Thing 1 & Thing 2

Our New Home

Our Kitchen

The View from Our Room

Our cute girls in our hotel room!

Our Move to Peace & Safety ~

Wow So much has happened in the past week, so I’ll just jump right in. We moved! Yep we are now off the property that we manage Halleluiah! Can I get a AMEN! I have lived where I work for almost 5 years and let me tell you very honestly it SUCKS! I have never been a real fan of living where I work because you pretty much feel like you are working 24/7. People bug you at all hours of the night and day. Living on site is like having a flashing neon sign all around your home that says here we are! We use to just be bothered with little things (at the time I thought they were so annoying) like “we locked ourselves out of our house”, or “we are going to pay rent late”, or “my neighbors are loud”. Yeah those were the days, now we get our boat set on fire, death threats (yes plural), and tenants that come over to say “our neighbors are selling meth out of their unit”,” Our neighbor is beating his wife and she is screaming for help”, the repo man is here and need to get his stuff back”, our gas was stolen out of our cars”, kids bullying my kids saying “your parent are kicking us out and we don’t have any where to go”, or “ there is a man looking in our windows at night”. And the list could go on and on and on. It is RIDICULOUS! What a different world it is here in Arizona. So anyways after a not so pleasant week and some not so pleasant words from some not so pleasant people, we packed up and left! We stayed in a hotel for a night because we were not safe at home (you remember the flashing neon sign) the girls thought we were just having a mid week get a way, we did not want to scare them. Meanwhile I was a wreck and trying so hard to keep it together. It really was one of the worst weeks that we have has here. I have never felt so unsafe. We have learned that you don’t ever underestimate what a people are capable of doing and continuing to put our family’s safety at risk was just not an option. So we found a house and pretty much moved overnight. I can not even put into words the feeling of peace I felt our fist night here. It has been a long time since I could close my eyes and really sleep. We are so blessed to have such wonderful friends here who jumped in at literally a moments notice to help us move and get settled so quickly. That is one of the greatest blessing we have had since we moved here, we have made such great life long friendships here. We love and adore you all! Amazing things happen when you put all your faith in the Lord and allow his hand to guide your life.

My Sis ~

I'm Missing my sister today. We always have such good times together! Love you Kacie xoxoxox

New Years Eve~

We spent new years with Gordon's family. Gordon's son, Danenon was able to come and hang out with us. We were all so excited to see him! He got his mission call and was called to serve in Taiwan. He goes into the MTC tomorrow. We are very proud of him.
We played "The Amazing Race" with all of Gordon's family. It was soooo much fun. We were in 5 teams and had to get through challenges and road blocks. We had to eat donuts with no hands, we had to find and chew gum from a bowl of cool whip, we had to hold a yoga pose, we had to play but quarters (that was hilarious)and complete trivia questions. It was a blast! It was fun to be together.

Christmas Fun with the Curtis Fam!

Our Little Miss Mallorie ~

I feel like I have soooo much to post but I am so crazy busy, I hate it! I will do a quick one from Mallorie's Spelling Bee. She made it to compete with the other top students from her school. She was super nervous and did not win, but bless her little heart she tried. That is WAY more then I ever would! While I'm talking about little miss Mallorie, she said the funniest thing the other day and I need to get it down. So we are driving in the car and the girls start asking a lot of questions about food storage. they wanted to know why we need to stock up on food. I explained that someday we will not be able to just run to the store to grab food, We have been told to be prepared. So without missing a beat Mallorie's says "That's it mom, no more unnecessary spending! No buying decorations for the house and no clothes! Just stock up on food." Gordon and I were laughing so hard. That kid says the darnedest things!