Eating on The Road

I love the things that Taylee says! She is hilarious, even when she doesn't mean to be. It seems that sometimes when you hear remarks out of a child's mouth you realize how stupid the things that we say truly are.

Yesterday we went to Idaho Falls to do a preliminary walk-through of the house that we are purchasing...the contractor is awesome and he is pushing all of his subs to get it done so we can move in next Tuesday. Yea!! We won't be homeless! Anyway, we had planned on taking the girls out to lunch in Idaho Falls after we were done, but as we were finishing the walk-through we got a call from the people buying our Poky house. They wanted to do the final walk-through...in three hours. (The thought going through my mind was, "Wait a second, do you want me to be out of here in a week, or do you want my house to look perfect today? Cuz you can't have both :-) We did a quick stop to get lunch and explained to Taylee that we weren't going to a restaurant. We were going to eat on the road. Taylee got a really quiet for a minute as she thought about this.

And then the little goofball said, "Daddy, I don't want to eat on the road."

Sean, "Why not?"

Taylee,"I'll have to move every time a car comes and then my fries will fall and get dirty."

Needless to say, Sean and I both started laughing, which helped ease the craziness that we have both been feeling. We then explained to Taylee what we meant by "on the road."

I love my girls. They have been so awesome as we are packing. Taylee is so excited about moving to our 'big house' in Idaho Falls (No, the house is not that much bigger than what we are in now. Its just what Taylee calls it). She already has her room picked out and is happy that we will have a park across the road from us.

Brynlee is doing great too. Just as a side-note. She is saying so many things now and understands so much of what we say to her. I love that she understands, "Put that back." It has come in handy . She is learning body parts. Her favorite is belly-button, to which she lifts her shirt all the way above her head and says "be-y bu." She is going through a shoe-obsession stage and I constantly find her putting on everyone elses shoes and walking around with a huge grin on her face. She is awesome and I love that she is happy 24-7. She smiled all the time, especially when she is doing something she knows she shouldn't (like climbing on the dining room table!!).

How Can You Sell a House in 4 Hours?!?

Seriously. I'm not even kidding. We have been planning to move to Idaho Falls for a while now(Sean spent more money on gas last month than we do on our house mortgage!!) and we decided to go ahead and put our house on the market today. Houses always take a few months to sell, right? Wrong!

We signed the papers with our realtor around noon. He took pictures around 2:30. He had everything listed by 4. We had an offer by 8!! It has been crazy and we are still in complete shock.

Oh, but here is the kicker. The couple who are buying are trying to get their kids settled in ASAP with school starting next week, so they offered us our asking price with no contingencies but we have to be out in about 10 days. Yeah. I know. 10 days. But, crazily enough, we are going to take it. We listed our house with a much higher price than what we expected to get out of it knowing that bartering back and forth would lower the price. So, how can you not accept if someone offers the full thing?

So, right now I am not thinking of leaving all of our great friends that we have made in our ward and neighborhood. I am not thinking of all the memories that we have made in our beautiful home. I am not thinking of being further away from family. No, I refuse to think about those things because it makes me too sad. Instead, I will stay focused by packing everything up as fast as I can!

Farming With Grandpa

I have been promising Taylee for a couple weeks that I will take her out onto the harvest combine with Grandpa. Every morning she asks me if she gets to ride on 'nice Frank' (from "Cars") and gets so upset when I tell her no. Well, today I got to tell her yes and she was so excited.

While we were waiting for Grandpa to come close to the car, I kept warning Taylee that it might be loud, hoping that if she was prepared for the noise she wouldn't be scared. But my brave little girl just informed me that she would simply cover her ears (duh, mommy). When the combine got close she held my hand really tight, but when my dad stopped so we could get on, she turned to glare at me and said, "Mommy, its not loud. It's quiet-loud." (whoops! my bad.)

We had so much fun riding with Grandpa. He was so good about explaining to Taylee what the combine was doing, using things that Taylee would understand...the knives, a straw, an arm. She loved it and kept talking about it in the car ride home.

Taylee was prepared for the ride with Grandpa with two 'pink candies.' Grandpa and Taylee have a contest every time they are together of who can suck on these candy and get it the smallest without biting. Taylee is pretty good at it. Unfortunately, Grandpa won today by default. As Taylee was trying to show Grandpa how small her candy had gotten it fell out of her mouth onto the floor of the combine and Mommy wouldn't let her put it back in her mouth (such a mean mommy).

Here we are on the combine.

Taylee making kissy-faces at the camera with Grandpa behind us.

Taylee's point of view

Thank-you Grandpa for letting us come out and see what you do. Taylee is excited to eat her cereal cuz now she knows that Grandpa helps to make it!

New Store

Sean's new store in Rexburg opened today and we are so excited. Between lease agreements, jealous competitors, and constant trips to Rexburg it has been a serious pain! But it has been well worth it cuz it looks awesome!

Here is the front of the store. It always takes a while to get signs approved by Verizon, so until that hectic process is done, a banner will do, right?

Here is the 'before' shot. It was a T-Mobile store, hence the pink and grey walls :-). This was the night that Sean and I pulled carpet up for three hours! We had to stop about five feet from the front door because there was 'rock carpet.' Sounds pretty cool, right? WRONG. It was tiny pebbles glued to the cement! It took Sean and two other men almost a full day to chisel that stuff away. So, please never ever use rock carpet!
Here is an 'after' picture, though it is not the best angle (I really should have been at your class, Cami!). This was the night that we cleaned all the construction stuff out, organized the inventory and office supplies, and scrubbed everything down. We had the girls with it, and I'm not sure if they were more help or hinderance...oh well, it was still a lot of fun to do it together.

Here is just a side note to the new location. This is the view from the front sidewalk. And whenever I see it I have to smile. This is Carousel Court!! This is where I spent my first year at Ricks College/BYUI!! I have the best memories there. Great roommates, great friends, great school. I seriously loved it! Not to mention, my first kiss with Sean was on that deck...wow, that was a long time ago!

I Finally Did It!

For everyone who has been pestering me (you know who you are!), I finally got my vinyl accentz site up. It only took me three months! Not bad for me, eh? t is linked with the recipe site. Hope you enjoy it!

I'm Getting Worse...

Golf. Golf. Golf. Ok, so it has been a good month since the last time I went golfing and I have been so proud that I am slowly getting better. Well, I went today with Sean and somehow I got worse (maybe the month break from it?!?). On the first hole I about threw my club! I just couldn't hit that stupid ball for anything. But, luckily for Sean, I quickly calmed down when I realized how stupid I was being and we had a great time.
Except, before we went I told Sean that I wanted to walk the entire course. Why not, right? Its about four hours to play the course and its at a pretty relaxed pace so I thought it would be a nice workout. But, like always, I did not think this decision all the way through. We went at noon. It was 95 degrees. It was hot!! I don't think we will do that again :-)
By the way, Sean played awesome today. He had his best round ever with a 79. It is the first time that he has shot in the 70s and he has been pretty happy ever since. I was amazed by how well he is doing. His drives make me sick...it takes me at least 3 shots to reach his 1. And he can sink putts from like 15 feet out without even trying...it takes me about 4 hits to get it in from the same place. But, luckily if I have a great par 3 and he has a bad one, we sometimes have the same score (4), so then I feel better about my golf game :-). I think he might do this on purpose though, but thats ok, sometimes I need the confidence boost after I have quit counting my strokes on the previous couple holes!