Always playing catch up..

Here are Annie's kindergarten pictures!!

This little stinker does not like to take pictures unless it's her idea. She got to ride the bus for the first two weeks, but now I take her and pick her up everyday. It's the hardest to drop her off. She walks toward the playground, all by herself, among a bazillion other elementary kids, looking for a friend. They get to play until the bell rings. Today, I watched her for a minute, and she found a friend pretty quickly. It's still so hard to watch my little girl grow up.. and have to experience a little fear.. a little anxiety.. a little loneliness. Man, it's so hard, but I guess that's how she grows to become the wonderful person I know is in there. What a sweetie. I'm so proud of her. She acts like it's no big deal!

Now, some random pics of the kids..



They got a hold of my camera..




While my brothers were here, we got to goof around a little when they weren't working their guts out. Tom stuck my exercise ball under his shirt, and he looks like he's expecting triplets!!
Ornela painted the girls' nails.. what a sweetie!
This is Dave. He framed our house and did all the finish work. I'm so disappointed you can't see the enormous staple sticking through his middle finger!!!!! He shot himself, and had his brother pull it out... wish I had a better camera because this one kept turning off right when I'd try to take a good picture. Good thing I had a first-aid kit handy..
Matt came home late one night after a loooong day of painting. Makes me remember when he'd come home everyday looking like this. Lucky for him he's got an unbelievable job now... lucky for me too!

The girls ended up going to sleep together, and I posted this because I think it's so funny the way they can sleep in any sort of position. If anyone has seen the way Jenna sleeps, you can testify to that. She sleeps with her legs crossed, and then just bends her body in half and lays down on top of her legs... crazy girl! This is for you too, Jen. I absolutely loved seeing Logan sleep with a firetruck on his head!! Hey, and ya, that is a monkey-bum you see in this picture... I can't help but think of Jake's game of seeing who dares to say the words the loudest among a group of strangers... "MONKEY BUM!"

Pretty soon, we got to pack up all our stuff (alllllll our stuff. way too much.) This is the Big old U-haul (ya, you read right.. we actually rented a truck instead of using somebody's horse trailer.. awesome!) The picture isn't too great, but the kids had so much fun riding their bikes up and down this ramp... Collin just loved crawling up and trying to slide down it.

Then we said good-bye to our "old" house..

And said a sweet "HELLOOOOO" to our new one!!! This is my favorite house we've built so far! I am going to miss the trees and grass, however.. OH WELL!Can you see this tile job I did?? All of this is much cuter in person so you're all going to have to come to Rexburg to visit us!
Love my neighbors..
Love my siding..
Love my door..
Love my cabinets..
Love my rock..
Love my house!