We're moving!

Alas, we are moving from the fair town of Gunlock. We are sad. We will miss Kevin & Sara & the kids and the ward and the quiet and the orchard... but Justin works in Hurricane now. So we decided that it would be best if we moved into St. George to help offset fuel costs.

There are a couple of places that we are looking at right now. One is in Santa Clara (not too much closer than Gunlock, but a little) and the other is off of Main Street in St. George. They are exactly the same floor plan, except they're mirrored images of each other.

We're planning on moving the end of May so we will be in for the 1st of June. It's bitter-sweet for me. On the one hand, I'm gonna miss Sara terribly. We've gotten to be super, SUPER close friends. And I'll miss my Cub Scouts and the members of the ward. On the other hand, I'm excited to have a bigger space and have all of our stuff under the same roof(minus our trailer[possibly] and piano[one day, I swear it will move out of Janet and Mark's basement]).

I guess I'm mostly apprehensive, scratch that, scared, about the new ward we would move into. I'm pretty shy when it comes to new people and I have a hard time feeling welcome in new wards. I'm sure it will work out. The Lord gives us opportunities to grow and I know this is one of them. I'm grateful that he has that kind of faith in me!

Gotta love lds.org

I absolutely love the Church's website. If you've got a question, the site has an answer.

Justin and I have been trying harder to read the Book of Mormon together (we've resorted to reading while we're carpooling to work). I usually do the reading, as Justin usually drives. The other day, we came across the "And my father dwelt in a tent" verse. I thought to myself, "so what? Big deal, you lived in a tent." But then I got to thinking about it. Why would Nephi waste space on the plates, especially so early in the writing, about something so seemingly unimportant? There must be a reason. So I went to lds.org and found this very illuminating article. It documents a couple who were contracted by the Church Magazines to find the route that was most probable for Lehi and his family to take when escaping Jerusalem. I HIGHLY recommend it. It was a very interesting read.

Grumble...

I feel like I need to apologize for not posting more from March and, now April. I have decided that I need to get a small point and shoot camera because my camera is just too big to haul around every where. I mean, seriously, have you ever tried to get a candid with yourself and another person trying to reach something roughly the size and shape of an anvil clear out to your arm's full extension? Yeah, not so fun...

To add to the lack of pictures, our laptop has some sort of virus and we haven't had the time to sit down and figure the dumb thing out. We'll probably have to take it to one of our friends (computer genius!) to get it taken care of. That's fine, he's a good guy.

So, I have a million pictures. Can I upload them? No. They are on my laptop. As it is, I'm writing this post at 8:40 in the morning on my work computer. Not that my boss would mind if I was writing it during business hours, but it just doesn't have the same familiarity as my laptop.

Justin has a new job. He's going to be phasing out his bug spraying, so if you want your house sprayed, you best speak up soon. He is working for a company that buys and refurbishes used commercial fitness equipment. It is truly amazing how much happier he is at this job than he was bug spraying.

Well, I suppose, until my laptop is fixed, adieu.

Alex and the pictures...

Alex and I went out and took his mission pics near the reservoir the other day. Here's what we got:The kid looks funny with out his glasses, doesn't he? ;) But they are transition lenses and that makes them very hard to photograph.

Leprechauns and Cub Scouts...

Our ward is having a St. Patrick's Day party. My Visiting Teacher is the committee chair for the activities committee. I was perusing the Family Fun website, looking for some fun crafts for my Cub Scouts to make. I found this really cute leprechaun craft and thought that the activities committee might like some help with decorations. So, to make a long story short, my Cub Scouts are going to decorate these little leprechauns for the party. Yes, I notice that I said "decorate." There is a very good reason for that. It mainly is a concern of time. See, even though the instructions said that it only took an hour, it took me an hour and a half. Considering that it was me, I knew that the Scouts wouldn't be able to do the entire thing in the time we have to get it done.

Here is the link to the instructions.

Here's my army of un-decorated leprechauns.

I'm an Aunt... again... YAY!

Since no one else has posted this yet, I'll do it.

Jared and Emily had their baby on Tuesday afternoon.
Guess what? It's a boy! How exciting for them!
He's 9lbs 2 oz and 20-3/4" long. As of the last I heard, they had not picked out a name yet, but seeing as it is the 26th when I post this, so, in all likely hood, they might have picked one out. I'll post it when I know.

I hear that I have three extremely excited nieces...

P.S. If you're wondering why we haven't gone to see the baby yet, our neighbors have had the sniffles and I want to make sure that Justin and I don't have them before we go see our nephew. Its a little respiratory thing they've got and we don't want to give it to any of the three new born great-grandkids.

This is what happens when your niece asks for something...

So, I happened to run into my sister-in-law and my niece the other day at D.I. They were looking for books, I was looking for jeans that don't hang clear down on my hips. While there, my sister-in-law told me that her daughter had asked if Aunt Rachel was going to make her (my niece) another hair clip that she could wear in her 6 year old pictures. I made one for her last year and, honest to goodness, could not think of what to get her this year. So, I said sure, what color did she want? Pink. It's always pink. I don't know why I ever ask...

Fast forward to the next Tuesday... I'm with Shae on our sewing night, helping her cut out a pattern for a skirt. Guess what color the fabric was? Pink! Not only pink, but pink satin with butterflies. Yeah, I asked for the remnants and made a couple of really cute (in my opinion) hair clips out of it for my niece, Lizzy. They were so cute, in fact, that I made one for myself. Here's the one I made for me. I'm even wearing it in my hair today...


P.S. I'm planning on making more and possibly selling them on Etsy. I haven't set up my shop yet, though, so don't go looking for it yet...