Finally..................

Well we are finally moved and back from our Yellowstone vacation. Now all I need is a Vacation from my Vacation Haha. It has been a complete whirlwind the past 2 weeks ... WOW~
Yellowstone was beautiful. We saw lots of animals which was Brecken's favorite part of the trip. Lets see we saw Elk, Bears, Wolves, Buffalo, Eagles, and even a really cute River Otter. It was so nice to go relax i guess if you call hiking an equivalent of 10 miles relaxing, anyways it was great. The outdoors are so refreshing and there is so much to do and see. We saw the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, Old Faithful ( lots of other hot pots and Geysers) and lots of beautiful country. We have decided to go back again in two years ( not next summer because hopefully we will have a new little one on the way or possibly already here). We all hated to come back to the real world, even little Brecken. He was so sad we couldn't go back in the Mountains, or go nite nite in the camper. :)
We hope to get out camping some more this summer as soon as we are settled in the new house.


I am posting Pictures from Yellowstone as well as a few showing bits and pieces of the new house!

Packing, Packing, and More Packing

Well moving into our new home is right around the corner. We close in just 7 days....wow we never thought the struggle with buying a new home would end, let alone be time to move.
I cant begin to understand how a Family of three can collect so much stuff in a 3 year span. I have been packing for the last 3 days and you can hardly tell at all. It seems like we have a million things to do, and not even close to enough time to complete it all.
Yesterday we had to run up to our new home to measure for blinds, and learn a few things from the previous owners, who by the way are very nice people.

I think my biggest worry in this huge transition is Brecken. I worry about how it will affect him. Will he understand or be totally confused, I guess only time will tell. At least he has us, the one thing that is remaining constant in this jumbled mess (and "his" puppies).

Camping Trip Numero Uno

Well we had our first successful camping trip this past weekend and it was a great! It was so nice to just get away from all of the stuff going on around us. We thoroughly enjoyed the fresh mountain air and the sounds of nature! Most importantly we enjoyed watching Brecken have so much fun. I don't think I have ever let him get as dirty as he did, but hey we are camping. We didn't see to much wild life, due to it being so hot. That's okay though it was still perfect. My mom came up for the whole day Saturday and we did a little bit of everything. I think we have found Brecken's favorite thing to do. When it came time to leave he was furious with us, and we paid for it when we got back to Great Falls because he was a Lil' Terror. It was a trip to remember though, but now time for reality and back to work.



If you would like to see some pictures I posted them in my DotPhoto Album......Click on the link to the left of the page towards the bottom.

Memorial Day Weekend Coming Up

Well today is my Friday even though it is only Thursday~
Brecken's day care is closed tomorrow for a so called family day and Josh works so I have to take the day off because i have no babysitter. Thats okay I love spending as much time with him as I can!
Josh works 2 of the days we are home this weekend, but it will still be busy!
Tomorrow I am headed out of town to have a well deserved break from Great Falls, Where Brecken and I are going, I am not sure yet.
Saturday will be the crazy day. I was asked to design a Golf Tournament logo awhile back and the tournament is Saturday. It is a Memorial Tounament for a dear friend of our family who passed away last year unexpecdily. It was very hard to deal and hard to beleive it has been a year. I feel very honored to have been able to design this logo and can't wait to see it on shirts, hats, signs, and more. Josh is golfing in the tournamnet tomorrow along with my dad and brother. Good Luck to them.
As for Sunday and Monday, we are sure what we are doing. I am not sure if we will have another open house or not, josh works that day so Brecken and I wont be doing to much, probably work out in the yard and enjoy the nice weather since it has been so cool and damp this past week. As for Monday we might go out of town and have a picnic or maybe go for a hike~only time will tell.

Uff Da

I would have never imagined my life being this crazy. We have so much going on and not enough time to deal with it all. Our house we are in right now; no offers on it yet so we dropped the price hoping that this weekend when we have an open house it will sell. There are just so many houses popping up all over for sale; hard to compete!
Also; we are in a state of waiting, Josh and I, waiting to find out if he is going off to Iraq in September. Yeah Iraq I know how awful, plus it will be for almost 6 months! All I can think about is how hard this will be for Brecken beings he is to small to understand. He loves his Daddy and it is going to break his heart not being able to see him for that long. They are asking for volunteers first, so hopefully enough people will volunteer and Josh won't have to go.
On the other hand it is beautiful outside today and I can't wait to get out of work and go spend time with Brecken and Josh at home. I think we are going to do a little planting tonight, Brecken loves helping us out in the yard, and playing with the dogs. Work isn't going by quick enough today!!!

Quotes For the Day

The clouds have broke and the Sun is out...

Well it is ours finally OURS; no more problems; this here yeah to the left has been a thorn in my side for the past few weeks and finally it has been removed and we are pain and stress free, or so we hope.

We have debated over this one non-stop but Josh and I have came to an agreement that it is what we want and for the price and area, we cant beat it. Every other home we looked at was either outdated or a dump and needed work and our money. We are Happy! We both are excited to raise our family here and grow old together. We hope to have lots of get-togethers with the ones we love. This is our dream and it is finally ours, it took a lot of prayers and tears, but now all we see is sunny skies! We are blessed.