*House Pics*

Ta Da! Pictures of our house, that I took back in July!! Yay, I finally posted them!! Here is our house, I was standing right in front of my mailbox,

the front door, I really like how much light it lets in. it is really pretty

East side of the house, the side with the air conditioners!! There is a window unit in the dining room, and then the big unit for the rest of the house. That was a tight fit for the trailer, but we sold it!!!

West side of the house, standing at the back of the house in front of the shop, looking towards the street. The closest window is the girls' room, the middle window is my room, and the last window is Max and Rex's room. Yes, all the windows have decorative BARS on them, I don't want to know why. There aren't screens, just bars...

West side of the house from the front looking back

The west side, the back of the shop

The front of the shop, right behind the house.

Inside of the shop

House, then shop, then shed, then, backyard. The backyard is fenced, so it makes the pool safe... ha ha ha. This picture was taken from the very back of the fence in our back yard. Our block doesn't have an alley, so our lot is that much deeper. Our yard just butts up to the other neighbors yards.

Not much room between the shop and the shed, but enough to walk through easily.

The door of the shed

And now I will work on posting pictures inside the house...

what do you want to be for Halloween?

Sad...

No, really, I had my own little crying jag, and pity party.

I thought that I was doing ok, I called my parents to have Max tell them his news about his science fair project, Mom was busy, getting ready for the family party, so we talked to Dad. Mostly I let Max tell the news, I was getting dinner started. I told Max to tell them to have a great time, I made stuffed peppers...

We had a very nice dinner, everyone ate, no one complained, it really was nice.

Max was invited to a birthday party at 7, the girls were invited to a birthday party for tomorrow and we needed to get a gift. So Max and the girls and I hopped in the car, I took Max to his party. Other parents were dropping off their sons, and they were dressed up for a party... The other parents were invited to a Halloween party... My family is having a Halloween party 1100 miles away...

I took the girls to the devil store, and they proceeded to play with and want to buy EVERY Barbie and Disney Princess item on the entire aisle!! Then we went over to the coloring books, and THAT is what we got. I wandered around the groceries trying to plan ahead... I ended up just being tired of being there! By the time I got out to the car, I so wanted to be somewhere else... a Halloween party? Idaho? I was sad, feeling lonely and left out.

Once at home, I cried over the dinner dishes...

I thought that these were juvenile emotions that you grow out of... NOPE. Just move somewhere and have to make new friends, miss all the friendships that had been building for 12 yrs. Miss family ... Oh, how weird that it all made me cry on the night of a Halloween party that had been a tradition for... for... FOREVER!! I miss you all... so much that it's spooky! tee hee *sniff, sniff*

Love you all, wish I was there!

6th grade science fair

Max had to complete a science fair project for his science class. He did a great job! It was our first experience with a science fair, he grew some beans. Ask him about it, and what he learned... His display looked really nice and he had a good presentation of the 14 days that he kept track of his bean plants. Tonight there was a dinner at the school, they had a science expo, and they announced school winners of the science fair. We left Lance home with the triplets, and Kary and Max and I went to the dinner. We looked at some of the projects on display, there were over 800 of them for the entire school (6th, 7th, and 8th grade). Max wanted to hear the winners, so we mosied through the crowded gym for 45 min. To all of our surprise, Max won a first place in the category of botany!! Wowee!! We are so proud of him, great work, Max!

He got a lovely medal, and he can compete in the region at Portales, NM in Feb. We don't know where Portales is... But hey, what a great experience. Congratulations Max!!

hair cuts!

The girls and I decided that we needed some new hairdos to go with our new address! I got a cut and a perm, the girls got hair cuts. Olivia got about 7 inches cut off, and Ysabel got BANGS!! She is so excited to have bangs. Olivia's hair came in so fast once she turned 2, that if I didn't keep it styled, it was always hanging down in her face. One day I left Kary home with the triplets, and Kary cut some bangs for Olivia, she has had them ever since. It is funny, when she fell and cut open her forehead, her bangs covered the stitches and the scar. BUT Ysabel has an entirely different story: her hair took so long to come in, I think that most of her hair is still baby hair, that I would just trim it even. I never tried to give her bangs, but she would ask at least once a week if she could have bangs like Olivia. Those of us who have bangs, think but why?? Bangs have to be trimmed all the time, why even start them?? THEN they take forever to grow out if you decide to do that. But she asked if she could have bangs, and I said OK, so now we all have bangs!! Funny... Anyways, I took the girls to Fanstastic Sams and they got a shampoo and a blow out with their hair cuts!! woo hoo pretty fancy treatment!!

We closed on our house on Tues. and gave the previous owner 2 days to move out, so we got to move all our stuff into our house this weekend!! We moved stuff Friday night, from about 6pm until 9. Then finished Sat. morning, and started in on unloading before noon!! So exciting!! I have pictures, BUT my camera is at our house, and we don't have internet there yet! So we will get to work on that... BUT we have moved!! YAY!! It has been so great of Kanona and Melissa to host us until we are all settled, it has alleviated so much stress that we could have had! I am so thankful that they are my family, and for all that they have done for us!!

