Transplanted and growing!!!

It's a looong story. The story behind why it has taken so long to blog. It's because of moving and trying to get settled, dealing with getting our internet set up. That took weeks on it's own, and getting pictures from my Mom to add to the blog. Any way let's just get to the meat and potatoes of things.
We have been ripped from our roots in Utah and planted in the dirt of Arizona. Basically we have been TRANSPLANTED and we love it here so much we are GROWING and thriving. I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am here. It was really hard to leave friends and family but it was well worth it. Plus I'm not working so that helps a TON!

While we were packing up in Utah we let the kids have some friends over for one last time!













































There were a TON of kids over and they brought gifts. It was soooo cute!!

Then we took Shayna to say good bye to her ballet class. We took her teachers some roses and each of the girls in her class got a sucker.



















Brittons soccer team brought him a jersey signed by all of the kids on is team. He loved it! It was very thoughtful of his coach and team to do this for him.










On our way to Arizona. A very exciting, sad, happy moment.










Britton making sure his mattress was secure enough to travel.










giving Doc loves. Even though he came with us he needed his last Utah hugs.









On the road!!!




























We arrived in Arizona on Thanksgiving evening. We didn't get to have a nice family Thanksgiving meal but it was nice that my Parents, Grandma and Brother were able to come along with us and help us with the big move!!

We got the truck unloaded the next day and started trying to get settled in.




























Our lovely no grass backyard....the kids are struggling with that.









We had to get both of the kids new beds because the beds they had wouldn't fit in their new bedrooms. We downsized big time.....


















While trying to settle in we had to find a school for the kids to go to. We finally found a school I could send my kids to. It took some work and we had to prove that they were worthy to go to that school by sending in school grades from their old school. Thank goodness I have smart kids, they got in with no problem!!
First day of school in Arizona.....December 1st and they are in short sleeve shirts.....CRAZY!!!



























While every one was still in town we decided to do some exploring.









Downtown Prescott.



























We had to check out our local lakes.....


















We went to the gingerbread house competition to see all the creative houses. My Mom and Grandma loved it. The kids and I were pretty board.



























And of course we had to go to lunch and dinner several times.



























So far we are loving it here....sorry it took so long to get the blog updated. (Hi Aunt Vick and Uncle Ron) Stay tuned for much, much more.......