A very late travel post

Well, we recently moved. And I planned on doing a post about the trip, but it never happened, because I wanted to get a picture of every state sign and I missed two. I decided to do the post anyway, because I don't have very many new pictures.



We made one of those paper chains, counting down for the move. This was the last chain, of course Kaelin wanted it to be purple, and if you wrap it around correctly it does say UTAH.



The first state I successfully got a picture of was, we were in Arkansas very early in the morning and I didn't think the picture would even show up, also we were on a bridge and it would have been a little tricky to get it.



At one point we passed a WHOLE LOT of windmills. They were really cool and it reminded me of that movie Mac and Me, does anyone remember that one? These ones were just close to the road, up over the little hill there were close to 50 windmills.




We passed through Texas




And on our second day we stopped in New Mexico, which I thought was gorgeous! As you see, I didn't get a picture there either. A big semi was blocking my view of the sign. But we woke up early the next morning and I was able to get a picture of this splendid sunrise.



On up to Colorado, just for a little while. The part we drove through was not very exciting, very dead looking.
I immediately started to miss the lushness of Tennessee.



We started getting closer to Utah and starting seeing new scenes of beauty. Large open spaces and big skies. Unique rock formations that I kept taking pictures of as requested by Kaelin. I'll only post one though.



Then, finally into Utah. This is where our tarp covering the bed of our truck got destroyed by a wind storm and we were stuck in traffic for the first time in the canyon. Within 10 minutes of home the pile of electronics stacked next to Sean toppled onto him. Hopefully not a sign of what's to come.


Hopefully we'll be doing some more activities and I'll remember to bring the camera.

Brooklyn Jensen

This is Marci's (my sister) baby girl Brooklyn. Just a quick video for my parents and/or anyone who knows her. Love you Marci!

Snowy photo shoot, sort of

Before Halloween we got some snow. The kids were pretty excited since they haven't seen "real" snow in a while or not at all. I was just giddy. I bundled the kids all up in hats, gloves and winter coats. When I picked them up from school most of the other kids were just wearing light coats. I couldn't decide if I was just over reacting or what? Before we went back inside I wanted to get pictures of the kids in the snow. You can barely see the snow flakes but believe me there were a lot of flakes.



This is what happens when you tell Sean to "smile"




This is Savanna's confused look that she gives us sometimes. I've tried to get it on camera and finally got it. It's funny because the look kind of says, "You are so weird but I still love you" She looks like she laughing at you on the inside.


They were pretty good when I asked them to sit on the stairs for a group picture. Kaelin has a habit of putting her face toward the camera but then her eyes are looking somewhere else. Sean is still trying to master smiling. Although on Halloween, I realized that if you ask to see his vampire teeth it ends up being a some what normal smile. Savanna, I'm just lucky I snapped the picture in time before she got away. And that Vampire decoration wasn't intended to be a part of our little totem, we just got lucky.

Halloween!!!

I Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!!!



Daddy and Savanna at the church's "trunk or treat"



I needed to put these two pictures up, because of the Ursula costume. She in the background of the top pictures. She said that her mother MADE it! Awesome!







our little angel, waiting in line for some food






our crazy monkey



our queen bee (minus her crown and antennae, because she said they hurt )

They all have that face because we were waiting for food and in front of us was a witch, and man with blue hair and some kids covered in blood. A little disturbing to little kids.





This was at the beginning of the night, I tried to get her to stand "normal" and she said, "but this is how I want to stand for my picture."



me, or as the Sean kept referring to me, Mommy Wig. We've only been in the ward for a little while but, not many people recognized me, until I started to talk to them.




Boots the Monkey (from Dora, even though the real Boots, is gray )





Brandi was trying to get her attention, that's what Van is staring at. We have a picture with all the grand kids and the dogs but I can't find it. It might come later

Night Pumpkins

I finally got enough lights to put in the pumpkins in order to take a collective glowing picture. yeah!



More list items-

• Had to return a bra and had the following conversation: "Was there any problems with the item?" "No, it was just too big." "Well, do you want to exchange for the right size?" "They don't make a smaller size" This is when the customer service (teenager) opened the bag and saw that it was a bra, and she literally giggled!
• Trying to get my confidence to shop for a bra in the little girls department.
  

Pumpkins!!!!!

Since there is less than a week before Halloween, we got our pumpkins and got to carving. Sean told Rob what shapes he wanted on his pumpkin. Kaelin helped to carve hers. Then, all the kids colored their pumpkins with magic markers. Savanna had her pumpkin taken away after we realized she was licking the marker off of it.

You might have an assumption about what Savanna is doing with that spoon






And you would be right. She ate A LOT of pumpkin pulp.



Kaelin had issues with getting messy, we told her it was all part of pumpkin carving.





left-right
Sean's with different shapes, Kaelin's with a bat stencil, Rob's optometry pumpkin, my tree, and Savanna's colored one. I need to taken one when they are all a glow, so you can see them a bit better.

Our new digs

We are temporarily living with my sister. Here are a few pictures of our area.

We are down in her basement. This is the kids room, smaller than in Memphis, but here they only have their beds, so it's not bad.
Savanna was following me around while I was taking the pictures.



This room is our living/computer/toy room/bedroom. It actually works quite nicely the kids would always take their toys to wherever we were anyway, so now it's already there and we can clean up easier, awake or asleep
Kaelin was making her own bed, just for fun. Since our bed is also our couch, she wanted to use this little bench for her own.
That closet has some storage and the kids' toys. We didn't bring too many but the amount we have seems just right. I'm very tempted to go through and throw out a lot of their toys that are still packed in Memphis. BTW that dark thing over in the corner is a huge bean bag that belongs to my sister Jayme, the kids will lay on it in the morning or while we read books. So I guess you could count that as a couch.





Also, I have a few more to add to my list from the previous post.

• When you spill your food, it actually falls in your lap.
• While sitting in a vibrating, massage chair the only things that jiggle are your shoulders.

these also came from personal experience from this weekend.