It is your

REACTION

to adversity

NOT

the adversity itself,

that determines how

YOUR LIFE'S STORY

will develop.

~Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I am just thrilled that I can use blogger again! Not that I have much to say or very much time to say it...it's just BUGGED me that blogger wouldn't work!

I found a place to rent in Snowflake! What a relief to know we have someplace to live in 4 weeks! It is actually Brandon's grandma Flake's old house. It has been remodeled and redecorated. It is rented out by the Bed and Breakfast (which is the house my FIL grew up in) as a vacation rental. They are willing to rent to us month to month. I wonder if we can work out a deal to include breakfasts too.??? (j/k) Jo Anne and her husband are very nice. They donated two nights at the B+B for the fundraiser auction we had for my dad last year. ANYHOW. Back to Brandon's grandmas's house. It is fully furnished. I haven't been inside yet but I have looked at pictures online and it is super cute! Very welcoming. I will have to child proof things a bit though. But, since it is fully furnished, we can put all our stuff in storage and just take some clothes and books and things! The back yard is fenced in...PLUS...it is right across the street from our favorite Mexican food restaurant! I am sort of excited to move again now!

I don't know what the deal is with my computer and blogger. This is the first time I have been able to post since my last post ONLY because blogger hasn't let me! BUT...it is what it is.

The summer is over! Can you believe that!? It was a busy one!


Like I said in my last post, we started out our summer the week before school got out by spending the week in California! We stayed in a condo across the street from Disneyland and spent 3 days going to Disneyland and CA Adventure! We had SO MUCH fun and can't wait to go again! I have actually dreaded taking the kids to Disneyland. I don't even like to take them to Wal-Mart! But, this trip was ALL about them. Brandon and I had tons of fun too. We also got to meet up with Kayla and her girls, My Auntie Bev, Uncle Larry and cousin Kristian to go to Cabrillo Beach which has a little museum and touch pool where you can touch all the tide pool creatures. If the tide is low, you can go out on the rocks and visit the tide pools. We used to go to Cabrillo Beach when I was little and LOVED the tide pools. The tide was high when we were there, so we couldn't go out on the rocks...but we had fun anyways. The kids played in the water....but I think my girls favorite part was using the bathroom showers! They were surprisingly clean and had warm water! It was fun to go to Cabrillo Beach with my aunt and uncle again! We also met up with Eric, Kim and Cooper and all of us went to an Angels game. It was fun. Mostly we ate snacks...because that's what you do at ball games right? We got to visit my grandparents too. That's always interesting. They live in a retirement community. Their house is a bit small for 4 children...plus it's full of expensive antiques, so it's hard to relax. We managed to stay an hour without any casualties! I always love to visit my Grandma and Grandpa. They make me feel like I am so loved!

SO....that about sums up our CA trip. ( I am sure I missed a lot of things....)

After school was out, Brandon and I geared up and headed out to be a Ma and Pa for our Stake Pioneer Trek. We had SO much fun. (I don't know what was better, DL with our real kids....or trekking with our trek family!) We really loved every minute of it...blisters and all! Brandon and I grew to love each of those kids and hope to keep in touch with them. I love running into them around town and getting a big hug! :)

A few days after getting home from the trek....I got a familiar suspicious feeling that lead me to take a pregnancy test....which turned out to be positive. We were glad to have gone to Disneyland and had our family vacation already because up until the past two weeks....I have felt sick pretty much all day and night.Now the sickness comes and goes in little waves. If past experience proves correct, I will be feeling all the way better in another week or two!  I have made a trip to Show Low every week since the beginning of June to get a Progesterone shot. I just had my last one this past week! (woohoo!) I am about 15 weeks pregnant. My ultrasound is set for Oct. 2nd!

The girls started school Aug. 9th. Kaitlyn is in 4th grade and Adelin is in 1st. Weston is also going to Busy Bee Preschool twice a week. They all are loving school and doing well. Adelin has gotten 100% on all of her spelling tests so far! Kaitlyn has Mr. Boone for a teacher. This is her first time with a male teacher. It's a little different for her, but she seems to enjoy his class. She, of course, is doing well in school. I wish learning new things came as naturally to me as it does to her! School starts at 7:50 a.m. this year. I was dreading that...but, it's turned out fine. I had told the girls that they'd have to take the bus this year....but.....I haven't made them. Mostly because we are doing good at getting to school on time....plus, the bus comes at 7:15 a.m.....way too early!

In other news. We found out that the Paper Mill that Brandon works for will be shutting down. Brandon has a job there through January.....but we have already sold our house...(the one we are living in). It closes on September 27th. SO....we get to pack things up and moving. We just don't know where we are moving to! We are praying that Brandon will get a new job and we can just move to wherever that new job is. Otherwise, we will have to make a temporary move to someplace here in Snowflake until January (or a new job is found)...and then move again. FUN TIMES!!! We know that this is something Heavenly Father wants us to go through and learn from and that He will "open the windows of heaven" and pour out a blessing upon us. It is comforting to know that we are doing our best to live worthy of those blessings.

That's all I have time to blog about!