AZ to UT

May 21, 2016 was the day we moved from Arizona to Utah. We said goodbye to the place we had lived for 3 years. The place we brought Brenna home from the hospital. The home where we made so many memories. The place where we went through really hard things - med school - and became stronger because of it. It was really hard to say goodbye. My heart had fallen in love with Arizona, the friends we made, the things we experienced, the places we often visited... but now we were off on a new adventure! Arizona will always hold a special place in my heart.

Bye, bye house!

Kimbri by the trailer.

Brenna did so amazing on the drive!

We ran into a little bit of trouble with the trailer tire riding
way too low. So we had to stop on our way out of town to
get it replaced. After a few hours of having to wait we
got back on the road!

Utah, here we come!

The kids had all spent more of their life living in Arizona than they did Utah, so moving to Grandma and Grandpa's was really fun for them! They thought living so close to mountains was really cool. Over the course of the next week or so, the kids got to play and get to know cousins better, play in the Grandma and Grandpa Haycock's backyard all the time, and ride horses. They loved it all!

Olivia and Kimbri

At the Mapleton Library

At Mapleton City park.

Garrett became obsessed with this little red 4 wheeler. He
wanted to constantly be on it!

Dawson, Ava, Olivia, Kimbri, Oaklee, Nolan

Zach showing Kimbri the baby kitties.

Having so much fun in Utah that they zonked!

Luke & Kimbri in their pjs.

Luke & Garrett, also in pjs.

Another picture of Kimbri so worn out from playing so hard.

Girls day out with Grandma Tammy, Olivia,
Brenna and me.

Brenna snoozing on Uncle Preston's lap.

Grandpa Lyle with the 3 girls!
Brenna, Hadley, Ava

Some of Kimbri's Preschool Projects

Here are a few of Kimbri's preschool projects from throughout the year. I tried to be good and remember to take pictures of all her preschool artwork, and I'm sure I forgot to take pictures of some of them, but here is what I do have to help her remember some of her year of preschool.

Going on a bear hunt map (top right)

Peter Piper Pizza field trip- in the kitchen learning how they
make pizzas! Then they got to make their own little personal
size pizza :)

Kimbri's "All About Me" poster for when she
was the star of the week at preschool.

Not a preschool thing but Kimbri loves
playing with these shapes and makes really
cool designs all by herself!

Kimbri's preschool Easter egg hunt.

Sea Life Aquarium

Right before moving we took a trip to the Sea Life Aquarium. It was really fun and the kids had a blast... but, we definitely would NOT have gone if we could've avoided it. Rick had asked a doctor that he had previously rotated with to write a letter of recommendation for the upcoming residency applications. She said she would. Great! Well after several months of her forgetting or just not getting around to it, or whatever it was, she finally responded with, "How about we meet up at the aquarium with our kids so I can chat with you and be able to write a better letter." She had no idea we were literally going to be packing up a trailer and moving just a couple days later and we had a million other things to do. Not to mention we are totally broke med students. Did she not remember how much med school costs?!?! But we felt like we couldn't say no because we didn't want to make things awkward... so we forked over the money and went. 

Like I said, it was fun and really neat (Garrett LOVED it because he is so in to anything ocean related) but I had a hard time being there for as long as we were because of how much we still needed to get done before moving! Yikes! Here are some pictures I snapped while we were there: