Hello Idaho!

 The Home

What a week! On Saturday we made it safely to our new home and unpacked the moving truck so we could run to an appliance store to get a new fridge and then moved that in too. Most of the boxes lived in the garage until Monday when I had enough energy to bring in the rest of them. The kitchen and organizing where the boxes go so I could mass open them was my main focus and was finished so I could start the process on Tuesday. Chris was at work so it was my job to o 90% of the unpacking, shopping for curtains, and entertain the kids by taking them to new places. We were able to go to church and meet some people and get settled in although there was a worry for a second that we went to the wrong ward, we are right on the border and did the right one after all. We also already had a few visitors including the Relief Society presidency, some of the people to help with home stuff, and a friend from Chris's high school that lives a town or two over. This was my first time meeting her in person, but the girls had fun playing with her kids and we plan to meet up for some days at the park this summer because we wanted to know where some fun splash pads were. They've played in our half-dead backyard with the slip-n-slide we found in our stuff though and we are getting our sod replaced.

The City

We found our new library on Tuesday and learned about free lunches at the park for the summer that we went to right after. The main reason for the library was because I needed internet and it has been a headache finding a service provider who is in our new subdivision. We have gone 3 times this week to do some internet borrowing and the girls get to play in the kid's area! We also got to visit a park within biking distance for the girls once during the day and then with Chris the next day after he got off work. The other park we picnic at is farther so we drive, but there are always other kids to play with which is fun. I've shopped at several different stores, been to the UPS store, and driven past other interesting places we will be excited to visit over the years. There is a lot of construction in our area because of how much this area is expanding, but that will only make it better in the future. I can now get to certain places right in town without the GPS and it feels good to not have to rely on it every time for the simple places.

The Girls

Claire and Shay have so much fun in our new huge house and have tried to spread their toys out all over the place. The first thing they claimed was the crawl space under the stairs as their little house as well as the dining room right outside that door. I took it back on Wednesday and moved their toys up to their room and the loft at the top of the stairs which has been a mess until Thursday night. They earned a quarter for picking up all their toys and putting them on the shelves I set up. Claire also lost her first tooth this week! She complained about her teeth hurting when she eats sometimes and when I checked her mouth Thursday morning I saw one of the adult teeth peeking through the bottom and her baby tooth almost falling out already! It was gone by the end of the day and she got her first Toothfairy visit which I guess we made a toy and the rest of the teeth will be money. Shay is jealous because the tooth right next to the one Claire lost is loose now too and Shay thought it was her turn I guess. But Shay had a big week too because she got her ears pierced finally! I've been planning this since she was like 4 months old but never got around to it but there was a Claire's store on our walk out of Walmart and when I asked her she wanted it. It was a surprise for Chris even though he has said he agrees, we dumped it on him when he got home from work and he asked so many questions about how well she did.

The Trip

Chris is holding down the fort at home for the next week because I am in traveling mode to visit my parents in Alabama! I started by coming to Pocatello for a 5K race yesterday and then will take the girls on the longest road trip of our lives so we can spend time with my side of the family. Chris will fly out there in a week to join us for our family reunion stuff and we will drive back together. They had a sleepover last night with their cousin Arianna and we are traveling all day. I did get a chance to clean my car yesterday because we are leaving it with family and borrowing a new car with much better gas mileage so it will be nice to have a clean car when I get back. It does make me nervous because I'm driving a long way and I will be much more careful with this car.