Sigh

*Sigh*

I'm going to have to give in.

We're going to a friends house for an Easter egg hunt.

Which means....

we have to dye eggs.  

Oh the things we do for our children.

Here's where you feel sorry for me.  

Do you feel sorry?

Ya, I didn't think so.

Easter

Just so you know....and I'm sure you all care.....

I am ANTI dying Easter eggs.  

If eggs were meant to be pink and blue etc.  

They would come out that way.

I'm particularly ANTI dying eggs in an apartment where I would have to pay to replace something if it accidentally gets dyed.  

You may now all call me the Easter Grinch.  

She's how old?

Today is KatieJo's 9th Birthday.  

Seriously?  I think I say it every year....but when did she get that old?

She is growing into such a beautiful young lady and I am surprised every day by how grown up she really is.

This year last year has been one of many changes for my girl.  She wasn't very happy leaving Rawlins and made it very clear to us.  However she's made so many good friends here in Richland and really loves living here.

She loves activity days and is learning to play the violin.  She loves playing it and is really quite good at it (had to get my bragging in there...LOL!)  She also LOVES...loves....LOVES her tap dancing class.  She tap dances anywhere and everywhere!

 These flowers and balloons are her birthday present from Auntie Cori and Carson.  It's tradition for her to get them, and yet she's always surprised.  LOVE that about her!

 We were in Idaho Falls over this last weekend and so she got a mini cousin party after Conference.  This is the cake she asked for....marble fudge cake on the bottom layer, vanilla ice cream, crushed up oreos and then mint cookie ice cream from Reeds Dairy, stabilized whip cream for the frosting and then of course more crushed oreos.  We made it on a cookie sheet so it would feed everybody (I think there were 31 of us...not quite sure though).  Grandma Mobley even had black and white candles to match the cake...YAY Grandma!

Things we love about our KatieJo....

She LOVES to read!

 She is such a happy girl

 She loves being a big sister

 She is a very meticulous person.  She is always very careful about everything she does

KatieJo is one of the kindest girls I know

She just loves life

 She always strives to do what's right

Happy Birthday KathleenJo!

house

This post is mainly for family since there aren't very many pictures of the house on realtor.com.  We had our inspection yesterday (Saturday) and so I took my camera along.

The kitchen....don't care for the colors, not sure what colors I want in there yet.   

 The front door, part of the living room and stairs

 Dining room,  doorway on left goes into kitchen, window looks out at backyard and the sliding doors on the right go out to the carport.

 The living room from the stairs.

 the boys room....2 pictures down you'll see a "box".  Every F house has this box and it's part of the stairway. I've heard of some creative things to do with the box...so we'll see what we decide on.

 Master bedroom

 We're going to skip to the basement real quick....because well that's how the pictures loaded.

This will be our food storage room.  It's technically considered the "closet" for the bedroom in the basement.  However, it's perfect for my food storage shelving.  The big ledge you see is because for "government" housing they didn't always completely dig out the basement and then encased the un-dug out part in cement.  We're almost 100% sure that's what's under this ledge.  Someday we may did it out, until the the ledge is kind of cool.  The previous owners used this ledge as a bed and so just threw some twin beds up there.  We may eventually do that, however for now this is food storage and the other....my craft room.....So Excited!

 Craft room

 more of my craft room....I'm not that into pink.  I think I'll have to change those curtains!

 basement bathroom and laundry room (with an "emergency"...just in case it gets too cold outside for the heat pump to work.... furnace and water heater thrown in).  The little black box is for the sprinkler system.

 Shelving in the laundry portion of the bathroom

 the shower....WOOOOHOOOO!  2 showers!!!

 Now back upstairs.  The girl's room.  Not sure I like the crowns on the walls, and we need some lilac color on the walls so both of the girls' quilts will look good in here.  Note the original door on the closet.  I love these doors.  There are only 3 inside doors that aren't original.   I've been told you can buy them at the habitat for humanity store in town.  Looks like I'll be shopping soon :0).

