Moving to Albuquerque

On Febrary19th we signed the papers for the house and loaded in the van and took off for Cedar City, UT to attend my grandmother's funeral. It was a nice visit, following which we headed out for Paige, AZ where we spent the night. Sunday morning we got up and attended Sacrament Meeting and then headed for Albuquerque.  We drove across the Navajo Nations Reservation which was very interesting.  The best part, was when we realized we were 5 minutes from Monument Valley, so we took a detour, this time it was intended.  Another time we will have to go back and spend some serious time there.

A storm was coming in, as you can tell, which made for a beautiful view.

After a week in a little 1 bedroom apartment, (which I wish I had a photo of, but don't) on Feb 29th we signed papers on our home and moved in.   YEAH!!!  Now the work began.

What have we been up to?

You ask.  Good question.  We have been up to a lot, especially boxes.  You could say we up to our eyeballs in boxes.  We have done a little exploring, and celebrated Alexis' birthday.  Along with other wonderful activites.  I figure since I haven't posted forever I would break up our happenings into bits and pieces over the next few days.  Then you don't have to either find the time to read the possible novel that will follow or just ignore all the posts completely because you don't have time.  lol

Anyway, this is the beginning of when I last posted, I think. . .

The last weekend in January we went to Blackfoot for the boys to go ice fishing with Grandpa.  Andrew loves ice fishing and basically anything that involves snow and getting cold.

Pretty good fisherman with some help from Grandpa.

Following that, the first week of February, Brandon, Spencer and I traveled to Albuquerque to look for a house.  The drive took 14 hours, which, considering we had a 6 mo old with us and took an unintended 45 minute detour (more about that later) I think is pretty good.  Spencer was fantastic, he was so well behaved we had nothing to complain about. 

As for the unintended detour, Brandon missed the exit for Moab and I wasn't paying enough attention to let him know it was coming up, so by the time I said where was the exit and we looked at the mile markers, we were 10 miles past the exit.  So we took the long way around Arches which was one of the best unintended detours we could have taken.  We ended up on a literal "Scenic Route" not just the kind you don't intend to take.  The road followed the Colorado River as it headed to Moab.  We eventually had to stop and take pictures.  This is what we saw. . .

and this

and this

Pretty amazing don't you think.  Once we reached Moab we stopped just outside to feed Spencer and walk around a bit.  Brandon took off to take photos there and took these:

I title this: The calf's head

LOVE THIS TREE!!!

Basically, if you have to drive 14 hours, this isn't bad country to have to drive through.

Still Here

We are still around and doing good.  My computer that has all the pictures doesn't have internet yet so I haven't been able to post for a while.  But I am planning on posting later this week, hopefully.


We are enjoying the wonderful weather and have met a lot of new people and our house is almost completely unpacked, now to just reorganize what we have.