Kaylie's first day of 2nd grade

Kaylie was very nervous to start school, luckily she was able to go in the day before and meet her teacher, see her classroom and see how excited the kids were to have a new student. That made things easier for the first day. She was even invited to a swimming party her second day of school. Kaylie made the twelfth student in her class and they even have a student teacher in her class this year. I love the student to teacher ratio.

The Branch

When we moved into our ward in White city, I thought it was so small, well I was wrong cause I had never been in a branch before. The first Sunday that I was there, there was 19 people. There is my girls and four other children, there is no youth. The primary children meet all together, there is no nursery. Church is only 2 hours, we have sacrament meeting first and then alternate from having Sunday school one week to relief society and priesthood the next. I love only having ti for 2 hours. I am hoping that I can get put in Primary so that I can change the way that they do things. we will see. We meet at the community center.
Anywho, there is me and one other younger mother and the rest are older people. Everyone is so friendly and so grateful to have us there, they have only had the branch for 2 years, before that they had to drive to Townsend, which is 42 miles away. The gal that has the other children is Keri, she is wonderful. She has 4 boys, one is in Kaylie's class at school. Our kids get along so well, and have so much fun together. Keri and I have so much in common including that we both got married right after high school. I am so grateful for her and that we get along so well. I am happy to have such a great Friend, plus her husband is the deputy sheriff so he knows everyone and everything, which is fantastic.

The house

I am not to fond of this house that we have to rent, but like I said it was either this house or stay in Medford till ours sells, and so far that is not going so smoothly. But here are a few pictures of the old place and our pet bee's i nthe tree out front. This house is so old that all th eplugs are only double prongs and we have had to get addapters to plug things in. Plus it is sinking down on one side, but the yard is huge and fenced, I will mention that is has not been kept up in years and it took us two days of mowing, hedging, sawing and edging to get it looking really nice.

But I am happy to ge here, the town is so nice, everyone is so friendly. Time moves at a slower pace here and it is so quiet and peacful, especially at night. I am going to be having a new phone number so for any of you that might wan that let me know, as well as my address.

Off We Go

We got our uhaul on Friday night, the 5th. Brett doesn't like to accept help from people, so we didn't ask anyone to come help us load, but I asked my brother Nick and he asked the missionaries. Thank goodness because we needed th help. Brett's parents came to they were so great, they stayed so late helping and came so early on Saturday and helped as well, thanks so much Patty and Devon, I love you guys so much. My parents took the girls to there house and watched them so that we were able to work, thanks so much to you also cause poor little Rissa was so confused.

Saturday the missionaries and Nick came again and we got everything loaded. Brett was great at getting stuff squished in there, we fit almost everything.

Sunday morning at the wee hours if the morn, we left. The trip went quit smoothly which is unusual for us cause we usually have some weird adventures. We stayed in Spokane Saturday night and then went the rest of the way on Monday.

We were all little sad to unload our stuff into our rental because we left our nice updated house to an old 1920's house that needs some serious work. But that was the only rental that we could find in the whole town and it is only temporary, so we unloaded everything by our selves. uggg.

Brett had to get back to work so he left on Wednesday back to Medford and I got the house all put together.

Goodbys

So in a last minute decision we are headed to Montana this weekend. I will miss everyone here and love them all, but I think that this is what will be best for my family at this time. I am not sure how long it will be until I have my computer back up and running so I will let every know when I get there.

Ode to Nate

My baby brother Nathan is 19 and leaves this Friday to go to Utah to the MTC. He is goign to Hoston Texas for his mission and will be gone for two years, we will miss him so much. He is a very cool person, very mature for his age. He is an awesome uncle to my girls and his other nieces and nephews. My girls love to play with Nate, he always takes time to play with them and it means so much to me. We will miss you Nate, and don't worry we will be sending you care packages quite often, just let me know what you need and want. good Luck to you and enjoy the weather there.

It had been a while

Well it has been a while since I wrote anything, so I am sorry. I got a job in the OB which I start in two weeks and I am so very excited. The OB is where I wanted to be so I waited for an opening and finally one came up. It is night shift, which since I don't drink coffee I have no idea how I will stay a wake. The only time I have stayed awake all night is when I or Kendra were giving birth, so we will see how it goes. But I think that I will love it, I get to do baby vitals and baths etc. etc.
So after four months of waiting for Brett he was finally able to take his boards yesterday and passed, of course. He was a little worried but he is really smart and I knew he would do fine. But now comes the realization that he will also be leaving in two weeks for Montana and the next time I will get to see him is a Thanksgiving. I already made myself cry by thinking about him being gone. I was hoping to be able to stay here and finish my schooling, but I don't know if I will be able to be away from him for so long. So we will see. I am thinking that maybe when he comes home for thanksgiving that we will go back with him. We found a really cheap house in town that I think we might just buy, then when ours sells we will rent that one and buy the one that we want.
So that has been about it, we have been waiting all summer and have not done much fun, other than boating which is a blast.