What we spend our days doing

We sure do stay busy... here are the things I have taken time to capture in a picture. The latest game is called "playing bags" :) It is usually very windy here. They take a Walmart bag out into the wind, and let the wind carry it and chase it. Love their imagination! Will have to try and get a pic of that one before we leave.


Riding bikes, although it is not a good place to bike - we have replaced 3 inner tubes so far - too many cactus prickys!


Putting rocks on the chain and spinning the peddles to watch the rocks fly off the other end :)


Doing puzzles - looks like Sammy is trying to help in this one!


That Cinderella one is 300 pieces! Thats the biggest they have ever done, and they did it all on their own.




Making things with clay. this one is a cup, blueberries, peas, corn, jelly beans and a bird sitting on a nest

Trip to New Mexico

So glad Cliff was willing to drive us down. I first had the trailer loaded tongue heavy. The night before we left, Duane decided that we should unload and reload to fix this. So the next morning we pulled most of our trailer (and truck - you wouldn't believe how much I had packed into that truck!!) out onto Duanes driveway and started it all over. We left behind a few of the bigger and heavier stuff. Well, then we ended up with it rear heavy, so it was slow going... if you went over 60 mph the trailer wanted to sway. We left around 11:00 Thursday morning and got into Artesia shortly after lunch on Saturday. All the driving I did was from Harrisville to Flint where I picked up Cliff from the airport - that was about enough of that stress for me!! The kids did very well travelling.


Here we are! Notice the luggage bags on top of the trailer - we were loaded!!


This was quite unusual so had to take a picture of it. It says 44 degrees but its snowing outside (the picture didn't turn out real well and looks like rain, but its snow) Actually I think there was something wrong with the thermometer and it was registering heat from the engine or something) but it made for a good picture :)


Passing the time with clay - thanks to Grandma S!




I think this was eggs in a nest.


Love kids imaginations!! These these are what they decided were phones and they would talk to each other or Cliff or I. Kylees is a snow scraper


And Devons is the phone portion off my fax machine. I had unplugged it earlier so it didn't get caught on something while I packed it in the truck

A new look for a new adventure!

Yep - our life sure isn't boring!! We're off to a new home, new state, new career and new friends! And the best part is... we are back to being a whole family again!!