Holy Changes!

It's been 2 long years since I've posted. Not sure why, exactly.

August 2011, we moved back to Arizona. The incredible stress of being away from the kids for long stretches of time were just too much to handle. I found a great job working for Sunquest Information Systems and Tye has been trying his hand at a number of contract positions creating amazing art. On Monday, 11/11, he started a new job with State Farm and is doing incredibly well there.

It is perfect and wonderful to see the kids all the time now. I think everyone is a lot happier. It has been a long few years to get to where we are, but here we are!

2011

Awesome family dinner!

2012

We loved the beach! 

2013

And then something spectacular and amazing happened...

We were pregnant!!!

We were thrilled and cautiously optimistic. With my surgery history, we had several appointments to keep before we were sure that everything was progressing well. 

A tiny little blip of joy!

Summer 2011

I'm late in posting this, but we have had a lot on our plates recently, so...too bad! :D 

It's been a really long time since I posted. Since then I have *nearly* completed school, moved out of the house that we loved and made plans to move back to Arizona.

More on all that later though. The kids were out for nearly two months this summer. We had such an amazing time, even with almost no money! :D

I had to drive alone since Tye had just started a brand new job and couldn't get any time off.

Yay! Halfway there!!

The kids and I had a lot of fun on the 14 hour drive back though. A huge car accident added 2 hours to the regular drive time. But we finally made it home to Utah.






When we first arrived, it was still pretty cold outside. :D The kids had to wear jackets when they were outside.

Yee Haw!

Too much fun! 

They had a lot of fun at the little playground across the street for a day or two and then got bored with it...of course.







We spent  a lot of time at the park up the street

Me and my love

Xander's hair...before he cut it. 

, some time at Liberty Park and we attempted to go to the river. It was running FAR too fast for us to do anything but stare at it...oh, and throw some rocks and hang out with a little furry friend!

Squirrel!!

Throwing rocks

I was even given some gorgeous roses. 

Tye actually picked these for me himself! They're gorgeous! 

Then we went to the lake. That was one of the most fun days we had while they were here. 

That night we went to see fireworks up at The Canyons. 

Tye and I got ridiculously sunburned, but it was worth it. Such a super fun day! 

On the 4th of July, we headed over to Justin and Amber's place to set off some fireworks. First time for me and the kids, so we had a BLAST! 

Justin and Leah. Heh. 

Xander being the fireman. 

I feel like the summer was fantastic and I feel like the kids had an amazing time. 

Some new situations have arisen, and we will be moving back to Arizona soon. Tye will be leaving in about 3 weeks and I will follow once he has all our thing arranged there. It's going to be really hard being apart for so long, but it will be worth it. I'll be able to see the kids a lot more and we can get our lives in better order.