where are my pants?

I was sitting in my room on the computer, when Jacob came running in and shouting something (At 2.5 years sometimes he's really hard to understand.)
Anyhow, he runs in the room and says"where my pants?" about 3 times.
I finally looked up at him and found this.
Apparently the girls had gone to play outside, and he knew he needed pants on to join them..lol

Our rental

A few of you have asked about our rental here in SF. It was quite the transition from a 3100 sf feet house to a 1200 sf house, let me tell you!
I like the house and am grateful to have a roof over my head, and our rent is actually not that bad for this area. My only beef with this house, is the kitchen. It is a galley kitchen. You walk through it (let me rephrase that) you step through it. It only take about 3 of my steps and you are out the kitchen, into the garage!
there is one area of counterspace that is about 2.5 feet long. I'll share some pictures with you. Dont you love the mini pantry and the counterspace between the fridge and stove? lol...

luncheon with the ladies.

Today was a nice day. Two ladies that live in the cul-de-sac behind us, had 40th birthdays in December, so they all got together and had a luncheon for them. It was quite fun to sit around and listen to the ladies talk, and get to know them better.
Two of the ladies are in the Primary Presidency, and I could clearly see why. They are both very fun, and outgoing. It was nice to take a break from un-packing and cleaning.
The satellite guy and the garage door guy came today to replace the non-working units, so now I have my fav shows back, and I can drive into my garage!
Yea- because the wind is blowing and it's cold today. Tomorrow we are expecting snow. My kids are still amazed that the snow from 2 weeks ago is still on the ground. I keep telling them it's hard and crusty by now, but they just can't wait to get out in it. I'm sure my neighbors think we are strange. Yesterday about half of the Achievement Day girls came over to pick up Lydia for AD. It was quite the group-like 20 girls total! It's nice that the church is only 1 house down from us.

Tonight the Elders Quorum Presidency is coming over to meet us...uh-oh! No, people seem really nice here, sometimes I wonder if its fake...lol..
I still miss Arkansas and my friends, but we are slowly acclimating here.
More later...

first day of school

Well, we made it through the first day. After a confusing drop-off this morning, I think I finally understand the procedure..lol. Lots of rude Utah drivers though, wont go there for now.

Lydia has joined the Drama club. She is really excited, and made a new friend today at school. Also a neighbor girl invited her to a birthday party on Thursday. Tomorrow night is Achievment day from 4:30 to 5:30pm. The AD leader is very nice and there are actually 2 leaders. It cracks me up that there are 2 people for every calling!

Kate enjoyed her first day and is anxious to go back tomorrow. Lydia said one boy kept saying to her" hey Arkansas!" she didnt like it of course. I kept telling her that if he really didint care, he wouldnt say anything.

It hit me today, I now know we are in Utah. Derek was outside shoveling the sidewalk and 3 kids stopped to help him break up the ice/snow combo and shovel it off to the side. They worked for like 30 minutes and got the job done.

we made it

Wow, what an adventure.
We started out Sunday morning about 7am and drove straight through to Santa Rosa, NM. Even with the time change we still didn't arrive until about 8pm, which meant 14 hours on the road. I have to tell you, it about killed me driving that long and not having anyone to switch out on the driving. The caravan pretty much went like this, Derk in the front with the uhaul and trailer, me with the kids in the van, and Damon behind us in Derek's car. We all three had our own vehcile to drive because of a mix up on the moving van..oh well. We made it with absolutely no weather problems, or vehcile problems, except for Derek locking the u-haul keys in it, at Weatherford Oklahoma. He was pretty upset, but since our moving van was new, it was under warranty, and Ford came out and unlocked it for us. It was only about an hour delay, so I was grateful for that. Our second day we drove form Santa Rosa to Moab Utah. I was sick that day with a killer headache, and intestinal problems. In Farmington NM, we stopped for lunch, and I was so sick I just went an laid down in the van. I really felt I couldn't go on, but we did persevere, and made it to Moab. I was so happy to stop, you just don't know! The next day was relatively easy drive of 4 hours, to Spanish Fork. Let me tell you though I-70 is desolate!
So, now we are here in Spanish, day 2 of being in rental house. It's not bad, typical rental, white walls, fairly ugly carpeting, but it could be way worse. It's a very quiet neighborhood, as a matter of fact 7 men showed up form Cambridge Ward to help usmove in. I met my neighbor Sister Evans(cant remember her first name) that's what Ward list are for...lol...everyone was very friendly and helpful. I even found a lady in my Ward who teaches Cello! She plays with the Utah Valley Symphony.
Today we are off to get a fridge( found one for 50$ online,perfect!) and groceries and to take the girls down to the school to have a look around. Then off to take the Uhaul back and get some lunch and check out the local Library.

Will share more later.