Update Anyone?

Ok, so I know I'm a month late on the update, but hey, we've been busy.
So, from the beginning...
Everything went through with the house great! We got everything shipped, and taken care of just in the nick of time.
Unfortionately our vehicles still have not sold. They will though, one way or another. So if anyone knows of anyone looking for a truck or car, let us know.
We flew out of fairbanks saterday, January 28th @ about 10:25 pm. We made it to the airport just in time (@ -50 degrees i might add). We got there, got checked in, got thru security, got to the gate and there was no waiting, they loaded us up and closed the doors...wheeew! We made it on every flight with no problems at all. Sleeping wasn't happening for me though at all, with Ben sleeping and me having to hold both the boys most of the time, it wasn't working. But we made it sunday morning at 9:00am ( it was 50 degrees i might add, yep 100 degrees difference!!! it was so warm!!!). Amber picked us up from the airport and took us to her parents house. Everyone made plans for us really quick to stay with Lonnie & Jenifer until we found our own place. I HUGE thank you to them, and Adam for bunking up on the couch so we could have his room :)!
I had told Simone that she needed to not have her baby until we got here cause I wanted to see her brand new. It worked! She went into labor the morning we got in and had her that afternoon. So yes, I got to see her brand new, and she is just so precious! They named her Challis Ember Elison, and she is so fun!
OK, moving on...
Needless to say I had SERIOUS jett-lagg. And it took me a good 3 days of napping and sleeping a ton at night to get over it. But I did get over it :)
Being here has been great! Lots of Mommies in the Fam are homeschooling and we get together about once a month or so to do little fieldtrips and such. In February we went to Ben's Aunt and Uncles to see their sheep. They have TONS! It was the perfect day to go too. The sun was out, they got to feed some of the lambs, round them up, watched while uncle Ray docked the lambs tails, marked their ears, and castrated the little male lambs :(, and they even got to see one be born. The kids loved it!
We are loving it here. The kids play outside all the time, they have wonderful little cousins to play with, wonderful family who are willing to babysit, and we have family get togethers all the time. We go shopping, fishing, sight-seeing, and wistle-pig shooting. We have BBQ's all the time, play dodge-ball, soccer, go swimming, work in the gardens and yards, watch movies, and just hang out. It's been so great for us to be here, we have truely missed our sweet, kind, and most generous family members!
We are still living with Uncle Lonnie & Aunt Jenifer for the time being, but will be moving into my Grandpa & Grandma Pulleys old house at the end of April. We are so excited!
The Kids our doing great.
Kyzer plays outside almost 24/7 and is already turning brown. He loves it here, and sure enjoys having his cousins to play with all the time. He takes good care of his little brother, is very protective and loves to tease and play with him. He loves the Animals and loves to ride Ponchy* or Boots ( the pony ).
Korben loves to be outside too. He loves the trampoline, the animals, and balls! He has been walking since 9 months and you can't keep him out of anything. He is so smart, I  always think he is older than he is, and I'm not the only one. He will be 1 year on April 7th (:( where has my baby gone?) and is doing wonderful!
Ben has been working for his Cousin Nick mostly and his Uncle Lonnie when Nick doesn't have anything going. I just stay home and take care of the kids and play and visit with Family.
We are doing great and are looking forward to the coming summer ahead of us!

The Update you've all been waiting for...

Well, Kyzer is watching a movie and Korben just went down for a nap, so I thought I would get this update done.
As I think most of you know, we have been thinking about moving to Idaho for a while now and knew that we would eventually end up there, we just weren't sure when was the right time to go. For a year now we have been feeling that we just needed to hurry and get the house finished and up for sale. So, all last year we worked really hard on getting the house all finished up and finally got it up for sale in november( about a week before thanksgiving ). We weren't looking to make any money off of it really, but because we got the First Time Home Buyers Credit, we had to pay that back. (for those who don't know, if you received the FTHBC and sold your house before 3 years of living in it, you had to pay back a portion of it, in our case we just had to pay any extra that we got out of the house. So after paying the realtor and all the closing cost and anything that was required to be fixed, the rest goes back to the FTHBC). So, in order for us to walk away without writing a check from our own pocket, we set our asking price to 149,995. In 3 weeks we had our first showing on the house, and everything went great! They loved the house and put an offer in on it within 2 days of the showing. We did have to counter offer because we would have had to write out a check for 1,600 out of pocket with their offer. Within a matter of a few hours our realtor called us and said that they had accepted the counter offer and signed the deal. YAY!!! We really could not believe how well everything went. Things got rolling right away. They got the engineers report done before Christmas, the appraisal done right after Christmas,and our well and septic test done about a week later. There were a couple routine things that were required by the engineer that we got taken care of and one miner thing with the well head that we fixed. Easy breazy! So everything is done and ready to close. Ben's last day of work is the 25th and we just set the closing date as the 27th. Yes, its all just one week away, crazy! We sold our truck, couch,and dining table set, we have just a couple other big things to get rid of and we should be set to go. My Aunt is shipping all of our stuff for us and we will be flying down. Our friend will be selling our car for us after we leave because Ben needs a way to get to work until then. So, a big THANK YOU to Julie and Jason for helping us out! You have truly saved us.
We are very excited to get to Idaho and be warm again! We will for sure miss Alaska, but NOT Fairbanks by any means. Yes, we will miss a few things like, friends, family, and TURTLE CLUB! ...But, we have never liked Fairbanks and are very excited to be getting out of here :)I'm sure it's not the most horrible place in the world, but it's not for us.
So long Fairbanks!!! HELLO IDAHO (AKA...HOME)!!! :)

Cutting back on blogging

Since I started this blog, my Journaling, scrapbooking, scripture reading, exercising, and excessive cleaning have gone WAY down hill. This is bugging me more and more all the time. So here is my solution... This is no longer a picture blog. I thought about getting rid of it all together but didn't really want to do that, so I thought maybe I could just up-date it once a month but then the dumb thing is telling me that I have used up all my picture space so I either have to delete a ton of pictures or pay for more space. We are working on becoming more self-Suffitient (will write more about this in another post) and spending more money once a year is not helping in that department, so I will not be paying for more space. I will simply be updating the blog once a month with a written post...simple as that. We may eventually be getting rid of it all together, but for now we will keep it open and see if it is of any interest to anyone.
On another note: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Let's keep our New Years Resolutions this year!!!