The Stone Family: It's Been a While...

Well what a couple months it has been! And I haven't blogged during that whole couple of months. Things have been so so busy but life couldn't be better!

Wow. There is so much to catch up on. I'm not even sure where to even begin.

I guess the last time I posted anything was mid-April. Around that time Rick was finishing up at BYU with the last few days of classes and then finals all while I was trying to pack boxes here and there in between naps and making meals for Kimbri and nursing a baby and just handling life in general.

Kimbri sure enjoyed playing in the empty boxes! Ever since moving to that house we saved all the boxes we got from buying diapers and wipes, etc because we knew we'd be moving after Rick's graduation. There was an outdoor shed/storage thing and we seriously saved boxes for that whole year and a half! We had plenty of boxes when it came time to pack up our house for our Arizona move!

Then right after that, on April 26, my little brother, Nolan, got married to Brooke Comstock in the Salt Lake Temple. That same day just happened to be graduation for BYU. Haha. What a day! We were exhausted by the end of the day. But we were so happy that we got to be a part of Nolan and Brooke's wedding and that we also made it in time so that Rick could walk at graduation.

We took a few photos out in front of our house before we walked up to the Marriot Center for the actual graduation ceremony. I am so in love with my boys!

This is the only picture I have after graduation was over with all of our family. Kimbri was obviously totally worn out after a long day of wedding and graduation stuff! She wasn't in much of a smiley mood... but then again, it's always hard to get her to smile for a picture. You really have to work for it.

Anyway, I'm so proud of Rick and all that he has accomplished. I know I've mentioned it before but he worked so hard during his undergrad to complete all his shadowing hours, volunteering hours, lab hours in the Neuroscience department, etc, in order to get ready for applying to medical school. Let alone the enormous amounts of time and energy he had to put in to writing essays and filling out applications to actually apply to medical school! He did all that on top of going to school, getting good grades, working at the MTC, working as a scribe in the Payson Hospital ER, and being an amazing father and husband! He is seriously incredible!! And I love him :)

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After all of the wedding and graduation festivities, we moved just a couple days later. I can't even express how grateful we were to be able to live in Spanish Fork with my parents for about 6 weeks to save money on rent. Thank you mom and dad! A mere "thank you" doesn't even do it justice. But we are soooo grateful.

So we moved on April 30 and stored most all of our belongings in our parents' garage. Some stuff was in Salem and some was in Spanish Fork. Another thank you to each of our parents for letting us use their garages as temporary storage units.

We got all moved in and unpacked, only to re-pack a suitcase a couple days later to make a trip to Arizona to look for housing. We stayed with Rick's cousin Shelby and her husband, Rue. It was a quick trip and we fell in love with the first house we looked at. We looked at some apartments as well but with rent being cheaper to rent a whole house over a small apartment, we obviously really wanted the house! We filled out an application and then had to play the waiting game. We drove back to Utah and found out within just a couple of days that we got the house. Yay!

(On the drive home we also discovered that Kimbri gets motion sickness. We therefore will ALWAYS pack Dramamine with us whenever we go on long drives so we don't have to clean up throw-up 9 different times! Gross.)

Anyway, long story short we got our dream house for while we live in Arizona. We are so excited!

Here are some pictures from our quick trip to AZ: