i really have been slacking on the blog lately. i wish i made more of an effort to update our blog. my grandpa passed away a few weeks ago, and we sat around all weekend reading through some of his journal entries. it made me want to start keeping a better record of our family happenings!
as always, life has been busy. april was a fun month with a week long visit from my youngest sister stacey. she was on her week break from semesters at byu-idaho so she came over to stay with us for the week. we had so much fun with her here!
we made cute easter basket cupcakes
brought her to preschool with us
enjoyed a couple different picnics
spent a day at the zoo
dying easter eggs
and holding real bunnies.... they were SO soft.
she also babysat for us twice. once so we could go to the temple and another time so we could go see WICKED! jared surprised me with tickets to the broadway show for valentines day. it was the first time either of us had seen it and it was SO MUCH FUN! we loved it!
thanks aunt stacey for coming to see us! we had so much fun with you, and wish we lived closer. stacey just got her mission call to Virginia! she leaves in august. we will miss her, but are excited to write our missionary letters!
we made a quick trip down to utah to attend my grandpa's funeral last weekend. my entire extended family was in town so it was so fun to see everyone... and of course sad to say goodbye to a wonderful man. thank goodness for the knowledge of the gospel.... its nice to know we will see him again.
he sure left behind quite the posterity!
my aunt snapped this picture of brooklynn at the luncheon. oh she is so chunky i love it!
the allred cousins! parker had a blast running around with kyler all weekend. they had so much fun together. we wish we lived closer to him so we could play more.
with everyone in town we took the opportunity to snap some very impromptu pictures
we all sure love GG!
4 generations
after our quick trip to utah we came back to boise just in time to move! thats right ANOTHER move! making this our 6th move in 6 years.
(which by the way, we also celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary in between all the crazy!)
dont worry, this time we just moved across town.... and into the cutest little house you ever did see. i wish i could say we bought it, but we are only renting. and we technically dont live in boise anymore.... we are now residents of kuna, idaho... aka the country. we only moved about 10 miles from our old place, but it sure is out in farmland. you have to pass field after field after field to get to us. we do live in a cute fairly new neighborhood though. we were sad to leave our ward in boise, but we went to our new ward today for the first time, and we really liked it! so SO many friendly people, and lots of young families just like ours. i think we will fit right in. and we are just down the road from our friends and old ward.
one of our favorite parts of the house is the fenced in back yard.
and of course with a house comes yard work!
parker and brooklynn are both growing so fast. brooklynn is already 6 months old! hello?!?!? when did that happen?!?
they are becoming good friends.
just like parker, we swaddled brooklynn. for the last month or so, she has been able to escape from it so just this last weekend we took it away. its gone much MUCH smoother than when we took the swaddle away from parker. thank goodness!
jared stays busy at work and still enjoys his job. he just took his last section for his CPA license, and our fingers are crossed he passed! it will be so nice to have him come home after work each night and not have to stay late to study. we all love having him home.
im staying busy trying to keep two kids alive and our house looking somewhat presentable.
and since its mothers days, i just have to do a shout out to these two who made me a mother. although they can drive me NUTS i sure love them. thanks to jared for working so hard, i get to stay at home with them and watch them learn and grow and interact with each other.
so in a nutshell, thats what we have been up to..... phew! life if busy, and i dont think it has any plans of slowing down. so im trying to enjoy the mundane day to day things because i know my little partners in crime arent going to be this little forever.
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