January and February 2009

I know, I know.... this is a year too late you say. But you have to understand, we had a very crazy 2009. It actually started at the end of 2008 with the birth of our fifth child, James, in November and then a job offer for Ben in December. I am recapping our year more for my sake than anything else. I was feeling a little sad that I didn't do a lot of posting last year. So here it goes...a quick review of 2009. Here is January and February. The rest will come later.

February 2009

The Move

On February 12th after the stress of keeping our house spotless with five kids so we could hopefully sell it we packed up our unsold house and moved to Las Vegas. Shortly after we moved we did sell for a little more than our asking price. Although we lost a ton of money we were glad we were able to sell it.

January 2009

House-hunting in Vegas

In January 2009 Ben, Elora, James and I went on a house hunting trip to find a new home in Las Vegas where Ben was getting a promotion with State Farm. It was a little challenging putting two little ones in and out of the car as we looked at dozens of houses. They were both so good though and although it was a difficult and stressful time trying to find a home in four days, we actually had a great little bonding time with Elora. We had decided to bring her at the last minute so we didn't really have any toys for her. At night she played with Fruit cups and other little snacks Ben's Aunt Nancy gave her. She stacked them and sorted them and put them in grocery sacks. She was an angel all week. My wonderful sister Beth, another angel, watched the other 3 kids for us while we were gone!

We had to take a little time off house hunting to play at the park which was probably good for all of us!