Silly Baby

So we searched and searched and our baby is ASexual. We could not find anything out. We go back in 2 weeks. The suspense is killing me. Pray it will work out next time.

We got new numbers (Cell & Home) if you would like them, leave a comment and I will comment back with them. Also, I will be puttng up a post later tonight (hopefully), we have an appointment today to fing out if it's a boy or a girl. So, Stey tuned!!!

school, ward, & TV

So we are in our house. It is filthy; it's taking forever to unpack due to having to clean everything before stuff gets put away. Today is so humid. Who would have thought? The humidity is 87% right now. We do get great storms though. We officially have tv now with DVR!!! We might be able to survive now. Today is kinda cool (aside from the humidity) and I am mostly unpacked. We need to go get more shelves to adapt to this place. Other than that, Hadley has decided she hates school, her teacher is mean, and she gets very homesick at school. How fun is that to drop your baby off at school only to have her cry until you have to force her to go inside her class room? I make Jamie take her now. I would probably end up just bringing her home every time. I'm really hoping she will adapt to being gone all day a little better or I have no idea what I will do. She does come home in a good mood though, which gives me hope.
Here is a funny story, every time we move into a new ward I always think I will probably know someone in the ward that I knew growing up or something, so Sunday we went to church; side note: The ward is full of literally nearly dead (Lots of them) and newlyweds (some have only been married for about 3 weeks) we are the odd man out; anywho, this girl from the primary presidency came up to us and was asking about the girls and what classes they were in, she told me I look familiar, She so didn't look familiar to me, I told her I was from Idaho, so was she, I said I was from Idaho Falls, so was she, then she told me she was from this little area called Ammon, so am I, then we realized we went to elem. and jr. high together and we were in the same ward. As soon as she said her maiden name it all came to me. So, she and her husband came over Sunday night and the guys went to priesthood meeting while Andrea and I visited. It was so fun to reminisce. Then the guys came home and we did our usual Sunday night tradition, Popcorn and "Mormon Margaritas". It's so nice to know someone other than our own little family down here.
That is our lives thus far, I need to get Jamie off to school now and watch some of the dearly beloved, truly missed, "Boob Tube".

And now from the man of the house . . .

Actually, I'm fine with living down here. Aside from the biting insects, the roaches that we know are there but are just hiding, the B-52 beetles and gigantic devil mayfly-looking bugs that send my children into shrieking melt-downs, the ever-present ants, the residual heat in the concrete after the sun departs, the sun, the unrelenting heat, the fact that we lost over half of our freezer food because of the electricity fiasco (thank the Good Lord for not spoiling all of my deer meat), and the fact that I am starting school at a world-renowned university next week with courses including "Biotechnology in the Animal Sciences" (528) and "Molecular Endocrinology" (587). Regardless of the fact that the major reason the girls haven't returned to Idaho is our bank account balance, I believe things are only going to get better.

To support this idea, I give the following list:
1) Financial aid comes in next week, and I've got a lot of it.
2) We lost all of our frozen beef, but not the irreplaceable venison.
3) We lost all of our seafood minus a salmon fillet. That's the only seafood Rachel will eat.
4) It's the end of August. Temperatures may be around 100 degrees, but they are only going down from here.
5) The apartement has TWO freaking garages. I have my very own workbench.
6) Lizards eat bugs. There are at least two that live around the yard.
7) NO grass to mow. Just weeding the yard.
8) I'll be riding a bike to school, allowing for a very fit and handsomely tone Jamie.
8 1/2) Said bike can be used year-round.
9) We live right around the corner from Hadley's school.
10) Earning a PhD from this school bolsters my hiring potential.
11) Rachel is willing to move anywhere now (as long as it's not Arizona).
12) The coyote hunting is phenomenal here.
13) Gas is cheap (~$3.50/gallon right now).
14) The apartment lease is only one year, and we already survived a week.
15) Costco, Super Wal-Mart, Target, Fry's (cheap groceries) all in the same town.
16) Supportive friends across the country willing to read this blog and sympathize/empathize with us.

Yep, Tucson has been mediocre to us, but things are looking up. In fact, we have power now at the apartment, our new neighbors are nice, and we're getting a new AC unit - we found out it was broken when we turned it on. AND the coyote hunting is phenomenal here.

That's so funny, I forgot to laugh!

Guess where we are.....STILL IN THE D*@N HOTEL. I called everyone under the sun involved in this mess and I have been "promised" we can have our place tomorrow. I'm not getting my hopes up.

On a happier note, Hadley had a super, wonderful, exciting, spectacular first day. I only cried a little when I saw her when she came out of her classroom. She has been talking about it all day. She can't wait to go back tomorrow. She did ask me if she can sleep in a little later though. 6:00 is killing her. It will better when we are in our own place and don't have to drive the extra 15-20 minutes. I told her she could sleep until 7 the day after tomorrow. This has been a real challenge in our family considering 10 is a good time for everyone to wake up. We fall asleep so fast lately. My poor picked on little family.

I really hope my next "story" will be from a real home. Wish us luck.

P.S. I never thought I would say this but I really, REALLY, really miss Moscow. Gosh! I must not like it here very much.

Best friend gone for 8 hours a day.

Hadley's Official First Day Of School.

