Distracted

We are right in the thick of trying to get a house ready to sell.

Bleh.

I can't say it's my favorite thing I've ever done.  At all.  I finish up one "little" project only to find another thing to try and spiffy up.

Have you ever tried to spiffy something after a child has ransacked it?  There is nothing, I repeat, NOTHING spiffy about children.  Nothing.  I can't describe the layer of dirt that was covering the floor after we pulled up the carpet of the kids room.  I'm pretty sure small animals scurried away as we tore their habitat away.  Thankfully that little endeavor is completed and the critters have relocated.

So now we move right along to packing, and cleaning, and keeping the kids from destroying, and anything and everything associated with all the of the above. 

In the midst of all our chaos, the kids have been on mom-is-distracted-so-we-can-runamuck mode.  For example:

This is what happens when we've had a bit of rain and mom is inside painting.  Ty and Lexi dressed themselves in their swimsuits.  I'm pretty sure Lexi had to contort her body to get her suit on like that.  They then of course followed their older sister Allie who led them through the mud.  Pretty much they went straight to the tub after this little adventure.

Speaking of adventure, this morning a gentleman who was helping to lay the new carpet in the kids room kindly brought it to my attention that my 2 year old was on top of the van.  Sigh.  She was just in the living room for crying out loud!!!!

Yes, distracted.

For now we'll just keep on spiffying and try to keep our kids off of vehicles.  And out of mud.

Test

So Jacob and I thought we'd conduct a little experiment.

We thought we'd do a little test to find out who reads our blog first.  For our little test we are going to post our new announcement and see who finds out first.  Insert a mischievous little grin here.

We have some big news.

A little change in the family.

Granted, we realize we said this probably wouldn't happen again any time soon.  We weren't necessarily planning on it ourselves right now.  But, sometimes things just happen and it works out for the best.

So are you ready?

Ready for our big news?

Any guesses?

What do you think it is?

We are going to have a new......

Place to live!

Yay!  Oh wait, you thought we were having a baby?  Nope!

Jacob will be transferring to the Logan office for work, so here we go on a new adventure!  It's all pretty surreal and crazy with plenty of details to work out, but we are looking forward to cutting down a bit of time on the family commute.  

So watch out, here we come!

HOORAY!

I love weddings.  Oh I love weddings.  Especially when it's a family member.  It wasn't too long ago we celebrated with Marlene and Jesse on their beautiful day.  And now, NOW (get excited here folks) we are going to have ANOTHER WEDDING!  Yes, I know, I know, I can hear the angels singing too!

Check this out:

There is a ring on that pretty little finger!  Ross and Bekka are getting married! 

Because we live so blinkin' far away we almost ALWAYS miss out on these great little moments.  But this time we really scored.  We got to be there when that gorgeous diamond made its first debut at the Israelsen home.  I think I just about came out of my chair!  I may be just a bit on the excited side.  Just a little bit.

Congrats Ross and Bekka, we can't wait for your big day!!

Soccer!

Ty has been waiting and waiting and waiting for soccer to start.  I got him some soccer cleats about a month ago and he has loved trying them on along with his shin guards wondering when in the world he finally would be able to use them.  He made sure to keep them nice and tidy in a little bin under his bed.  The day finally came and he was as happy as could be!

Here he is drowning in his new soccer outfit.  Check out his celestial ball.  It's only fitting the picture turned out that way- he really was that excited:

Here he is scrimmaging with his "Ty Man's"- or so he calls all his little soccer buddies:

He's only had one practice/game.  It's on Friday nights and they practice for a half hour then play for the other half.  His "team" is huge- it has over 30 kids.  Hence the parents are heavily involved.  It was a bit on the chaotic side, but I'm okay with doing it all on one night rather than having it take up 2 days out of the week.  Ty was a bit disappointed that everyone just ran to the ball in a mad dash but hey, it was only the first night!  Hopefully over the next little while he can perfect some mad soccer skills.  I'm certain he has an inner Beckham just dying to get out.

Way to go Ty Man!