We miss you daddy!

The caption of this photo should be "We miss you daddy" as I told them to smile for daddy when I was taking it.

Today is a big day for us-da da da da... We are now officially owners of a lovely home in Papillion Nebraska. (Technically, and frighteningly we now own two homes- yikes- as we havent sold our home in Provo yet--- anyone interested?) Kevin signed the papers for us today. He has been overseeing the move and doing all the hard moving stuff- like registering our cars, cleaning the old house and making sure everything is in place and he has been doing this all on his own. It's been hard and stressful and I am so lucky to have such a great guy handling it all while I chill out in Calgary. Thanks honey....we miss you and love you and appreciate all you do!

Calgary

Sadly, our fun days in Calgary are coming to a close. We sure have had a great time with our grandparents and cousins. Here are a few snapshots.

First he had a birthday cake in Utah, then another in PA and yet a third here in Calgary- what a lucky kid.
Brielle's big news is that she now sits up unsupported. Isnt she just so cute!

And here we all are (except our photographer extraordinaire Julie) at the zoo.

Pennsylvania

We had a great visit these past two weeks with Oma and Opa at their new place in Pennsylvania. It was a taste of well...country living I guess. We rode horses and went fishing and just enjoyed the beauty of nature. We were even lucky enough to see some old friends and meet some new friends. We had a great time and took about 200 pictures. I put them in a collage slideshow form just to give you a taste but first - here are a few favorites...

This is Brayden and his beloved Boomer. He rode that horse like a pro - a true cowboy.

While riding horses is something Kevin enjoys, what he really loves is riding this tractor mower thing- any excuse he could come up with and he would be out mowing or just driving it somewhere.

I think I can safely say that Kevin's favorite past time while we were there was fishing. He could do that quite happily ALL DAY long. I never quite caught on to the thrill (especially since we mostly just would catch em and let em go) but apparently for Kevin (and many other men) this is quite exciting. And I should probably mention that the beautiful fish featured above was one of the big wide mouth bass that seemed to be the most sought after fish in the pond. Way to go honey :)

Don't you love Makenna's "look-I-caught-a-fish" pose.

Why can't my kids just smile and say cheese? They always have to make some funky pose. They had a great time with these friends who came for a couple of days. We had a big marshmallow roast that night and the kids had a great time collecting firewood.

We also enjoyed a fabulous visit with the Bassetts- fun as always!

And we met up with some friends from the summer at Chocolate World. It was a great reunion.

And this picture shows the reason that I may (but probably not) be persuaded to get a dog. Makenna and Murphy were best buds while we were there. I especially appreciated Murphy taking over the role of Prince when Makenna needed a dance partner.