Hello Again!

Thanks to all of you who emailed/texted/called me and asked me when I would start blogging again. I am so gratefu-  wait.  That was a dream.  In fact, I'm not sure any of you noticed my hiatus.  Anyhow, whether or not you were aware of it -

I'm BACK.  

Life has calmed down a little bit for me. So I am hoping to devote some time to blogging again.  (When I'm not dealing with my little wild fire angel).

We're settled in our house (which, by the way took WAY too long).  Moving with a 4 month old was a bit difficult, but we're finding our routine and the last of the boxes have been moved to the garage to deal with later put away!

Ha ha! I was trying to take a picture of Ema at our front door and Bracken opened it up.  It was classic.

The kids have friends and our ward has been just wonderful.  They keep inviting me to playgroup (even though I've only gone once).

Here are some things we've been up to:

Taught Bracken to ride his bike.  Thank fully since he's 6, he caught on pretty quick.

The kids went fishing at the home/garden show and caught themselves some fish:

Proud kids with their new goldfish

Flubbers

Copper

Got our first two fish on a Saturday and they were both dead by Wednesday.  Not a good experience for my sweet, tender-hearted Bracken.  It really upset him.  We had to flush it while he was at school.

Dead Flubbers

Moms and Muffins was anti-climactic.  I was wishing they had "Moms and Meat" so we could have a nice steak dinner, or "Moms and Mint Brownies".  Muffins are a bit blah. I have amazing kids, so even though we had muffins at 2:00 in the afternoon, we still had fun.

Gracie is six months old.  That requires a few posts on it's own, so I will address that later.

But, for now here are some pictures:

All cozy in Great Grandma's arms

Gracie and Mya

Early morning squeals!

How can you not LOVE that face???