Home Sweet Home

For those of you who haven't seen, this is our new house.  We are so pleased with the way it turned out.  There are still some things that are not quite finished, (the cabinet doors) which I'm about ready to strangle my cabinet guy.  So I won't put any pictures of the interior quite yet.  I want you to get the full finished effect.  

If any of you happen to be in or around Rock Springs, stop buy and see!

We've had a very busy two weeks.  It started out with us moving into our new house.  That was so exhausting.  Two weeks later I'm still trying to recover.  I'm going to try to post some pictures of the house soon.  I just haven't had time to take any yet.  It really turned out beautifully and I'm so happy.  Thanks to my sweet husband who has spent every day over here for the past 8 months.  We are extremely grateful to have a little more space to stretch our legs.  Hopefully one of these next months we will be able to get some furniture to fill up all this space.  Right now we don't have any couches in our living room.  We put our old couches in the basement, so right now when we have company over we all just kinda sprawl out on the floor.  And amazingly its still pretty comfortable!

So we moved in one a Tuesday and then had to pack up again and head to Salt Lake for Grandpa Nacey's funeral on Thursday.   It was a very emotional and hectic weekend.  The funeral was wonderful and it was nice to see everyone gather to celebrate the life of Grandpa.  

We had this family picture taken at the luncheon after the funeral.  

South Dakota

We just got back from an awesome trip to the Black Hills.  We had a Himmerich Family reunion in Deadwood SD so we got to spent several days up there visiting family and seeing the sights.  Josh and I hadn't been there for 7 years so it was fun to make the trip back up there.

While we were there we took the kids to Story Book Island in Rapid City.  

These are all the kids that we had with us that day.  Mya, Canaan, Kaylee, Presley, Kenady, Kyle and Dax.  
Kenady on Noah's Ark.
Josh and Presley learning how to dig.
Kenady and Kaylee.  Kenady had a new pose for every picture and always a million dollar smile to go with it.
Presley on the other hand, continually heard throughout the day, "Presley look at the camera, Presley smile," over and over.  She finally had her breakdown in Yogi the Bear's picnic basket.

This was on the boat at the gorge.  We were trying to get a little fishing in, but the fish weren't cooperating.

Presley gets to drive the boat.  I thought she was going to flip us a couple of times with the way she was cranking on the steering wheel.  

My children are so "creative."  Creative means messy in my vocabulary.  The two ironing boards are their horses, which they tied belts to for reins and then proceeded to bring every toy from their room to our tiny closet because I guess that was the best place for their carriage.  Of course most of our clothes ended up on the floor after this game.

Aunty Melissa gave them these suckers.  Bad Aunty Melissa, bad! :)

Kenady got to ride a banana bike at Bear Lake and she thought she was the coolest.  Its all she could talk about for days after.

This is the actual picture, Josh did the second one as a joke, when he was messing around in photo shop.  We are VERY excited about this little guy coming to our family.  Its strange to think about boys.  We are so engrained with girl DNA at our house I'm not quite sure how to transition from princesses to trucks.  But I can't wait.

Memorial Day Weekend

We spend Memorial Weekend camping at the Flaming Gorge.  We used my brother's camper which the kids thought was the coolest thing ever.  I thought it was great too when we woke up the first day with snow everywhere.  I was sure glad that I didn't have to go outside to cook breakfast.  Our friends have a big, beautiful motor home so we all piled in it to go down fishing and to just hang out when it rained, which was most of the weekend.  But we had a great time, regardless of the weather, and the girls were sad the day we told them we were heading home.

Josh, doing what consumes his mind most of the time, fishing!

Kenady is fed up with all the rain!

Presley is loving the camping life.

This is Kenady and Presley and friends riding in the motor home, checking out the view of the Gorge.