The greatest antidepressant is selfless love. <3

Playday at the park

I am kind of a loyalist. Everywhere I go, I vow that I am going to stay in touch with the people I have made friends along the way. It is getting harder and harder these days though! So I drove back to my Friends and my favorite park for a play date. It was so great to see everyone again! Here are some of my girls (Tsadakah was at school) playing while I was waiting for everyone to show up.

Finally, A Tour

So, this is only 2 weeks past the time that I promised my SIL that I would post pictures, and 2 months after we moved in, but I really wanted our furniture to be here and our pictures on the wall before I posed pictures. :)This is from the front door. You can see the banister which leads upstairs. This is our living room. My favorite part of the whole house is the fireplace and crown molding around the windows. In the background you can catch a glimpse of the dining room.Here is the dining room from the opposite view (the kitchen) The girls wanted to be in the picture. lol Mike installed the light fixture new, and I love it! Out the window you can see the grape trellis. LOVE it! Cant wait to learn how to properly care for it so that we have thousands of wonderful grapes!Here is the kitchen from the dining room. Brand new bar stools! I love them a lot too! All new appliances! The Range is AWESOME! Thanks so much honey!

This is the master bedroom which is to the right from the front entryway. (that first picture) This is our new dresser! :)

This is our new bed and I paid extra to have 2 nightstands! Totally worth it!This picture really makes it look small in here, but its pretty big!

Jumping around a bit, here is the downstairs bathroom. Mike asked what I wanted for my bday and I said a sink. So he got me this and the toilet to go along with it! Now all it needs is tile and it will be a finished bathroom!

And that is all that I have taken pictures of so far. Hope that you have enjoyed your little tour of my wonderful home! :)

More from Heber Valley

There were some more pictures that I found from Heber Valley! Eliannah is eating a cookie smore! Delicious! I was tempted!

Tsadakah prefers not to have smore or toasted mallows, she likes them cold! Yuck!

I also really wanted to post about the awesome swing course. It was a cable swing that was attached to a pulley. Family members ran as fast as they could to pull you to the top quickly and then you had to have the courage to let go and swing back down.

When we signed up for it, because kids were allowed I figured that it was small and not for adults. So we only signed up 2. Eliannah was afraid and didn't want to do it so that left only one for Mike or I. We both wanted to go so we did rock-paper-scissors. I lost! *sigh! So here he is having the time of his life!

I think that this picture sums up the trill of it all! :) He said that it was funner than that one we did the next day. Look at him! He is so happy! I couldn't even be upset that he won. It makes me so happy to see him enjoying himself so much!

Brave lil' Tsadakah did it and she had the time of her life! I love to see her happy too!

And she makes that helmet look good!

This is what the kids did while we were occupied!

MiKaylah fell asleep on Mike's shoulder. Sweet darling! She is so CUTE!This lil girl makes me super happy too! WOW! So I think that she gets over stimulated when we are in public and that is why she sometimes acts up, because at home, most of the time she is so calm and peaceful! She loves to play in her room all by herself. When Tsadakah is at school I think that she is going to want to play with me, but no, she wants to play with all of Tsadakah's toys! She is up in her room the whole time. It is almost as if she is taking a nap! She really is a princess!

What I got out of the Relief Society meeting: "I don't need a To Do list, I need a To Charity list! Because Charity is my WHY!"

Back to School

This is Tsadakah one year ago when she came home from her first day of Pre-School. It was a fun experience for her and the first lil break I had experienced. I liked it, not because I wanted to be away from her, but because Eliannah was such a better child when she didn't have to compete for my attention! lol

And here she is one year later on her first day of KINDERGARTEN! She has been so excited about her new school, new clothes, new back pack. Counting down seasons and events to this spectacular day, her first day of school. As for me, it was not the best experience. I wanted it to be sentimental and special, but MiKaylah and Eliannah were all over the place and there was so much going on in that hallway that I was too over-stressed to feel any other emotion. I snapped these two shots on my phone, kissed her quick and I was out of there!

I felt sad that I didn't even get a chance to feel sad. lol But she was fine! She was happy to be there and I remember her searching and finding her name on a leaf on the paper tree, and wanting to know where to hang her backpack. She is such a good lil girl! She is more than ready for this!

Sisterly sweetness!

I wanted to say a little bit about fall too. I love this season so much! Not only is it when my 2 favorite holidays are (MY birthday + Halloween) but I love the smells and the feel. I love that when I walk down the street on a crisp morning I can smell pumpkins and squash growing in nearby gardens. I love that I can smell grapevines ripening to sweet savor. I also love the smells inside, like when I walk through the front doors of an elementary school and I can smell office supplies, like tape, glue, and crayons. I love the idea of a bouquet full of freshly sharpened pencils from the movie, You've Got Mail, because I too love the smell of pencils.

Welcome Fall! Welcome School! Welcome Good Times and Holidays!

My First Few days In Our Home

I kept telling myself that when we moved into the new house, the first night I was going to celebrate by going down the stairs in a sleeping bag. One of my favorite things about the new house was that it has stairs (3 sets) which I have so been missing! Of course with all that was going on it didn't happen the first night. In fact it didn't happen for many weeks. But the important thing was that eventually it did happen. :)

The girls holding hands in the car was not instructed or prompted. It was a proud mommy moment, where I felt that I had done a good job teaching my girls to be loving.

CUTEST thing! Really, I love this! MiKaylah has been doing A LOT of darling things this last 2 months. So many in fact that I am worried I will never remember them all.

-When she tries to make the pig noise she blows raspberries instead of Oinking. lol

-When she sees a mouse in any book she has to kiss it.

-She loves to buckle her car seat, high chair, and any other buckle available.

-I love her curls in back, but I also LOVE her in pig-tales!

-She squishes my nose when she wants me to say "HONK" and taps it when she wants me to say "BEEP."

-She loves to be nakey! She knows how to take off her dresses and shirts and wants to put on her own pants.

-She pushes out her lips in a perfect circle when she says, "no, no!" I can't help but laugh!