The Big Move

Back in February Flash and I decided to move in with my family to save money for a house. The original plan was to stay for at least a year. There were other plans such as paying off the truck and finding a house in the same city as my parents. It's a nice city that's not too big and not too small and we liked how our lives were developing there.

We quickly realized though that if we were to have MiniFlash in our lives as often as we wanted we would have to move to the same city as his mom. A city that is bigger, more crowed, and with more traffic. Something Flash WAS NOT looking forward to but as I said the realization hit home pretty hard with MiniFlash going to school with his mom that chances were we wouldn't be seeing him as often.

So we decided to start looking for a home in August after Flash had taken his journymans exam. But one day I come home and Flash had found a house that was not only in our price range but had a lot of potential. We would need a bigger home eventually but there was enough property around we could add on.

This was in April by this time we sold Flash's old house and we set things in motion immediatly. By the end of May the house, or should I say the loan was in our name and we had moved.

MiniFlash decided he wanted to "help pack".

Here are a few pictures of our bedrooms

That green square is chalkboard paint. Those dots on the walls are starch treated fabric from a Transformers fabric we got a Wal Mart.

1 Down an Eternity to Go

Yesterday Flash and I enjoyed our first year anniversary together. Flash gets up every weekday at 6:30am and head off to work by 7:00am. Normally I'm awake and he'll give me a kiss goodbye as I'm eating breakfast and watching the Today show. If I'm still asleep he'll come in quietly and give me a gentle kiss and an "I love you" before heading off to earn his keep.

Yesterday morning I was still in bed (not asleep but in bed) and Flash came bounding into the room yelling, "Happy Anniversary!" landing on top of me and finishing it all with a hug that squeezes the breath out of you. We laughed and congradulated each other on surviving our first year together and joked about calling in sick to work to spend the whole day together.

But alas we decided to be adults and he went off to work while I stayed in bed realizing I still had 20 minutes before I really had to get up.

About the time I was ready to get up I heard the truck pull in on our gravel drive way indicating Flash did not have to work that day. I then had the idea that we could actually take the day off for our anniversary. Once he came in it was decided and I emailed my work to let them know I wasn't coming in.

We did everything from laying in bed to going to Home Depot to buy a new faucet for our kitchen. We hung up the decorations I got over the weekend and headed out to Caldwell to transfer our old truck plates to our new one (smaller, greener, more economical version of what we had before). We went to my parents house who were also taking a day off and played on the Wii fit (I'm very sore in the legs and abs)while also visiting with my brother who just came home from BYU-I for the fall. We saw an early show of "The Dark Knight" (Christian Bale and Heath Ledger are amazing! AMAZING I tell you) and then went to dinner at Olive Garden.

We had a wonderful day together and I feel so blessed to have that man in my life.

Sealings and Shots

Last week our little family went to a BBQ with my in-laws. It wasn't our week to have MiniFlash but his mom was nice enough to let us have him for a couple hours and even past his bed time. We don't see Flash's side of the family very often and I don't even remember the last time we all got together. Since we've only been married for a year (only! HA! My anniversary is this coming Monday and I'm totally excited) and we don't get together much I'm not really familiar with anyone.

At least I know everyones names so I guess that's a start. I'm pretty much a wall flower in new situations unless I'm in charge and then a flourish, possibly even in an annoying sort of way. Not that I'm trying too hard I'm just having fun. Being a wall flower and uncomfortable is no reflection on the group of people I'm with, I'm just shy.

So I thought I'd be in for another round of uncomfortable conversation and being out of the loop on jokes but this time around it was pleasant. MiniFlash had a great time playing with his cousins Travis was his weird self as usual and I wasn't just a wall flower. I wasn't in my element but I wasn't a wall flower. I felt close to comfortable. I left feeling very happy and pleased about seeing my in-laws instead of feeling like I didn't contribute much.

Sunday we got one step closer to getting our paper work done for the sealing, meaning the bishop gave us back the letter Travis wrote because it needed some updating. Things have changed a bit since the last First Presidency letter one being the pregnancy. This time around we stressed the point of needing the sealing done before the baby was born. We feel it would be more unifying for our little family if MiniFlash doesn't feel like he's being pushed aside while the baby gets sealed to us. Being born in the covenant would be so much easier. The bishop received the new letter on Wednesday and asked us to bug him again on Sunday for the final touches. Keep your fingers crossed.

Thursday was the day Miniflash got his 5 year old shots in preparation for going to school. It was emotional. He screamed and cried most of the time we were there even during the exam and had to be held down by three people (two of which were Flash and I) while two others put five shots in his legs.

I think the scariest part for him was being held down so hard. Every time he talked about getting five shots to other people he wouldn't start crying again until he got to the part about being held down. We explained to him before bed time why it had to happen that way and hopefully he'll be able to look back on it with understanding instead of hate and fear.

But he's not complaining about his legs hurting this morning and last night he only crawled on the floor a little bit before realizing he could actually walk so I think the worst is over. Like what happens to most of us hopefully he'll forget about his shots.

Today he gets to go with me to Grandma Hydes house, his mom's grandma. Flash's ex-in-laws are giving me my summer internship and that will be explained another day but MiniFlash loves Grandma Hyde and I'm sure it'll be a good day.

Peaches

The title of this post is actually something I copied from the Grey's Anatomy blog. It's the title of a song I have stuck in my head by the Presidents of the United States which was pretty popular in my high school days. It's not that I'm thinking about peaches and have some sort of prego craving for them. But when you're up really early on a day you don't work the opening line of that song just fits, "Early in the morning gonna eat a lot of peaches," which just seems like a silly thing to be doing or singing about.

This blog is not so much an update as it's the prelude to many updates. Since the only real news that's been heard from me was my pregnancy I thought I'd update in parts cause there's sooooo much to tell. So this is the rough outline of what I'll be talking about in the next few days:

- The Big Move to Boise
- School update and starting the Internship
- Treyson Turns Five
- Jen Turns 30
- 4th of July in Oregon

I say rough because I could remember something I wanted to talk about that's not on the list but that's what I've got so far. And there will be pictures!