Back to School...

Well, it's that time of year again! Anna had her first day at her new preschool today. She was very excited to meet new friends and was also very excited about her new pink-cupckae-backpack. Here she is posing infront of the house.
Another little shot infront of the purple flowers, she likes the flowers because they're purple....duh!
And of course a picture with Cameron. We decided not to put him in preschool yet. So for now it's just him and me running errands and hanging out on preschool days!

Cameron-Doo

Monday was Cameron's third Birthday! We are out here in Utah for Jacob's wedding, so we were able to do a big birthday party for him with lots of family. Cameron requested a Scooby-Doo birthday party this year. So I made a haunted Scooby party. The whole party was set up so that the kids had to follow theses clues and find out who the ghost was that stole the birthday presents. (we had the presents stolen at the beginning of the party) It was a lot of fun.

Here are the kids with their Scooby masks on. Ian and Olivia are on the left (my sister Angela's kids) and Anna and Cameron are on the right.
Here is Anna and her uncle Jason. She was scared of the whole ghost thing and didn't want to participate in the games. It didn't help that the ghost (who was played by Eric) kept making scary noises.
One of the games was for the kids to each choose and adult and wrap them up like a mummy. Here is my nephew Ian and my "mummy" mom.
Of course the kids found out who the ghost was and were able to get all the presents back. Here is Cameron opening up one of his presents!

The Drive....

We made it to Iowa! We've been here about a week now and are still feeling very unsettled, but are loving the new house! We leave tomorrow to go out of town for Justin's brothers wedding, so I thought I'd put up a few pics from the drive while I had the chance. It wasn't too bad, about 8 hours, and thank goodness for the big new car!

As you can see I arranged all our stuff around Chauncy's dog bed so that he would be able to lay there and see out. Unfortunately that didn't work to well. He was very confused as to what was all going on and wanted to be as close to everyone as possible.....
As you can see from this picutre, he spent some time acting as Anna's pillow. He was actually sleeping ontop there.
And finally he found his spot, underneath Anna's chair on the hard mats. Forget that I spent forever arranging everything in the back around his nice comfy bed, he spent the majority of the time on the ground.....go figure!


















But we're here, we'll post more pics and update you all soon. We think of you all often, especially with all the uneasiness of moving and having to meet new friends all over again.....but that's life.