Today, I lost my best friend. I dropped her off at school and won't see her again until 2:15. How do moms do this? I thought it would be kind of easy, but it was almost impossible to leave her. Down here they don't go half days like to rest of the counrty does, Kindergarten is ALL DAY. That is pretty rough on a mom who thought, "I'll just look at it as if she went to a friends house to play for a couple hours" Nope, not in this God Forsaken Land some poeople call Tucon, where everything they do is completly messed up and backwards. She was so excited to go, she gave me a kiss good-bye and ran off to her classs smiling and laughing as I ran off to my car crying and sobbing. When did my baby grow up? Is it wrong to just keep her home and teach her what I know? I want so bad to just keep my girls under my wing for the rest of their lives. Now I know how my mom felt. I am counting down the minutes until I can go get her and make sure she had a great day. Maybe we can go out and do something fun after school. I know the time will come when I will be counting down the minutes until school starts but for now it is totally the other way around.

View into the tiny kitchen

View into the tiny living room. Where are we going to put everyting? Thank heaven for our 2 garages.

On another note. We are supposed to be getting POWER TODAY. I can't wait to get into my place (a week later than we expected). I'm going to spend all day and night unpacking. I'm so excited. it has been since May 1st that we had our own place. I think it's about time. I need to get packed up to leave this Hotel/temp. home. I'll let everyone know how the unpacking goes.

Just another update.

I've had a few comments about the baby, here is what I know. It is human. It has a heart and a spine and looks healthy. I was supposed to find out this week but with the move and everything, I still am looking for a doctor. Hopefully things will get better this week and I can find out soon. Wish us luck. (And pray for a boy (though I would be just as happy with all girls my poor hubby is in Hormone City))!

I probably should add...

I need to clear something up, not ALL of Bear Lake was awful, aside from seeing my family I havn't seen in over a year,i(it was soo good to see them) we were laying in bed that first night and we heard my cousin's husband yell, "I Love My Wife". My first reaction was to laugh then I thought, "What if they are um, you know 'messing around' and that is what he says?" Then I was sorta embarassed but he yelled it again and we realized he was just being Beau. A few minutes later I had asked Jamie to get me something ( I can't remember exactally what I asked him) and he yelled, "I Tollerate My Wife!" I thought Maggie and Beau were going to lose it. They told everyone the next day and it has kida become the family joke. So if you ever hear us scream, "I tollerate......", you'll know why.

The BIG Move So far...

We loaded up the UHaul Saturday with lots of help from friends and family then our friends took the truck and drove to Utah and stayed with her mom. We left Sunday afternoon and stopped in to see Daniel and Cass before we really took off. Then we drove to Taylorsville and stayed with our friends mom. Thanks by the way. Monday morning we ran over to see my cousin Letti and let the girls play a little while. Our first destination-Mesquite, Nevada. We did stop in St. George to do a little outlet shopping and got more school clothes. We made it to Mesquite in great time. So far, so good. Keep reading....

The UHaul pulling the pick up as we drove the van.
Jamie & Lulu in Vegas

We got to Vegas the next day even though the destination was Tucson, we are not too far away. We were going to see the reef show and saw the prices and turned around and got back on the road.

Avery & Hadley in Vegas.

We really wanted to do the Hoover Dam but with the Truck and the construction we would have had to unload everything, have it inspected, reload it and then we could be on our way. We decided to go around which took us into California on this super old highway with a million "Whoop-de-doos" poor Suzie got sick but it kept me awake.
We were so excited to see this sign. We got into AZ a little and called to make sure our place would be open and ready for us in an hour. (Mind you we were about 5 hours later than planned) It was not ready so rather than going and sleeping in our house with no electricity, then driving back to Phoenix to take Kevin & Suzie to the airport, we decided to stay with my uncle in Chandler. It was great he has a pool, the kids went CRAZY. The next day we took our friends to the airport and I got a call saying it takes over 24 hours after you make the call to have your power turned on so I call right away. They looked it up and told me because it had been off for more than 6 months we needed an inspection. (This was on Wednesday we were supposed to be in our place Tuesday) We decided to say in a hotel becuse we still had no power. That night there was a HUGE storm and it knocked out the power. IRONICALLY!!! There was a 5 foot deep river running down the road. It was down to about 2 feet deep by the time I was brave enough to go check it out. I talked to the manager and he comped us that night. The next day we went to the house to check things out and work some more and saw that our house is in 7 violations. We neede to get an electrition out to fix them then call the city for another inspection and then they will notify the power company to go ahead. I called the Landlord and told him everything and that I was very upset. I told hime we needed a hotel for the night, come to find out the way people work in this town we are in a hotel until Monday. It is Super HOT and humid thanks to all the storms. My poor girls are dying. hadley has to have shots tomorrow and she starts school on Monday. I was okay until I went to her school. When did she grow up? I'm not okay with this. We are supposed to have phone and everything by Tuesday so stay tuned for the rest of our move. On the plus side we get to swim anytime we want.
Look how red her face is, her wet gross hair and she is sitting in the front seat in the AC of the car and has been for about 15 minutes and is still dying. My poor girls are not going to make it. I want to move to Alaska after this.

Bear Lake 2008

Look how well the week began. We got to Bear Lake and set up camp and went down to the lake. The day was beautiful. Later that evening we went back up to camp and the wind came up. No camp fire that night. Which was fine one less day to smell like a fire. Avery, Katherine, & Hadley
Hadley & Lulu
Avery
Julie & Lulu

The next day was just as nice, boat rides, warm weather, cool water, swimming, family, family, family. After a day at the lake we went back up again then came the wind. Shortly after the wind came the PINK lightning and the rain. We ended up with a river running through the inside of our new tent after it had been ripped apart by the wind.
This is the sky just before the rain. Super Creepy. Needless to say, I had had enough and we left to go home at 10 that night. Which ended up being okay because we left for our big move on Sunday so we had one more day to prepare. That was our lovely trip to Bear Lake 2008.