Happy Birthday my little Kenna

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Mckenna's birthday was yesterday. I can't believe she is 4. We didn't have a big party or anything since we don't know a lot of people here yet. I don't think that bothered her. She helped me make her flip flop cake and we went to Mcdonalds. My favorite part of the day was hearing Kayla sing (she is quite the singer) "happy boooooth day to kenna...." It was so sweet. Even though we didn't do a friend party, the girls had fun playing together with kenna's new baby doll and her little ponies.

*I am just realizing that because we were so busy with the moving that I didn't post anything for Jases birthday or my birthday. Our birthdays are only a week apart--and then Mckenna's is another week after that. We get pretty birthdayed out. Are birthdays really a big deal when you get older? This was the first year that I really wasn't looking forward to saying I'm another year older. I always thought my parents were weird for dreading their birthday. Now I know the feeling.

Sweet Pea Living

My sister is the most creative person I know. She has started a vinyl lettering catalog. I thought I would try to help spread the word. I know you have all seen the vinyl stuff a lot, but her designs are very unique and the prices are great! If you are looking for a great personalized and unique Christmas gift--check this out! www.sweetpealiving.blogspot.com I also have a permanant link on my side bar. I hope you will all check this out. It's worth taking a few minutes to look at!

More Halloween Fun

The girls were cheerleaders this year. (I don't know why Kayla felt she had to stick her cute belly out?) The community here is great. They do a Halloween carnival for the kids at the rec center. The girls loved playing the games and being with other kids. I liked it cuz it's safer and a whole lot warmer. The girls won the costume contest for theirgroup--ok every kid their age "won." Actually it wasn't too cold to take the girls trick-or-treating so we did that on our way back from the carnival. We went to a few houses around our house and they were so excited to have trick-or-treaters they practically dumped their whole candy bowl in to the girls bags. The neighborhood we live in is on the outskirts of town so they get few trick-or-treaters, plus it's an older neighborhood. It was a good way to meet our neighbors. "People here sure are friendly"--that's what Mckenna says! Halloween is so fun, but really every day is Halloween around here.

Happy Halloween

When we left Willcox, I had to take a picture of our friend. Appropriate for Halloween. I hope the new owners don't kill her. When she first started building her web she was tiny. She was eatin' good! I hate spiders, but one good thing about living in AZ was that I found out there is something worse than spiders--cock roaches. How can you see this and not think it was kind of

cool? Happy Halloween!

Back on Earth

We have finally got ourselves situated here in Maine. Just in time for the winter.. yesss. I know a lot of you are wondering if I was ever going to update. I'll start at the beginning. It has been a hectic and eventful month or two. We left Willcox to make the drive. If you're wondering how we got here these are the cities we spent the night in. Albuquerque, Amarillo, Tulsa, St. Louis, Louisville, Charleston, Harrisburg, Hartford, Portland, and finally here we arrived. Now here is where I would insert pictures of all these cool cities, but I left my camera in Willcox--actually I found it under my seat with a bunch of toys when we got here. I only thought I left it. We enjoyed watching the landscape change as we drove. There was so much to look at and take in... and so much for me to think about-- the drive never got boring. With two kids it did get loud and frustrating, but never boring. Thank goodness for DVD players.

For now we are living in a nice little basement apartment--small, but it works. We are going to buy something soon I think, but we are still cruisin the market. We have just been getting a feel for everything here and so far we really like it. It snowed tonight for the first time. Playing catch up isn't very fun. I can't write a tenth of what has been happening. This is all I got --with pictures to come as soon as I can swing it!

Good Bye

My friends here are the best. They did a little surprise goodbye lunch for me. It was so sweet of them! ( I love you guys! Thanks!) It is hard to leave. I never thought that Arizona would really feel like home, but it does. The movers are coming tomorrow and we will leave a few days after that. I will take us about 10 days to drive there (by the governments 300 miles/day rule). I will try to post as soon as I can with storied about how fun the drive there was! Anyway, This is me signing off from AZ.

Home for Now

We got back from our Maine house hunting trip a couple days ago so it's catch up time. I am getting a little sick of explaining where we will be--look for Caribou on the map. That's the place! It is so amazing there. I knew it was going to be beautiful, but pictures just are never like the real thing. We drove up to Caribou from Portland which is about a 5 hour drive. We spent some time up there meeting people and getting to know the area. I am feeling a little weird because people there were so nice. More than once I found myself looking around asking, "were you talking to me?" The lady at the drug store even let me use their "non-public" restroom. A couple of logger guys at Mcdonalds told me I was gorgeous. Nice confidence boost. We couldn't get out of the church because people wanted to talk to us--I'm sure us south-westerners are fascinating--that or just weird. I knew we stood out, but I don't know why ...... yet.

Here are a few pictures from out trip--with more to come in a month or so--I know you're all on the edge of your seat for every post, but I fear this will be my last until we get settled up there.

This is Old Orchard Beach just outside of Portland (really close to Biddeford-Caleb) We planned to go to the beach and were surprised when people were there in swimming suits--it was barely 70 -- Sorry I'm not in a swimming suit. I know you're all disappointed!


This is a really cool church in Portland. There are churches every where out there and each one is very unique.

This is Mars Hill. A popular ski resort area--if I remember right it will be about 1/2 hour from us. Notice the wind energy thingys--what are those called?

The other side of the river is Canada. We were considering a house on the river. Couldn't do that down south!!

If you look close you'll see a moose..this is pretty typical of what the landscape is like there. Unless there is a farm or a house it is just thick with trees.