January 19, 2009

We made it!

We're here! After a very long 12 hour trip, we pulled in to Chubbuck at about 10:00 last night. We were exhausted! Hailey did great on the trip, she pretty much slept while we were driving and ate every time we stopped so our stops took a little bit longer than normal. We also got to stop in SLC to see our niece Ali at Primary Childrens. She is so cute, I can't wait for Hailey to meet her! It is freezing here, of course, and I am already sad about that. It seems a little wierd to think we aren't just here for a visit for a few days...more like visiting for a few years! We have a lot of work to do today and tomorrow we start looking for houses. Thanks everyone for all the help loading, cleaning, babysitting, packing, driving, calling, feeding us, and everything else you've done.

January 14, 2009

Leaving Las Vegas

Well, I can't believe we only have 4 more days here in Las Vegas! It all seems like it's coming so fast. I haven't written too much about moving and some of you have wondered why we are leaving, so I'll try to jot down some of the thought process that went into this decision. Both of us have always said that one day we would like to end up in Pocatello or Idaho somewhere and we even talked about Jeff working home health so that I could live my dream of summer in Idaho- winter in Las Vegas; but that would be hard for Hailey. Really, I think we just felt like we were ready for something more and Jeff had his dream job offered to him at the right time. That makes it sound like it was easy to decide, but it was much much harder for us to decide to move than either of us anticipated. It took us a LONG time...almost 2 months to decide what we needed to do. We have loved Las Vegas and would have loved to raise Hailey here, it is such a great place with great people, but we felt like we needed to be back in Idaho. Anyway, the memories and growth we have had here will always have a tender spot in our hearts. We learned so much, grew closer to each other, relied more on our Savior than ever before, and of course our greatest miracle happened here: Hailey.

So we are enjoying the last few beautiful sunny days here (although we're mostly inside packing) before we hit the cold winter of Idaho. I told my dad I'm going to spend all day tomorrow in my swimsuit, but I just realized it's already packed along with the shorts. Guess I'll settle for capris and a t-shirt! We hope Idaho is ready to have us back....see you soon!

Oh, and of course no post is complete without a picture of Hailey :)

January 8, 2009

I just can't resist!



Seriously, who can resist these smiley faces? Hailey is smiling SO MUCH now, we love it. I swear she laughed at me the other day too. We love this little gal more than we ever knew we could.
By the way, we are totally not ready to move to Idaho. I have 7 boxes packed...7. Wish us luck!