Yes we are sitll alive.

Okay, well it has been almost three months since I last posted, where did the time go? This is just a quick note to say that yes we are still alive, and yes for those wondering we are still moving to California. Right now we have been living between Utah and California, well mostly the kids and I. Ze has pretty much been there since the end of May. It has been harder than I thought it would not having a house for a while and imposing on relatives. However, I am so grateful to wonderful parents on both our sides for letting us impose on them. Hopefully by the end of this month our lives will have settled down and we will be a little more settled as a family. We have had so much going on these past few months, the best thing being, my little brother was married on July 31! So that will be next post, and I will try to do it soon. Maybe even later today who knows, just for you Ashley there will be pictures.

We are moving, again, and yes it is really going to happen.

Many of you know what a roller coaster our lives have been this last year.  We are moving, we are staying, we are moving, staying, anyway you get the picture.  Well, in December when Ze took a job here I thought it was pretty much a done deal and we would never be moving back to California.  So I decorated my room, picked out paint colors for downstairs, and then I dared to unpack the boxes that had been sitting in our garage since the fall when I thought we were moving the last time.  And, as I unpacked them I thought watch Ze come home and tell me "Thanks, for unpacking but we are moving,"  well it wasn't that exact day just two weeks later.  

However, this time it is happening, our house is rented, we are moving out on Tuesday, so the renters can move in on Friday.   All of this happened in the two weeks since Ze told we are moving.  I guess when things are right they are right and everything just falls into place.  I will spend the summer back and forth between here and California, and we won't be moving into our house there until the end of august.  It is bittersweet, but actually I am really happy to be moving back, because it feels so right.  (Actually I have felt we should move there for the last year, I have just been waiting for Ze to feel the same way)  I am so excited to be back in our old ward, and to be around our friends again.  I will miss my family terribly, as will my boys.  Thankfully my mom works for the airlines so we will see them quite often I am sure.  

So for those of you here in Utah, we will miss you!  And for those of you there in California, we can't wait to see you and be there again.

Bedroom cont.

Here are some more pictures with the window treatment up and some odds and ends.  

My awesome dad made the box for my windows, and I LOVE it.  And I really love it because my curtains were on sale at target for $17 each and the wood and materials were only $30!  It came to less than half of everything else I had looked at.  THANKS AGAIN DAD!!!!
And a note out about my sticks in the corner by the T.V. everyone had bets on how long it would take my kids to turn them into weapons, happy to say, it has been a week and so far they haven't touched them!
You probably can't see but in the far corner we have a new nightstand from Ikea.   I wasn't sure I was going to like it so I only bought one to see if we would, but also because I thought I would save money and just paint the one that you can see.  However, Ze LOVED it and wants us to have another one WAHOO!  So any suggestions of what I could put on his, because I need something in that corner, would be great!

Well, after five years of marriage, I finally put up some wedding pictures in our room. I think this is my favorite part, and is defiantly Ze's.  
This is the material I will be making some European pillows out of for my bed.  It finally got here yesterday so, I will post pics with those one when i get them made. All and all I am really happy with our room, I LOVE it.  It has made a total difference in me being more organized, keeping things cleaner and I want to spend any free time I have in it.  I have to say thanks to my husband for painting, it for me, he did most of it. Thank you for being such a wonderful husband(Even did it on a day he had off) And a special thanks to my Dad who built the headboard and window valance.  I love you and am so grateful for all that you did.

Our next major purchase for our room will be a new fan!  One that is less of an eyesore

Bedroom pics

So this is what the room looked like after we painted and moved the bed.  I so wish I had remembered to take before pictures!  Well we got rid of the ugly navy blue curtains, and move our bed to the other wall.  And we finally put together the dresser we had bought in August when we thought we were moving.

This is the AWESOME! headboard my dad built for me!  Isn't he the best Dad ever!  It was even better than I had pictured it would be in my head.  THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

I'm on a MISSION

Okay, so I have decided it is time to decorate our bedroom. In our last house Ze and I did something to every room, painted, added, replaced, etc. EXCEPT, our bedroom. We always said that we would get to it, well we didn't. I was starting to go that direction in this house, but I have decided to STOP and do ours. So this month I am going to be working on doing are bedroom. I will post pictures when I am finished, I am hoping that by putting this in writing I actually do it. So good-bye ugly Navy curtains from the previous owners.

MMMM Frosting

This is the first of a couple posts, (of course all out of order) it has been a busy week here.  

Enjoy! 

Gavin loved the frosting off his aunt's birthday cake. He kept say "mmm yum, I like this." I am loving this stage he is in. If I could keep him here for a little while longer I would. Actually I am loving him and Drake together at these ages. Everyday I love them more and more and am so grateful for them.

Happy Birthday Tia FE

Marilia's (my sis in law) birthday was on Sunday, she turned 24!  She came up for dinner and cake.  I was going to make her a cake, but she bought her own.  Hello, you aren't supposed to buy your own cake!  It was a lot of fun.  We love having her here, and the boys LOVE their tia (chi-a) Fe.  I am so grateful to have such a great sister "in-law" and to have such a good relationship with her.   I just love her to death, and love having her around.  I am so grateful for all the help she gives Ze and I with the boys, and for being such a good Aunt to them.   I know she needs to be out there having fun, but I so miss her when she doesn't come up for a couple of days.  WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!