Living in St. Joe

We are offically living in St Joe. We were able to close on the new house with no issues on April 5th. Thank goodness to because we loaded the moving truck up and Chad's brother and the kids hung out at the new house while we signed the papers! I am enjoying being up here more and more each day. We really loved Lees Summit so it was hard to leave it. The kids have had to make the most adjustments,but I think they have adjusted well. I told Chad that it is much easier to move when they are 2 and all they need is their toys to be happy. Miki had the hardest time leaving all her friends at school but she has quickly made new ones. She is one of 16 students in her class at school...yes it is a much smaller school! I think church was the biggest adjustment for her, she is the only Valiant 9 in the ward so she is in with the Valiant 10...only three of them! She was so used to having so many that were around her age and all such sweet friends. Good thing we are still close! Jaidon is looking forward to summer school. In June he will get to go to summer school and have a blast. It is a great program where they get to play -even learn- for a month in the summer. He is so excited to start school. So that means mom will be home all day with just Chase!! I am sure I will be busy! I think that Chad is enjoying it the most being closer to work. We are deffintly seeing alot more of him, which we love! Jaidon has loved having alot more time helping Dad out.
I will add some pictures when I get my camera back! Chad stole and took it with him to Utah for his sisters wedding! Chad, Miki, and Jaidon are having a blast with family while I still try to get this house put together :) I have played a little too!

THE NEW HOUSE IN ST. JOE

This is the new home we found in St. Joseph, MO. It has been a stressful process since we had come to an offer agreement on another house and as we were signing the papers they accepted another offer and we were out of luck. We are happy in the end with finding this home, but the process can be a killer on the nerves. We will hopefully be in by the first week in April since the buyers of our house have no respect for school ending in a a few weeks later. Miki will survive, but it is hard to leave friends right before school gets out.

Happy Birthday Chase!

I can't believe Chase is two! We had a fun little family party yesterday and had a lot of fun. Chase was so funny. It was funny anytime anyone would say Happy Birthday he would say "to you." I think one of his favorite things was blowing out the candles! He loved it, I had to light the candles 3 or 4 times so that he could do it over and over. Grandma gave him a shirt that says "Warning I make messes" I think that they made this for my Chase! He is definatly and active little boy. We almost have him saying "2" instead of "3" when you ask him how old he is. He says 2 about half the time now....making progress. I am sure he will be three before we know it. It is amazing how these little people just melt your heart.

YEAH!!!

It has finally happened, we sold our house!!! It has been a very crazy and surreal week. Chad is so excited that come April 5th when he drives to work it won't take an hour and fifteen minutes. We are excited that we will now get to spend a lot more time together as a family! We don't know where we are going to live yet, but we should be able to figure that out this week. We have been waiting for this day for a year now and it sure feels good! Thanks to all of you for your many prayers.

Trouble!

OK today Chase decided to start out the morning by having a little fun! As Jaidon was heading out the door to preschool Chase decided to dump out the entire box of potato flakes. This was really fun and slippery, next it was time to hide in Cookies kennel, maybe I should've let him stay in it, and then on to Miki's room. We have to keep her door closed because he loves to do this, but today her door was open. This all happened before 9:30!!! He keeps me on my toes!