FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!

We have a kindergartner! I can't believe it!! Ty started school at Roosevelt Elementary on Wednesday. He was so ready to go. He woke up excited and ready to go. We got up and I made him pancakes and then we went to my school together. And when it was time for Kindergarten Matt and I took him and dropped him off.I just can't believe he is old enough to go to Kindergarten. But I am so glad he is having fun. Tonight he told me, "Mommy, I like Idaho, I am having fun here." So at least I know he is having a successful transition! Here is some pictures of him on his first day of school ENJOY!

First Day THUMBS UP!

In front of our NEW HOUSE! striking a pose of course!

With Daddy!

With Mommy!

Walking down the hall to his classroom...

Sitting at his desk in his class...

So far so good. Things are starting to fall into place. Matt goes to work on Monday for Flooring America. The owners are family friends of his and he will be helping to remodel one of their stores. It is right up his ally! I am so glad that he is going to be doing something he is familiar with. It is a temporary job with the opportunity to be permanent so we just have to pray that they have their eyes open for the next couple of months and see how great he is at what he does! So things are starting to work out, God is providing! Thanks to everyone who has been praying for us during this change!!

Slip And SLIDE /update

Before we left S.F. John and Michelle bought Ty a slip and slide. So the other day Matt broke it out in the back yard. Kirsten and Boston were over to watch all of this craziness. It was so much fun!

Ty didn't quite know what to do with it at first being a city kid and all but he took to it fast.

We have still been busy at work on our house...but we have taken out sometime for play. I started work this week, at The Garden Of Learning a preschool in Nampa and so far so good. We have some things to iron out still but I think it is going to work out good. Ty is starting kindergarten next week. He will be going to work with me at 8 am and staying at the school with me until after lunch when he will take the bus to his kindergarten. I get off work at 3 pm so I will be done in time to pick him up from school. Please pray for us this week as we face a lot of changes in our life. Matt still has not found a job. He has a lot of leads but nothing is set in stone yet so please continue you to pray for him as he tries to iron out all the details of what he will be doing. Please pray that he just finds something that he will enjoy!

Decorating Crazy!

We are loving every min of being in our house! We have already started getting everything in order and decorating each room. Not one room at a time...We are doing a little here and a little there....

We Painted Ty's room...He picked out the color called "Star Command Blue" which we actually switched with the color called "Liberty" and since it is still blue he had NO idea! One day we will tell him the truth. He had a blast helping paint.

And it turned out really cool. I Painted the quote: "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." and we stenciled his name on his door also. We still have some pictures to hang and lots of toys to find a place for still but what fun would it be if it were all done already.

We painted our room as well. We kept the base color of the wall and then we put a large stripe around the middle in a darker shade of brown. We also got vinyl lettering in our room that says Always remember to kiss me good night. I think it turned out beautiful! Our room is pretty much done. We just need a little book shelf to hide all of our internet routers and such in.


We had our first dinner guests yesterday when Cal and Tracy came over. It was so much fun to cook for them in my new kitchen and sit around the table and just hang out with good friends. We also had our first San Francisco visitors. Esther and Clayton, came up for a family reunion and came by to see us and our house and of course a couple of hours of some very competitive Wii had to take place.... Can you believe that is Clayton...He is bigger than Matt! It was fun to see them and Ty liked kicking Clayton's butt in boxing on the Wii.

Please pray for Jobs

One of the hardest things about leaving San Francisco was that Matt was leaving a job that he loved. He loved working with his dad and Joaquin and the work that they did was so amazing. Before we left they were in the throws of building a house for the Kilgore family. Our friends who adopted 7 boys! They are the best family and so it was very emotional for Matt to leave not only the job but on this particular project. On Matt's last day on the job I snapped this picture of the dream team. Mike, Matt & Joaquin. Here they are in front of the "Kilgore Project"

Please keep Matt in your prayers. Job situation for him is still up in the air and I know that he is nervous about it. So please pray with us that something just as wonderful as life with the dream team comes his way!

We are HOME!

We are HOME!

We got to Nampa, Friday night and we drove straight to our house. Matt Ty and I stayed the night here just on the floor and then we got up on Saturday and started moving. We moved pretty much all day just at least getting everything in the house and setting up beds and such. I'm sure that people must have thought Matt and I were crazy because I think both of us were just in such awe that this was our house. I had Matt and Mike hang a mirror for me on the wall and everytime I walked past it I just kept say gosh I love that mirror there! It is so much fun to fidget around here and get everything set up. Take for example, the kitchen....

BEFORE:

AFTER:

I can't wait to get cooking in there!

Ty is loving being here too...The best part? His own bathroom of course. It is not like he spends that much time in the bathroom but it is "HIS" and that is what is cool about it. He will literally run from the living room upstairs just to use his bathroom...as a matter of fact I am not sure he has EVER used any of the other bathrooms :) We have his bathroom decorated in Cars movie stuff. And yesterday I even found him a trash can for the bathroom that has scenes from the movie on it. It is pretty cool. We are going to paint his room and our room today. So this week will just be so much fun. It is really fun to be around Matt right now since he was working so much before we left. It is so cool to have a husband who can just put in a new plug right where you need it. I never thought I would enjoy arguing with Matt over where something is going to go but it is so much fun working together on this. There is no one in the world I like to around more than Matt. This place has just been such a blessing to us we are so excited to see what the future holds here.

It's a work in progress but the best part is that it is OUR work in progress!!