A year ago(nearly to the day) we packed a moving truck, said goodbye to our friends, family, and our first home and moved back home, back to Arizona. And what a crazy year it's been! Time has flown by and our little family has been through a lot of changes, mostly good. We spend 7 months living with Jason's wonderful parents who were so generous to put up with us there for so long, while we searched for, purchased and built a home that'd be perfect for us.
Thinking back on the last year makes me realize how terrible I have been at documenting our lives along the way, and how important it is to me to hold on to every memory for my kids and for me, seeing as it seems my memory is a little worse all the time and the little moments I want to hold on to forever are slipping away. So, I'm going to play a little bit of catch up here of some big moments, then back to working hard at keeping this up
The girls started at their new school in the fall, Lilly in Kindergarten and Mia in 2nd grade. We LOVE their new school and the girls are both doing great there. Making lots of friends and both learning and growing every day. So proud of them and the amazing little girls that they are.
In October, my wonderful parents took us along with most of our siblings on a cruise to the bahamas! We left Noah behind with Nonna and took the girls to Florida to set sail. We all had such a fun time. Eating everything in site and playing all we could. The girls got to stay up really late every night playing at their kids club, doing facepaint, and learning magic tricks, catching super villians, and hanging out with sponge bob. We made 3 stops, St Thomas, Tortola and Nassau. They were all amazing and beautiful! Mia fell in love with snorkeling at an amazing nearly private beach we found in Tortola and spent all day in the water. We got to collect big huge conk shells on a beautiful white sandy beach in Nassau and spent the day shopping and feeding fish in St Thomas. Our ship was topped with 4 huge water slides, a sponge bob splash bad, a big ropes course with a plank you could walk out 16 stories high over the ocean for the most amazing view! We spent 7 days relaxing and enjoying and the girls are begging every day to go back
As soon as we got home, we got to move in to our new home! We settled in quickly and love it here. We have made so many new friends here and we are all loving it. As much as we miss my family and our friends in Utah, our family is very happy and loving it here. Can't wait to see what the future brings for our new warm weather life!
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