Week 40-Establishing Home

Upon searching every source we have, we discovered there wasn't a single picture taken of moving weekend. I'm okay with that. Couper and I were both out of our minds with fatigue, it was dreary, and pouring rain, there was much to do. Pictures were not at the fore-front of our minds.

Em was lucky and excited to have a sleepover at Grammie and Papa Whitney's Saturday night so Coup and I (along with awesome family and friends!!! Gratitude can't be expressed enough!) could get the truck unloaded and furniture situated. Our biggest goal that weekend was to get Em's room set up so she would have a comfortable and safe place to be until the rest of the house followed suit.

Em has already collected a plethora of stuffed animals at her young age and Coup found the perfect solution to displaying them in her new space. (Along with my plethora of books, heehee.)

Grateful to say Em loves her new room and transitioned like a champ. She hardly even seemed to notice we had switched locations. Aside from asking on a daily basis to see her grandparents and aunts and uncles that lived so close in Logan! That was heartbreaking, grateful for pictures, skype, phone, and still not being that far away :).

Em slept extremely well those first few weeks and obviously made herself right at home with exploration and creativity. (And I just can't stand the cuteness of a toddler bum in skinny jeans ;) )

We all love our new area so far and are excited to become more familiar with people and places! But first, off to the post office where our new P.O. box is a little piece of heaven for this little one.

Hmm..sometimes we do hair and get dressed around here I promise.

Week 22-Lava

A Lava Get-away...

I was somehow able to keep this trip a surprise for almost three months! Way to be.

As a special way to say "Congraduation" and "I love you, has it really been six years?" I booked us two nights at a quaint Bed and Breakfast in Lava Hot Springs, ID. A big part of the surprise was that it was just going to be an adult trip. Em had her first sleepover with Grammie-Debbie and mom and dad (we) couldn't stop thinking about her our whole time away; but were able to rest easy knowing she was in good hands :).

Our first stop was Smiths...I've always wanted to raid the bulk aisle and just buy a teeny bit of a whole bunch of things I want to try...so that we did! (...we had more than half of it left over upon returning home...over excited much?) If you had this urge/it's on your weird bucket list, follow through, it's worth it in stares and fun.

Not gonna lie..we were a bit confused with our first B&B experience...having no idea what to expect. We had a great time and our Inn Keepers were super friendly and accommodating. Luckily we're pretty good at going with the flow and pretending like we know what we're doing. My recommendation to you other B&B amateur's is to read up on B&B etiquette beforehand...just to feel prepared.

Our favorite things probably consisted of: non-stop Rod Stewart and Michael Buble serenade, and our first breakfast in a small, European-esque parlor type dining area seated next to three elderly women speaking German whilst eating crumpets and drinking coffee.

Despite wicked allergies amongst a white (dandelions) golf course speckled in green (not kidding...really not very well kept, I took one look and my sneeze sneezed...if you know what I mean), I had an enjoyable time letting Couper coach me through my first real nine holes of golf....he was very patient :).

The springs were...hotter than we remembered. But relaxing and pretty vacant. We loved "discovering" the walking trail that leads above the hot pools into the "Sunken Gardens" and looking out over the cute town.

Our "fancy" evening out with live music was...much different than anticipated! Haha, we had a lot of laughs as we were served expensive food whilst sitting in a small basement by ourselves (the majority of the time), by our waitress wearing jeans and a t-shirt, and serenaded by one guitar playing musician...five feet away from us. LOL. Not much could have prepared us for the whole of it, but it was still fun to have a "date-night". And we actually ended up quite liking "our" musician; check him out: Lang Termes.

Hope you know how much I love and appreciate you Coup! You're my best friend.

These pictures pretty much speak for themselves; but I'm pretty sure Em didn't mind her first sleepover at Grammie's! Her stay pretty much consisted of all of her favorite things (minus horses, haha).

(so glad M strategically kept things modest ;) )

Week 10-"C" is for Cookie...

..and C-ya Crawling and sCooting. Em has taken great STRIDES this week in a new aCcomplishment.

If you've made the time to SAUNTER over to our little JOG of the inter-web, you will be to happy know it's TROT a joke that little Em took her first independent STEPS this week! However, inTREAD of PARADING around the house, she STROLL prefers the scoot and crawl. We've only slowly HIKED through the beginning of MARCH though. There's plenty of PACE in the days to see her successfully PROMENADE around each room in time. We're so proud! But not looking forward to the bumps and CRUISES. 

(I know, I really over-did it ... not in a good way. It was late. Good luck interpreting them all.)

Her daddy picked out the adorable shoes. Although Sesame Street is still foreign to her, she is IN LOVE with these! Her precious teeny feet are compliments of Gramma Nec's genes!