And the rain, rain, rain came down, down, down...

It recenlty rained for two days straight. It was so amazing and a little strange for our normal February!
After it stopped I went out to take some pictures. It was still raining around us in some areas.

The rain coming down on the mountains is so pretty!

It left everything very soaked and muddy. This is our front drive way.

Looking out towards the barn.

::reflections::

I'm not sure how much we got cause we don't have our rain gauge up yet. 

 As you can tell, it really rained! We were really happy for it! :)

Getting Settled In

Gophers galore! Everywhere you look it seems a gopher has made a fresh mound. The boys started trapping them as soon as we moved in.

Between them and Poppy they have been catching a lot. We got to get them all before we put the garden in this spring!

Checking out a problem with the heater...

Sorting through books before putting them on the shelves. 

There's always time to stop and read Jubilee a "few" books!

Jubilee loves having her own room. She always makes it a mess, but then she is very good at cleaing it all up bofore getting into bed. She spends hours reading books! The other day she came running to Mom and said, "Will you pray for my tummy?" After Mom was done praying she asked what was a wrong with her tummy. Jubilee says, "I read too many books!" haha

She is such a little book worm! :)

We have been getting quite a bit of rain lately, so we got the cows moved up under the porch of the barn. Dad recently built a pasture for them and they are really enjoying the space.

We got the calves moved up as well.

The two dry cows are due in a few weeks. Exciting!! :)

We are still working at getting the dairy going. The guy to get it set up has come and laid it all out, there are just things that take time. It shouldn't be long now till they get started on it. 

Cleaning up outside.

My kittens aren't so little anymore! 

Jubilee licking out the batter bowl. :)

The veiw from our back door.. Aren't the mountains breathtaking?

We are so enjoying our new house. It fits us just right and each day it becomes more like home.

Moving Day

We were all up at 6:00 the morning we moved. We had just gotten back from snowboarding, so we all crawled out of bed a bit sore. Mom had got a lot more packing done while we were gone, but there was still a lot of last minute things to be packed. We had pretty much everything ready to go by 8:00.

These pictures were taken from earlier.

We were thankful for some friends that brought an extra trailer.

Loading up!

Yep, Jesse goes too! lol :)

Four trailers waiting to be unloaded.

Quick lunch and then back to work.

I didn't get a lot of pictures as we were all busy. We had most of the house things moved by that evening and were excited to finally be in our house. It took quite a few more trips to get everything thing done at the old place. Joanna and I went back up and cleaned once we were out. There was piles of compost that had to be moved, animals, etc..We are glad its all over and are enjoying getting settled in! :)

SNOWBOARDING

With two full days of painting, we were all ready for our days off. We loaded up and headed to Tucson, where we swapped out cars for a bigger one and then we were off.

We had a good 5 hour drive to Showlow. To pass time we did a tape quiz.

Yeah, we made it!! It was all cold and snowing! We stopped in for a bite before heading to the lodge.

Aren't they so cute together!?

Here are some of the group that we went with. There was around 65 people.

When we got to the lodge we all headed to bed. 

The next morning we were all up early and after a group talk, we all headed out to the slopes. This was the first time for Joshua and I to snowboard, so we were really excited!

Frist day as you can tell was cold and snowing.

Haha, did someone fall down? lol I had quite a few crashes before I finally started catching on. Joshua caught on first time down and I had to be a bit jealous! lol Second day was a beautiful day and I felt like I did a lot better then the first. I feel like I actually know how now! 

Don't we look like professionals!! :P haha 

So we had an amazing time!! Back to the lodge for a good bowl of chili and then long drive back home.. We got home around 2;30 a.m. Saturday morning. We had to get up by 6:00 that morning to move! Pictures coming...

Cleaning & Painting

So many things were happening the week we were trying to move in. The people had moved out by the 15th, which was a Thursday. Justin and Kaitlyn got engaged on the 17th and Harmony in the Desert was from the 14th to the 18th. We came to the house and cleaned and then drove to Tucson for Harmony in the evenings. That was our story for the weekend. Then after Harmony was over, we jumped in on Monday and Tuesday, finished cleaning and painted the living room, dining room, four bedrooms, the kitchen and two bathrooms. Some of us had a snowboarding trip coming up on Wednesday to Friday, so we were really greatful for Kaitlyn and Juliana's help and we got a lot done in two days.

Micah filling in holes.

Dad getting ready to caulk around the windows.

This kitchen has so many cabinets and it took a while to get them all clean.

I think someone is anxious to get started!!

washing doors

This room will be the office. 

Mom has always wanted a yellow kitchen, so we made sure that she got it! 

We painted a lot of the house a tan. It really brightened things up! :)

This wall was just to purple and didn't go with the yellow, so we painted it tan like the living room.

All done! :)

Now for the living room wall! 

Some of these pictures were taken off the ipad. That's why they are fuzzy.

Cuties! :)

The kitchen changing colors!

Mommy's yellow kitchen! :)

The boys picked a green and brown for their room and were anxious to get the paint on the walls. I don't blame them! :)

Lookin' good boys!

Joanna painted her room blue and white to match her ocean theme. 

Ooops. did someone get in a paint fight? haha

This gives you a quick idea of what my room looked like before we painted it. 

I like it much better now! :)

We are really enjoying the new house! Now that we are starting to get settled in, it feels like home! There's a lot more work still to do, but we get a little done day by day! It is hard to show all that we did on the blog, but it gives you an idea! :)