SummerTimeBeginnings

Well, we did do some vacationing this summer and I guess I should get caught u on that....I am still missing my camera so these are the pictures from my sister in law and mother in law.

We started out our summer vaca in Idaho for my Brother in laws wedding. It was so nice and lots of fun to get to see everyone there! We had a scare on our way out there though....right before we got into Idaho we had to stop at an urgent care because Adalie spiked a 104.5 fever out of nowhere. She had been sick the week before with a bladder infection so we thought it might be that again. I have never seen her fever get that high before so I was really worried. They ran lots of test and even took a white blood cell count, but couldn't find anything wrong and just told us to keep giving her Tylenol to reduce the fever. She ran a fever for the next three days, but it was still never explained. It was weird and I worried the whole time...

The family did convince me however to go rafting with them on her last day of fever while my sister in laws mother watched the kids. Although I felt bad leaving my poor sick baby, I will admit we had fun. It was WAY cold but awesome rapids!

I absolutely LOVE white water rafting. Brett and I went on a really cool white water rafting trip while we were on our honeymoon.

We also went our to the boardwalk in IF where the temple is and it was, as always, beautiful. It reminded me of my old stomping grounds at good ole' BYU - I..

The wedding was beautiful. Outdoors and sunny. All the nieces and nephews walked down the aisle and it was Adalie's job to walk with little Nicky who was holding the rings. She was so cute and even held her little arm out like a princess down the aisle... lol.
It was so sweet to see Derick and Katie (the couple) so happy. I love weddings....it is always a reminder to me how lucky I am to have Brett...

The next day we followed Brett's mom and dad out to Colorado to stay with them for a few days as another part of our vacation.....will continue with that one tomorrow so you don't get bored reading this post half way through!

Mommy...there's a dolphin in our backyard!

The other day I was cleaning up in Adalie's room (still not that organized from unpacking). She was playing by her window and all of the sudden said "Mommy, there is a dolphin in the backyard!" I played along and was asking here all sorts of questions like what does it look like? Is it a mommy dolphin? Where did he come from? She had all sorts of fun things to say about it and I thought how wonderful her imagination is.
Well, after she went to bed I was cleaning up in the dining room. I went to close the blinds and guess what I saw in our backyard. A dolphin. I started laughing hysterically. Someones dolphin floaty had landed in our backyard. She really was seeing a dolphin in our backyard....

Staring Out In Des Moines

It has been hard to want to post anything because I cannot find my camera and don't want you to get bored with my post, but I realize I REALLY need to start writing some stuff down because there is SO much and I can add pictures of it later.

Well first off, if you didn't catch it before, we are here in Des Moines, IA where Brett has started the DPM program here at Des Moines University. I love our place so far. It is a cute little two bedroom, 2 bth town home with AC (woot woot!!), a backyard and playground for the kiddos and TONS of nice people. And I am LOVING not having upstairs neighbors. We are in a small student branch with about 5o other families and so far, everyone has been really nice and sweet to us. There are about a million and one kids around and for proof of that, our small branch has 4 nurseries!! I haven't been in a student ward for almost 5 years now and I have forgotten how ridiculously LOUD sacrament meeting is! Babies and Toddlers running around everywhere lol It is a fun hing to see. Our Brnach Pres seems really nice and I already have a calling....a nursery leader. Every other person in the branch is a nursery leader so I wasn't too surprised to get the calling. I will be honest, I have mixed feelings about it is that bad? I feel like I just got her and really need to get to know the sisters in the branch but I will be cut off from them in nursery all the time. Also I REALLY enjoy Sunday school and I will miss be able to go to that...ugh it is wrong for me to complain I know but I am a little sad. But I know they asked me for a reason and I will do it.

Anyway, it took forever to get unpacked! It also didn't help that the kids got sick the first night here and have been for a week. Roseolla showed up and the bumps are just now starting to be less noticeable on them....so that helped with the lack of time to get things organized and settled. Good news though, we are on our last load of the 10 loads of laundry that needed to be washed haha. I still feel like we have so much to do. Not some of my favorite things about moving...finding Dr's....learning new roads....where to shop...fixing the kids routine....all sorts of fun stuff.

I need to find my camera....I haven't blogged a whole month of our life and so much happened it it!!

We Made It!

Almost a month on the road, living out of a suit case and eating TONS of fast food....we made it to our new home in Iowa. It is crazy how much stuff we have to do just to get settled and I have a million things to post about, but it's sad it is still going to have to wait a bit. I tried to spend some time catching myself up on everyone's life via facebook and blogging but didn't have the time to leave any comments. Even now I am ignoring Adalie jumping at my feet saying she is thirsty and Cason's poopy diaper....better get on that. More coming soon...

We're Still alive

Just been living on the road for a week or so lol. I have TONS to write and catch up on one day soon. but for now, we're all happy and healthy!!

3 Days

To Pack. To clean. Get kids into Dr (Cason's last well child before we leave and poor Adalie has a bladder infection). Clean out the car. Wash our clothes. Clean. Clean. Clean..... and Say GoodBye.