April 2022: Easter, Grayson's Program and all the things.

 Soon after our trip to Texas, it was time to prepare for Easter. 

First up, Grayson's whole 3rd grade had a recorder program. I was expecting to cringe and hate the entire thing, but this kids worked hard! Their music teacher is a magician! She had those kids sounding SO great! He had a part in the program that he worked to memorize. He continues to work so stinking hard a school! He loves reading and learning. I hope we can keep that alive. 

Tyler was not able to come home for Easter, but we keep things going we dyed eggs and matched for Easter Sunday. The kids had color coded eggs this year and they were everywhere! It's fun to watch them enjoy looking for them. 

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I have always loved music and I love to sing, but I love to listen to my children sing even more! Our Easter Sunday program was SOO amazing. So many great musical numbers that truly brought the Spirit. I am going to miss this loving ward. A lot. 

 

We were at Kenney and Teresa's for Easter Dinner. Grayson was so excited to sit at the adult table and eat his weight in rolls and ham. 

Papaw had the idea and Nana organized an Easter Egg hunt, with grunt work from Kendra. Each egg had a number which matched a prize on the table. Grayson was very bummed to miss out on the Dino cup, but VERY excited to get a couple dollars. Aunt Emma didn't need the cup and graciously passed it on to Grayson in the end. I LOVE the prize table idea, it will probably be featured next year! 

Even though Tyler was in Texas, we added him to our family Easter picture. Better ghetto, than never.  

The week after Easter, Tyler came for a visit. We get too busy spending time with him to get many pictures. To say the puppies have missed him in an UNDERSTATEMENT! We love to talk to Chancie. He's HILARIOUS

I found these cute pictures. But where is one of Grayson? I'll never know. 

 

Lyla accomplished a big girl goal and learned to ride her bike! She got in one big scrape and was almost too scared to try again. We took the bikes to Nana and Papaws. Their road is the BEST for learning to ride bikes. She quickly picked it up again, she's a Rockstar!

You can thank Teresa's blog for at least HALF of these pictures, because I'm still learning to remember to take them. We will be SUNK in Texas without her pictures!

In May, we move to TEXAS! 

Until next time...

April 2022: Spring Break In Texas

 Whew, April was a REALLY big month. We sold our house, visited Tyler in Texas to house shop and found a new home!

Tyler continues to explore the local cuisine and wildlife. We are READY to be reunited for Spring Break! He got to experience the Bluebonnets and he caught a baby turtle!

Tyler's company flew the kids and I out to Texas to house shop. We got to spend the whole week in Texas, during the kids' Spring Break. Tyson benefits paid for a whole week of housing and food while we were there! I was sick for a good portion of the week, but we got to be together as a family. My mom dropped us off at the airport and the kids were SUPER great during both of our flights. It was their first time on a plane. They did awesome for the three hours. Lyla fell asleep just until we landed and had to pee soooo bad. Thank goodness for kind people and kind flight attendants who helped us out. Turns out, I get air sick. Thankfully Dramamine kicked in. 

 

We all got our first taste of Buc-ee's. We've heard about it's greatness for a very long time and it lived up to the hype! We also got to see Sonic 2. The day we left, I was so sick. I had taken medicine, but it was not working. Leaving that day, by myself, was on of the hardest things I've had to do. Some last minute meds kicked in just as we were about to leave and thankfully we made it to Idaho Falls, where my mom took care of us while I perked back up. We were VERY sad to leave, but Tyler will get to visit soon and then we will all be together in Texas!

We looked at probably 15 houses. The market here is a bit cheaper, but there are still TONS of people looking at houses in our price range. Every open house we went to was PACKED with people trying to take a look and make an offer. After more than a few days looking we found the 1 home we felt comfortable making an offer on. It's the cutest, best home and we quickly fell in love. Our Real Estate agent was so great! She was VERY knowledgeable. She warned us not to LOVE a house because it would be very difficult to be the best looking offer. Too, late. We fell in love. It was just right for us. We spent a lot of time on the phone with her, trying to make our offer look it's best. She suggested we write a letter about our family and why we loved the home. She also got to know the seller agent and learned some tips to help us. We anxiously waited 24 hours after submitting our offer. That next day we learned that there were 26, yes, 26 offers on the house we loved. We also learned that we weren't the highest and best offer. However, our letter helped the seller pick us. The rooms are huge, the floors are new, and it has a bonus room upstairs. Don't let the blue cabinets scare you. They scared us, too, but are very nice in person. Best of all we have a yard about the same as we have in Utah (which let me tell you is HARD TO FIND!) and the pool stays! This are super excited for the pool. I love to tell this story because it is an other testament that we are supposed to be in Texas. We KNOW we are going to be where the Lord has a plan for us. We cannot deny His hand in this journey for our family. Without further ado, here is our new home! We hope to move and road trip home, Memorial Day weekend. 

Until next time...