First Day of Soccer Practice

Kherington had her first day of soccer practice.  I wasn't set on signing her up this year until I looked at the cut off age here.  The cut off is just 7 days after her birthday so she is youngest on the team.  My thoughts were that if I waited another year she would be that much further behind the other kids.

She was excited when I told her she was playing soccer this year.  I thought there might be a fight over wearing shin guards, but she was excited to put those and her cleats on.  When we got to the field for her first practice she didn't want to go play with the rest of her teammates. She was literally in tears.  I was that mean mom that said too bad you have to.  She loved it.  When it was time to go, she started whining that she wanted to stay for another practice.

More About Moving

Mom stayed a couple days longer and was huge help.  We spent one evening cleaning our old apartment, then then next morning I dropped her off and she cleaned while I worked out.  Not a bad deal :).  It was huge help and made it so Ryan didn't have to worry about anything (moving 15 days before one of his big deadlines might not have been the best time to move).

While we've been working on getting our new house put together, the kids have been left to fend for themselves quite a bit.  And by kids I mean Kevin (Kherington's in school and Jonathan is still pretty needy).  I found these pictures on the camera courtesy of Kevin.  He asked me to turn the timer on and this is what he did with it :).

We are enjoying all the extra room. A lot of it is empty, but it is refreshing to have that empty space.  I am sure with time it will get filled.  We have been good about unpacking boxes, but after spending so much time packing, we are starting to lose steam with actually organizing what we have unpacked how we want it long term.

Moving Day

 My mom and dad came into town on Thursday to help us with our move.  Before they came, I was sure it would take about 2 more hours to finish packing up our stuff.  Wrong.  I would look and think we were almost done, then the stuff would just keep coming.

On moving day my dad and Ryan were up at 4am, packed the boxes the truck and unloaded them at our new place.  They were back by 7am when a couple of guys from our old ward came to help move the heavy stuff.  It took about an hour to load.

When we got to the new place, we started putting the previously unloaded boxes into the correct rooms.  Then people from the new ward came to help unload the heavy things.  We had thought 4 people were coming but ended up with closer to 15.  It took 20-30 minutes to unload.  Then we had donuts and gaterade and everyone was on their way.  Pretty sweet.

Once they were gone, mom got to work unpacking the kitchen and dad built us some boxes so we can put up a baby gate at the bottom of the stairs.