thanks

so I just wanted to say thanks to mom and M for helping at the house and with the kids. It's been a longer process that i think we first intended, so i appriciate the willingness and support :) I picked out the shower curtain, so i needed to get the bathroom painted so everything can get installed. I called M this morning and asked if i could drop the kids off for a couple hours to get it knocked out. Ab thought it was great and couldn't wait to get there. Thanks again! How about sending me over a pic of A and A to post, M? love ya

e-mailing my friends

"Well, I think this Sunday will be our last in the ward. We are just moving to Nampa, so I don't feel like I'm really leaving. I have to come to Meridian most days(well, nights =) ) for work so I feel like I'm still gonna be around. Plus, I really feel like I have friends. Here. In this ward. So I know that i'm gonna stay in contact, and try to be better about e-mailing and calling, and coming to play groups and such.
We have a few friends that we still know from the ward we are moving back into. The other day while working on the house in Nampa, Jeramiah made a comment about wondering who will still be in the ward. "So are you planning on coming to church?" I asked him. He smiled and said, "Well at least the first week." I think it will be a blessing for our family. He went more than he ever has when we lived there, so maybe getting back into will be easier. It's a smaller ward, in an older neighborhood.
The house is smaller and hopefully our stress levels go down, and we can simplify, and within the year i won't have to work anymore. Then maybe life will resemble a little of what it was before.... lol. "

Wordless Wednesday

open for business

well, reading at least. Yes, I switched over to an open blog. No more signing in. I figure it's the least i could do, so it's less hassle to see that I haven't posted anything new ;) lol. /// We are in the process of moving back to the Nampa house. The place it all started hehe. The carpet and vinyl are getting installed tomorrow, and then we'll start taking loads over, and hopefully be sleeping there next week. "Preferrably on your nights off" says Jb, since it might be long nights with the kids getting use to the house. We feel very blessed, and humbled, that we have a place to go... and i am looking forward to simplifying. I do love this Meridian house that my husband built with his two hands, but it's always been overwhelming to me. I look forward to less time cleaning, and a backyard with a fence :) Hopefully I'll have more time, cross my fingers, to blog. I do miss it. But i feel like i've missed out on lots over the last 10 months.... of well. We're alive and healthy. And about to return to being Nampians! [so another post might be awhile ;) You still love me]