MIA MIA MIA!

And no, I am not talking about mutual or girls camp of yesteryear or Mamma Mia. I have truly been missing in action. Only because we have been swallowed up in unpacking and getting settled. Oh, and we don't have internet set up for the time being. But I do live and we are doing well. I hope to get Halloween pics up soon. We made pancakes that looked like pumpkins this morning, gutted our pumpkin and cut out his facial features and Kyle has a costume parade and little program at his school this afternoon that I will leave to go to soon! Just wanted to check in and hope to be back to my blogging obession soon!

Drifting Away

Yesterday when we went out to the house, not only was the driveway drifted in but there was a GINORMOUS drift on our back porch. Sage and I and the kids went over today to clear some snow and I just had to shoot some pics of the kiddos playing in the snow.










(like the bright white gum?)

And who can resist a bite into the cold winter treat?

Oh, The snow came down and the e-elk came out...

The snow came down and the e-elk came out, the snow came down and the e-elk came out, and all of us stood in awe!

On Friday, Sage and I were going out to the house to do somethings and about a mile from our house, all of a sudden this huge herd of elk (3-400 head) crossed right in front of us. It was such an amazing sight and we could hardly believe our eyes. My camera on my phone wouldn't show a things so luckily, a friend of our friend, took these pictures.











And my favorite (not too clear because of the falling snow)..."Da Da":

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like..............

CHRISTMAS?!?!!!! Look at the beautiful sight we woke up to this morning....the temperature is another story but the snow is so pretty!







And my favorite---my little stair steps!



Kyle immediately said we needed to get our snow things on and go play. But with a 14 degree windchill, I don't think so today! They were excited and I just loved how they all "lined up" to look out!

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

I Crack Myself Up (Literally)

** Sing with me now....."Cuz I'm FREEEEE! Free falling!"**

So this post is a bit embarrassing for me because it shows how NOT graceful I can be but nevertheless, it is yet another humorous part of my life.

So a week ago, I was going downstairs to go to bed. As a last thought, I grabbed the camera that was a couple of feet above me on the banister. I guess that caused me to lose my balance because the camera went crashing down the stairs and so did I. And it wasn't a nice *clean* fall. I twisted this way and that, crashed into the wall, and miraculously stopped before I dove head first down the rest of the staircase.

My mom called from her bedroom, "Kimberly is that you?" **pause, pause** "Yes." "Did you fall down the stairs?" **pause, pause** "Are you okay?" **pause, pause** "Yes." After which I promptly went to my room and bawled in pain. Those pauses were trying to catch my composure so as to not bawl like a baby. I just saved that for the privacy of my room. So, as you might imagine, I was pretty sore the next day and even more sore the day after that. There was a spot on my foot that hurt worse than any part so on Thursday, I put a call into my orthopaedic surgeon's office. They sent me for xrays the the soonest I could get in was Monday (today). So apparently I have a small fracture on the outside of my left foot. Because nothing was displaced, not casting was required. Instead, I have this metal insert that will go with me (in my shoes) for the next 4-6 weeks. This also means I can't do physical therapy on my knee--which took a pretty good beating from the fall as well--and it didn't ANY help hurting.

So, yes....TOTAL clutz at that moment and one I am glad to not have on video tape. Just adds to my resume of doctors' office visits. If only those could qualify me for a high paying position. At least it's high entertainment!

Bittersweet

And I'm not talking about chocolate (surprise considering how much I've eaten lately....anywhooooo).

Today we closed on the sale of our house. It is surreal. And actually was quite bittersweet which TOTALLY threw me for a loop (since I am loopy anyway, I felt right at home ;-)!) I was not expecting to feel the mixture of emotions I did today while driving the 3+ hours to sign the papers. Here are just a few fond (and some not so fond yet funny now) experiences that I recall as I reminisce our time spent here:

**First real world move we made after Sage graduated

**First real world job

**A nice rental that we were SO lucky to find

**A rainy day when our car wouldn't start when we were supposed to leave town and I was BAWLING and upset when Sage came home so we went out to eat at a restaurant that came highly recommended. So we show up "as is" and I mean me in my sweats, and should've taken one look at the menu or anyone inside and walked right out. Apparently it is one of those *nice* restaurants that you dress up to go too. Oh, well. We ate there anyway with toddler in tow.

**Sheriff at our back door knocking after an awful night with sick kids and I had FINALLY gotten down for a nap

**SWAT team in our home, night spent at Branch President's home with screaming baby who we almost took to ER.

**suicidal neighbor (hence SWAT team)

**driving back and forth and back and forth AND back and forth

**Bought our first house

**SURPRISE positive pregnancy test!

**LONG work hours for Sage.....four on, four off, 12 hour shifts but Sage gone for over 15 hours

**Pilot and Houdini our kitties who disappeared after touching our lives for a short time

**Babe and Dotty the neighbors dogs (aka our lawn fertilizers)

**trips back and forth, back and forth, back AND forth

**Surprise visit from a friend after I had Aubrey with a pair of matching nice snuggly socks for Aubrey and I

**cooked meals brought to us

**Hanging out at our friends' houses

**wild turkey kabobs

**elk stew

**church in a triple wide

**brand new church

**relief society presidency

**driving back and forth, back and forth, back and forth

**baby shower thrown for me (and Aubrey) when it was -18 degrees outside and there was still a good turn out

**many nights rocking my babies

**the sound of the train at night

**fireworks from the neighbors all night long

**smell of new house I LOVED until I was sick with morning sickness

**trips back and forth, back and forth, back and forth

**taking Kyle to the Frosty Freeze for ice cream

**malts at the Prospector

**meals at The Country Skillet

**drives in the mountains

**fires that shut down the mine a few days

**watching the fires

**driving back and forth, back and forth, back and forth

**visits from family members

**bought our first car AND first truck together

**selling our house

**driving back and forth, back and forth, back and forth

**many more but I think that will do for today =)

Fill in the Blank

I was not really sure exactly how to title this post as there are too many options floating in my brain. Here's what we've come up with:

Homeless and Happy
If You're Happy and You Know It
Born Free
Going, Going, Gone
Home Sweet Homeless
Where the Streets Have No Names

Well, you get the picture and to help get the picture a bit more.....um, well, here's a picture!



Except instead of "sale pending" it should now read SOLD!!!