Life in Provo

As I've been trying to catch up with the blog I found a bunch of pictures that I took during our last week or so of living in Provo. We sure enjoyed our time living together in Provo but we are excited to move on to a new part in our lives! 

These pictures don't really have any rhyme or reason but I want to have them in our family book! So here they are:

Kimbri got to watch movies while I tried to pack. Otherwise she would
unpack all my boxes faster than I could keep them packed! Haha.

She loves cereal, just like her dad :)

Lots of naked Garrett pics. We love his chubby rolls!

Kimbri with her binkies. 

Kimbri and Garrett sittin' on the couch together.

It was hot and they were both just in diapers so I had to snap a pic.

They both are a little unsure about this pic. Haha!

Kimbri trying to read a book to Garrett. She's so
cute always trying to help out, sometimes in not so
good ways, though like trying to feed him her bottle! 

I was in the middle of trying to pack, so Kimbri got
to watch Dora the Explorer.

She woke up with CrAzY hair!

Summer Lovin'

This is pretty much just going to be a little bit of a photo dump of the pictures I have for time we spent living in Spanish Fork. They kids just both loved being outside and it was fun to get to spend a lot of time together as a family!

Kimbri absolutely LOVES being outside. Anything to do with being outside, including being in water.   The trampoline was among her favorites of the outside activities at Grandma Haycock's house. At first she would try to say 'bounce' or 'jump' but it eventually became a combination of the two - 'bump'. She would go to the door and say 'bump' and we knew that, that meant she wanted to go jump on the tramp.

Doing tricks on the tramp.

Rides in the wagon with water and ducks! 

Helping to fill up the big pool. 

Uncle Zach played dress-up with Kimbri :)

Garrett is just growing so fast! We love our little man so much. His smile just melts my heart. And a huge thank you to Dawson and Stacie for letting us borrow Luke's clothes! Pretty much every picture on this post, Garrett is wearing Luke's outfits ;)

He discovered his hands and loves sucking on them!

The Nebraska gang was in town for Nolan's wedding and we got the two little boys together to take some pictures. They are exactly 4 months apart. Luke was born on Sept 4, 2012 and Garrett was born on Jan 4, 2013. They are going to be mischievous little boys some day, running around together getting into trouble. Haha!  

Garrett's shades. They're the perfect size!

Then Kimbri got jealous and decided to take them off...

...and wear them herself.

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:

Kimbri fell asleep with her finger in her mouth. Ha!

Getting out of the car to stretch for a while.

Date Night!

Rick and I got to go out twice this week! And we owe a HUGE thank you to my cousin, Allison, and my sister-in-law, Jessica!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! :)

Wednesday night Rick was invited to a dinner put on my Intermountain Healthcare for all those who had been accepted to medical school for this coming year. They fed us a very nice dinner (salad, a roll, some sort of delicious chicken and rice entree and an incredible raspberry dessert!) and gave a presentation. Their presentation was basically saying that they want doctors to move back to Utah after they finish their schooling and gave us a bunch of reasons why Utah is such a great place to live and work. Anyway, it was really fun to go out to dinner with Rick, without any kids. Thank you Allison for being willing to watch Kimbri and Garrett for us while we attended the dinner. 

Oh, and they also gave each future medical school student a $30 gift card to Barnes and Noble AND a $30 gift card to Olive Garden. Wahoo!! 

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Then last night, Jessica came over after she got off work and babysat for us. We had to run a couple errands and then went out to dinner at Olive Garden, again, thanks to Jessica! She gave Rick an Olive Garden gift card for his birthday last month.  

It was about a 30 minute wait so we walked across several parking lots to The Quarry - a rock climbing place - and picked up a $10 gift card that I won. Then we still had time to kill so we wandered through Shopko. We looked at the toddler underwear to try and find some "Dora the Explorer" underwear for Kimbri. We found some... but they were $10 just for 3 pair! So we'll look to see if Walmart is cheaper. If not, she will have to do with plain underwear. I was just thinking that it might be a good way to get her to understand not to pee in her panties, you know, saying something like, "Kimbri, you can't peepee on Dora, ok?" Haha! Anyway, we'll see what happens.

Anyway..... I got a little side-tracked there. But right as we were leaving Shopko, our buzzer rang so we booked it across the parking lot back to Olive Garden. As always, the food was way delicious!! I had a strawberry smoothie and vegetable lasagna and Rick got raspberry lemonade and the chicken alfredo pizza. We both tried food we haven't ever tried there before and it was great! And of course we got the free breadsticks and soup/salad that comes with the meal. Yummy!

It  was sooooooooooo fun to go out on a date with just the two of us. I love our kiddos but it was nice to just get to completely relax and spend some time together. So thank you Jessica for babysitting for us!!