We've moved!

After a LONG 4 months in limbo, we finally received word that we are moving to Kennewick, Washington. Ben was offered a job as a firefighter/medic with the Kennewick Fire Dept. We are very excited for this new adventure for our family. I did take pictures on the big road trip up to Washington, but my camera was lost along the way somewhere. Sad day! For the time being, I only have pictures from cell phones.

We felt so loved from our friends in Arizona. I think we had three going away parties, one was a surprise for me. We have the best of friends in Red Rock. Our family definitely grew a lot from living in Arizona and we will never forget our time there. We loved living in Red Rock and being in the Red Rock ward. Such amazing people live there!

We started our new journey on Sunday, April 15th and after driving thru Las Vegas, Utah, Idaho, and Oregon, we finally arrived in Washington on Wednesday, April 18th. My kids loved staying in hotels. They were all awesome on such a long car trip. Ben, Addi, and Cam rode in the Uhaul. I drove the van with Brooklyn and our dog, Roxie. I was so sick from a horrible sinus infection which kept getting worse on the road and turned into fever with chills and aches. I don't recommend moving or traveling when you feel so sick! Thanks to my awesome sister for suggesting to take the best medicine, Allegra-D :)

Our Uhaul and van were stuffed full. After 6 hours unloading the Uhaul into our storage unit, while trying to entertain 3 children, we headed up to Spokane. The girls and I will be living in Spokane while Ben is at the fire academy for the next 3 months. He drove to Kennewick yesterday to start today. This is the easy week! Addison also started school. She was so excited to have a new class. Some kids from church are in her class too.

The girls asleep in the Uhaul

Playing at the playground at Addi's new school (Did you notice the grass and trees?!)

We were able to go on a date before Ben left town

Day with Aunt Marjory

We got to spend the morning with Marjory. We went to the zoo and ate at one of our favorite restaurants, Swensen's. The girls had a lot fun hanging out with their Aunt. It was very nice to see her one more time before we leave.

 "I am the Statue of Liberty"

My awesome kids over the elephant fake poop piles

Children's Museum

We had a nice family day spending time at the Children's Museum. We always love going there!

Our family

Caemlyn drew a picture of our family today. I love it!! She even included our dog, Roxie.

My little girl is 5!

Caemlyn turned five years old! She has been so excited for her birthday to come and has been counting down the days for months. We love having this little girl in our family. She brings us so much joy and she is sweet and caring. For Caemlyn's birthday dinner, she chose cereal. I loved it! It was a major sugar-fest. To go along with the cereal theme, I made rice krispie treat cupcakes. We had a great family celebration!

Birthday girl!

Aunt Mandy and the birthday girl

Cereal bar!

Enjoying some cereal

Wearing her new dress and shoes

Happy birthday

Rice krispie treat cupcakes

Grandma visiting

Ben's mom was able to come down to Arizona and visit with us. I appreciate all of her help with the girls and they had so much fun with Grandma. She even helped me make poodle skirts for the Father-Daughter Sock Hop.

This tiger kept pacing back and forth right in front of the glass. It really wanted to eat Brooklyn. It growled at her. Then it was starting to drool and really kept looking at her.

Father-Daughter Sock Hop Dance

The girls had so much fun at the father-daughter dance. They did a sock hop theme this year. I made poodle skirts for my girls and my two nieces. My brother was awesome and took my nieces to the dance.

Picacho Peak

In Red Rock, we are lucky enough to live next to Picacho Peak, which is a great place to hike. The weather was perfect and it was a great day to hike. We all had fun. We went as far as the little ones could handle!

Brooklyn actually walking and not being carried by Ben

Collecting rocks

Climbing rocks

Cousins

My awesome family

Mandy and I

Taking a break

Phoenix Coyotes vs New York Islanders

Ben and I had an awesome date last night! We went to our first NHL game up in Phoenix. The game was a lot of fun to watch and the Coyotes won. We ate at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville for dinner since it was next to the arena and had great food there. I did learn a couple of things from my first NHL experience. 1) Remember a jacket. The ice arena is cold. Gloves are nice too and 2) Some hockey fans are a different breed. After the game, we went for dessert at my favorite place, Rita's Water Ice. I was a little dissappointed in the lack of flavor choices (Maybe the new Rita's have less flavors than the ones out east...I don't know), but it was still yummy!

 Cleaning the ice

All the players warming up

And my Rita's :)