 Upstairs bathroom.  Under the mirror in the first picture is where the sink used to be.  At some point the sink was moved from there to where it is now, which used to be a closet.

 Upstairs hallway.  The far doors are the bathroom on the left, hall closet, girls room on the right.  The doors closest are the linen closet on the left, behind me is the boys room and to the right is our room.

News

So.....here we go again.  We're buying another house.  Yes, we still have our house in Wyoming.  However, it's too expensive to rent here if we want to be in anything but a small apartment and we're trying to put down some more permanent roots!  We LOVE living here so I guess.... why not?

This is a Richland Alphabet House.  It is called an "F" house.

Around here they are not only called alphabet houses, but government houses because all of these homes were built for the Hanford site.  Click HERE to read more about them.

We had originally made an offer on a different F house, but the owners were dragging their feet and didn't sound like they really wanted to sell.  And I have to say that I'm glad they drug their feet because yesterday our Realtor showed us this house.  We knew it was coming on the market and it finally did last night.  Our Realtor was driving by and asked them if she could see it and then called Stuart and gave him a verbal tour and then asked if the owners were okay if we'd like to go see it.  And so we did.

We signed an offer a little over an hour after they signed their paper work to list the house.  

We found out this evening that the accepted our offer and so we are set to close on May 6th.  

We are going to try to move the last week in April as Stuart has Savior of the World rehearsals and performances from now until Easter so moving isn't quite an option yet.

We are SO excited.  It has 4 bedrooms, a carport....we've never had even a carport, and 2 bathrooms.....WOW, we've always lived with one.  That may sound silly to those of you with more than one bathroom but we're about to potty train our 4th child and we need the 2nd bathroom!

This house has everything we would have had to do to the other F house, except the beautiful kitchen the other house had....but I can work on that...LOL!

We thought about looking at newer homes in Richland, however we decided we need to keep the kids in the same school (we'll be a block and a half away), and so a "government" alphabet house it is.  

Park Day!

We went to the park today.  And there was a little bit of this........

Which means I look like this.....

Okay so it's not that bad, but it's funny to think about that it's March 11th and I have a sunburn on my face.  Seriously....where did we move to....Hawaii?

It was my idea to go to the park and I called a few friends to go with us.
We headed to the "Castle Park" as we call it or the Playground of Dreams as it's technically named.

Phillip and his 2 "girl" friends were there.  He followed one around calling her "Princess"....then the girls both decided that they are going to be his wife....hmmmm, Sister wives?  LOL!

While at the park my friend Laura was pushing Phillip in the swing with her 4 month old in her wrap on the front of her.  She pushed Phillip harder than she thought and he knocked her over.  Typically it would have just been kind of funny.  Instead there is a pretty big decline from where the swing platform is to where the bark on the regular ground is.  She landed on her ankle.  It took 3 of us (and her husband and another sister who brought over her stroller so Laura wouldn't have walk back to the car which was REALLY far away.  Side note:  no she didn't ride in the stroller, she just put her knee on it so she didn't have to walk.) to get her to the car.  It also took almost 2 hours of us sitting out there waiting for her husband, and other help.  Mind you we all had at least 2 kids at the park (two of which are infants) so we had to stop to give the babies food etc.  She also couldn't put any weight on it and so 2 of us would have had to help her and that left one with 2 infants to get to the car along with 6 kids under the age of 4.  So we waited.  

We had a good laugh about it.  And to be honest, it was a little strange to not be the one who had sprained my ankle.  I'm usually the one lying on the ground.

Kind of glad it wasn't me.  Is that bad?

My heart is sad tonight, and my eyes are betraying me just slightly.

A little girl Phillip was in dance class last year with was diagnosed last July with an inoperable brain tumor.

Delaney is the sweetest and kindest little girl.

She is her parent's only child and her mother medically can never have any more children.  

She is dying.

She has less than a few days to live, and she just turned 4 years-old.

It makes me want to hold my babies just a little bit longer,

and say a few more prayers thanking my Heavenly Father for blessing me with them.

My prayers are with the Wadsworth family during the next few days and I hope that yours will be too.