WE'RE MOVING!!!

As many of you may have heard we're moving. Joel and I have decided to move back to my home town in Arizona. We are all so excited, and when I say "all" I mean my mother too. She has been trying to get us to move down over the past few years, but nothing ever comes of it. Now it's the real deal, although she still says she'll believe it when she sees the moving van in her driveway. Make room.....here we come!
I've already put my two weeks in at work (I'm gonna miss all the girls I've worked with, they are such a blast) and my final day Saturday the 23rd. Then its a week of packing up, garage sale and getting everything organized. Ellie and I will head down on the 4th of June and Joel will join us the following month or so. I'm planning on teaching swim lessons, which I'm really excited for and then eventually getting back to doing hair. Unless Joel's other moving plans come into play...
Joel always has to take it to the next level. The plan is to move to Hawaii and live there for a year or so. Sounds crazy I know. Joel started school not too long ago on-line and came to the conclusion that since he's doing it on-line he can do it anywhere, so why live in cold Idaho when we could be living on a beach? Who knows if this will really happen, but I told him if he can find a decent job and were not scraping by month-to-month, then I'm all for it. Plus I figure if were ever going to do something crazy like this, we might as well do it now while it's easier for our little family to move around. We're shooting for sometime after August, so we'll let you know if our big plans come about.
Were going to miss all our friend and family here in Idaho. Everyone has been so good to us and we appreciate all the love and kindness. We will miss you and always be thinking of you, wherever we may be. Hopefully we'll be able to visit often, love you all!

IN HER SHOES

Ellie has a shoe fetish and loves wearing other peoples shoes. She thought she was so big while wearing my wedges and was actually able to walk around in them. Shes growing up so fast and is going to be wearing some of her own in no time.

BANGS!!!

As a last minute, spontaneous thing while getting my hair done I decided to cut some bangs. Now I've never really had bangs before unless you count when I was little in the 80's and had the big poof bang. At first I wasn't too sure of them, but now I've grown to like them. Its been a fun change, although its still taking some getting use to. What do you think?

EASTER

After church on Sunday we decided to go on a family drive. We ended up at the temple and took some cute pictures of Ellie in her Easter dress.

LITTLE SWIMMER!

DRY ICE FUN!

While visiting Arizona, Grandma made some home made root-beer. Ellie had tons of fun playing with the dry ice smoke. Our little witch went right to work making potions.

ST. PATRICKS DAY!

BEARDED MAN

Joel decided to grow his beard out for part of the winter. Then he had fun with it when it came to shaving it. Ill just let the pictures do the talking...

VALENTINES DAY!

We got Ellie this cute little puppy that walks and barks for Valentines Day. For those of you who know her know how obsessed she is with dogs, or any animal for that matter. It was funny to see her with this dog though because she was so scared of it. She wasn't sure what to make of it. She would do this nervous laugh thing, it was priceless. After a little bit of getting use to it, she grew to love it and couldn't get enough. Now we're wishing we never got it for her... she wants it on ALL the time.
Joel wrapped this beautiful present for me, I was so impressed. He got me this really cute purse. It was so nice of him. I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful husband, especially one i can always count on to give me a good laugh... I love you babe!

EATIN GRUB!

So we're a little behind on keeping up with our blog. Joel and I have been busy renovating his parents house, so its been taking up all our free time. Here is what you've missed the last few months and sorry for the delay. By the way, here's our little El eating some yummy food a making a mess of it. What a cutie!