Happy Birthday Lance!!

New rollerblades in size 14!! Holy Cow!! Exactly 16 years ago, at 9:04 am Lance Michael Felt made his appearance here on earth, since then we have enjoyed his happy personality, had fun with his love of sports, been challenged by his aversion to English, been proud of his accomplishments, like achieving the rank of Eagle in scouts, appreciated his growth, and learned valuable lessons about living with and loving the spirits that Heavenly Father blesses us with!! Lance, you are such an important part of our family, and you always will be, what a good example you are to your younger brothers and sisters!! I love you so much, and I am glad for the privilege of being your mother! Have a happy birthday!
Tomorrow I will remember all the frustrations that you cause too, but for today... I just remember my very first sweet baby...
all our pictures are packed up so I will edit this when I can post some.

We Made It!!

We all survived the move to New Mexico. We drove and drove and drove and drove, slept, drove some more, drove and drove and drove and drove, and we got to Kanona's house, so we took a break. We were fed some yummy pizza for dinner, provided with comfy beds, and decided to unload the truck in the morning. The truck got unloaded into a storage unit, and our 4 bedroom house furnishings and all our stuff fit into ONE unit! Hopefully we will be able to move it all again soon into our home in New Mexico. For now, we are in Kanona's house waiting to get some good news about owning a 2nd home, and selling our 1st one...
Kent helped us SO MUCH! He drove our UHaul truck, and provided some needed muscles in the unloading. We sent him home from El Paso on an airplane, and he texted me that he made it just before 11 pm. It was hard to send him home, I wanted to keep him here... Ah well, he was wonderful to help us so much, when we really needed some help. With Kary's broken collarbone healing, he can't lift heavy things, and what else is there to lift when you move??! So anyways Kent, you are a lifesaver!!
Kind of a funny side note: it was NOT funny when it happened, but it worked out really well. In all the hustle and hectic mayhem of the move, our portable DVD player for the car was packed in the Uhaul trailer, I was very upset, and worried about 5 kids in the car for a 19 hour move. We tried to find it, but there was no way we were going to unload the whole trailer! So sadly we chalked it up to bad luck, and decided to make the best of the trip without it. But as we got going, we had 3 vehicles, Kary's truck, the UHaul truck, and the suburban, so the kids were all separated and moved around to different vehicles, and we realized that we didn't miss the DVD player at all!! NICE!! But, Ysabel only got to ride with Kent once, because she was feeling her freedom with Kent, and got the WILD idea to OPEN THE DOOR WHILE DRIVING DOWN THE HIGHWAY!!! She scared both her and Kent pretty good there, and rode with Dad the rest of the way :)
I have been pretty emotional about leaving Idaho, family, and all my friends... I love you all I hope to stay in touch, feel free to call, or email or post on facebook, ANYTHING!! You all mean so much to me, and will forever! I love you, talk to you soon...
Valerie

Snaggle Toothed... Snaggle Teeth...?

the tooth fairy has been very busy! She has had to borrow against her golden wand in order to pay for the teeth that have been under the pillows at our house!! Poor tooth fairy... literally ;)

to say nothing of the metal here...

Happy Mother's Day to all! Thank you Kary for the gorgeous roses!

We have plans... big plans! We have two houses under contract right now, one that we are selling and one that we are planning to buy. AND I set a day to move: May 26. I am so glad for all that has worked in our favor, and pray that we can get down to Carlsbad as soon as possible without too much stress... Not too much to ask... ?? We'll see. :)

It must be time to catch up on life...at least on the blog;)
What is the point if we stop posting? ? ? So, we have been living, doing homework, cleaning the house for real estate agents to show it off, we went out to my brother Chris' for the first hot dog roast of the season, we had a couple of family game nights with Kary's family in Pocatello, we went to Carlsbad for spring break, going to church, and primary activities, you know, all the usual stuff...

Well, things are moving along, not very fast, but moving...

Kelesi and Ben helped us to pack up some bookcases, and take them apart for the move, thank you so much guys. And we had a showing of our house, it needs to be decluttered way more, and cleaned more for the next showing. Something for me to get to work on.

I read the Sue Grafton book, "U is for Undertow". I really liked it, I think that it is one of my favorites of the whole series.

Lance went to Boise with the band for State Boys Basketball, he had fun hanging out at the mall, and touring the State Penitentiary! funny, huh?

I tried to upload some videos, but they are too long and it took forever...
so we will have to see about doing videos.
Lance starts a new trimester today, and baseball tryouts start today. I will get some more pictures maybe edit some videos, and check in later.

The pictures are great

So, I thought I would try this out and see if this will work for us better than email. I think that it will.