First Day of School

This is Kenady on her first day of school.  She was so excited to ride on the bus.  I barely got this picture before she bolted down the sidewalk. 

This was the second day of school.  She loves it.  It it a very long day though.  She gets on the bus at 8:53am and doesn't get home off the bus until 4:10 pm.  Its long for her and long for her mother.  I've picked her up a couple of days so that we have time to go do something before dinner.  Its so fun to see her getting so old.  

 This is our fish tank finished (well almost).  It turned out beautifully.  Josh is still trying to get everything situated.  We did have some bass in the tank, but we came home from SLC to the smell of 5 dead fish.  It was awful.  I almost lost my lunch and I wasn't even the one that had to stink my head real close to the tank to get them out.  

That's one tricky thing about having such a large fish tank,  We have to keep an 8 ft ladder in the basement at all times.  Josh is constantly on the ladder reaching down in the tank doing stuff.  I think we will end up getting some more types of bass or freshwater fish to put in it. 

I would say that besides getting some furniture, our house is about 97% done.  We have most of our cabinet doors.  Still missing a few important ones, but hopefully by next week we will be all done.  Hallelujah!

Rough House!

This is what usually happens after dinner. I can't imagine what it will be like when we have a boy in the house.

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.