June 2009 Update

Well…it’s over!!!

We closed on our house sale on Friday (5/29) and closed on Monday (6/1) on our new home. Thanks SOOOOOOO much to our wonderful friends the Clayton family who graciously took us in and gave us a roof over our heads for a few days. We also found a temporary home for our dog Addie with our friends the Peterson family, where she hung out with 2 Huskies for a few days. Thanks so much to them also!!!

Monday was a busy day with Rhett’s work, closing on our home, moving, and a swim meet! We split the responsibilities and I took the kids to the swim meet while Rhett and some friends from our ward moved us into our house. Thanks to all those who helped!!! Our friend Mike wondered how we fit that much stuff into our little house. I guess that just goes to show you what a good organizer I can be!

We are currently living in chaos, but adjusting to the change wonderfully. I put 12 boxes of food storage in my pantry and still had oodles of room. Yay!!! I didn’t have a pantry before. The boys LOVE the playroom (so do I) and now spend time enjoying all their toys that have been in storage for a few months. Austin is in Lego heaven.

Austin is once again enjoying the Shockwaves Swim Team and is becoming one of the top swimmers in his age group in Butterfly and Freestyle. He is excited for school to be out this week and looks forward to spending the summer in our new place.

I registered Logan for the Shockwaves this year also, thinking that I’d rather NOT have 3 non-swimmers at the pool this summer. He had second thoughts about it at first, but is now doing quite well. Not good enough yet to be entered in a meet, but hopefully soon.

Carson celebrated his 3rd Birthday on Tuesday 6/2. We bought him a house!…and a remote control car. He spent the day running around in the new house climbing on all the “mountains” of boxes. We had pizza (thanks to another wonderful friend, Tiffany) and cake & ice cream of course. I look forward to seeing "Wicked" for my birthday next week!

Jackson turned 5 months old on Tuesday also. He is rolling over back & forth now and can’t keep things out of his mouth no matter what it is…clothes, bibs, fingers, thumb, toys. He continues to be the best baby ever and is almost always happy & smiling. What a blessing he is to our family.

That’s about all from us. We are so glad that we were able to sell our home quickly and find something we love. I look forward to decorating the new place…and of course organizing! We are blessed to have wonderful friends & family and we love you all. Have a great month.

I'll post some pictures as soon as I can figure out how to do it on our new computer! Stay tuned...

Love – Rhett, Maren, Austin, Logan, Carson & Jackson