Our New Place

Well, here is our new place.  We are renting this home for 6 months and hopefully in the meantime, we can find a house we can afford to buy, depending on how well the business is doing.  Ryan is getting everything set up for his business, just about 1/2 a mile down the road from us.  He hopes to have his doors open by the beginning of April or earlier.  The weather has been beautiful here in Boise and thankfully, no snow until today.  Watching the snow come down, I am realizing that Boise snow storms have nothing on Idaho Falls, or Utah storms, but if you know me at all, you know that is a great thing!  The kids are handling the move very well.  They are a little more clingy than normal, but that is to be expected.  They are loving having a backyard, which we enjoyed the other day, sitting outside in the warm sun eating pretzels as Preston is showing here.  The first day we moved in, I heard banging and laughing and went and found them in the playroom closet with the door closed.  They had to test out the closet to see how well their cars worked in there.  Preston is in a big bed now and is doing really well with it too.  And even though it is cooler weather here than in Texas, my kids still love running around the house in just a diaper!  I am loving having some extra room (we have 2 extra rooms, hooray!), a backyard to let the kids play in, a nice view of mountains down the street, a kids room that has space in between their two beds that they can't touch each other, a garage, which makes bringing groceries in, so much easier than a long walk to our old upstairs apartment, and a nice, open kitchen with great appliances (that cook chocolate chip peanut butter cookies very well - Preston had fun helping me make them)!!  Overall, it is nice here.  We have some exploring to do, but we will get the hang of things eventually.  We took a drive to Bogus Basin (the ski hill here) last night in which Mikayla was able to get acquainted with the icy, muddy parking lot (she took a nose dive and had mud on her forehead covering her eye and all down her pant leg!).  PLEASE feel free to come visit anytime!  :)    Thank you to all who helped us these past few months with places to live, money, clothes for the kids, help moving out and in and listening ears and hugs.  We couldn't have done it without you all!!  Miss you all and love you!