We made it!

Well we made it to Utah with no major problem, but some comforters and a memory foam missing from the back of the pickup.  Hmm, someone must of needed them more then us, but we are sad as the comfert is part of a bed in a bag that we got for our wedding and the other is a quilt that Dan designed as a kid and his mom then made for him, then she redid the batting and fixed it up and gave it to Dillon 2 years ago, so I am sad that they are gone.  But we had safe travels and now it is time to get all the boxes unpacked and find all the baby food that I know I had for the twins.  The problem is finding places to fit it all as the bedrooms are huge and so is the dinning room, but there is no storage in the bathrooms or no pantry for all the food and very little bottom cupboards to put all of my pots and pans and large bowls, and stuff.

At least Dan will be home at night to help me with the unpacking or watch the kids for me.

Until next time,
Netty

Packing, Packing, Packing

Well I have been busy packing all week long, and now I am tired, of course I woke up at 330am and had trouble going back to sleep.  But the house is about as packed as it can be without taking apart the beds, electronics and the last of the food and dishes, now onto the barn to sort and decide what I am keeping and what I am not keeping.  I have been told I need to condince down what I have and just buy replacements later when I need them rather than holding onto things for later use.  Irene now has her first tooth so both babies have been a little cranky, Irene is also running a fever and has a runny nose so that dosn't make things any easier.  But I am excited to go to Utah this next week and see our new place that Dan has picked out for us and also to see him, I miss him so much.  One more week and we will be togther again!  I am counting down the days!

Netty

We are Moving!

It is official everyone, we are moving! We just got settled into our new apartment and now I have to pack all over again to move back to Utah! Dan just got a new job in Salt Lake City, so we are going back and will be closer to my family. I am excited for the move, but am starting to feel a little stress about it, but it will all work out I am sure. Utah here we come!

Busy, busy, busy

Well, I came home from Kennewick, and have been busy packing. We are moving on Friday night. I am going to do this without Dan, as he won't be home until May 30th and I am leaving for Utah on May 23. On a side note, I got home from Keenewick and lost my keys. We still haven't found them and we have torn the house apart looking for them. Since I didn't have another set here, Dan made a copy and sent it to me today. Well I need to get my kids to bed and contiune to pack while I can.

The long period of unemployment has come down to a terrible decision. Netty and I must move. My father will be helping us financially until I can get employ, so I expect he'll make sure I job hunt like it was a full-time job in itself complete with overtime, minus the overtime pay though. Anyways, our lease is up the end of this month and our landlord has someone else interested in renting the place. We've known this was happening so we got most of the stuff packed up already. Today, we'll finish packing up and get the rental truck. Tomorrow, we'll load the truck and on Wednesday we'll start the drive to my parents' home in Spokane, Washington. My dad figures it will quickly be cheaper than supporting our rent too by having us relocate there. Still, I was hoping to get one of the jobs I had an interview with so I would have been scrambling to find a place locally or in Iowa and going for perhaps a cheaper truck rental.

Thinking of the moving truck rental, ugh! Just three years ago we moved out here from Utah. We rented a moving truck for about eight hundred, not counting gas. I was expecting some inflation and the increased gas prices to hurt especially. Turns out that the cheapest rental truck we could find for the one-way trip is about thirteen hundred, not counting taxes or gas. Ouch! We had some saved up in anticipation of a move with all this job hunting, we just had no idea that it had gotten quite so expensive.

Jennilyn loves practicing her stair climbing. She has gotten good enough that she even climbed up the first step of a step ladder while we weren't paying attention. We had just looked away for a bit thinking nothing of her playing there. We knew Dillon could climb ladders so we had been careful watching him around any ladder, but now we know Jennilyn is upgrading her skills to ladders too. Maybe soon we'll be converting her crib (after we move) to a toddler bed.

Another surprise this past month is learning that Netty is pregnant again. That was not planned. I know what it takes to make a baby.... The details of our planning would probably qualify as too much information. Anyways, Netty had her first ultrasound to make sure it wasn't another tubal pregnancy. The doctor told us that she should get a second ultrasound this next month to confirm whether it is twins or not. I guess I could leap into the lead for kids among my siblings.

Well it has been a while since I last wrote. I have been busy packing as we are moving to Spokane, WA in 1 1/2 weeks. Dan is still unemployed so we are moving in with family until we can find a job. I think that maybe this is for the best, as we recently got a surpise that I am pregnant again. Due Feb 1, 2009. It will be nice to be living close to my mother in law when this happens. I am headed up to Floodwood, MN tomorrow until June 22nd to visit my husbands grandmother. We are also going up to help my in-laws paint grandma's house (of course I will be taking care of my two kids).

I have decided that I need to make a better effort of keeping this up, so I am going to try and do better.

Untill later.