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!!!

Our Precious Boys

The Jewels of our life!

We will do whatever it takes to make sure these boys are safe and treated as they deserve. As everyone deserves to be treated decent. 

They will NOT get in trouble for defending themselves, PERIOD! As I don't think that anyone should get in trouble for defending themselves from them. 

FACT: We ALL make mistakes.

FACT: We all need to be loved.

FACT: We all need to be treated equally.

Ben & I strive each and every day to do this, and YES we often fail, but the Lord knows we are trying and that is all that really matters. I LOVE my family as well as Ben's. Each and EVERY one of them. They have all taught me things in my life and I am so grateful for that.  I never have and never will disown them (regardless of what some may think). I know I don't say "I Love You" as much as I should and that is something I am working on every single day. 

I LOVE YOU ALL!!!

My Husband and kids will always come first!

Nov. 3rd

 Nov. 4th

Thanks for being a part of our lives!

Mormon Messages: What Matters Most

Crawling Korben

One day is all it took, yep November 2nd was the day and only day it took him to figure out how to crawl. The little bugger is a very fast learner and we are so proud of him! With Kyzer things were a little slower, he did the scooting thing for about 2 months before he decided he would crawl, then it was a good 4 months before he would walk willing. Korben is a whole other story! This little guy scooted for about 2 days, that wasn't enough, after those two days he crawled and never scooted again. He is now EVERYWHERE, and fast too! He started crawling 5 days before he turned 7 months. After about a week, he decided he needed to stand up to everything. He is getting very good at pulling himself up to pretty much anything, and is even trying to walk along stuff too. He wants to walk so bad! He loves to hang on to Kyzer and me and walk around the stores! Go, Go, Go is his motto :)

November 1st

We never did get around to getting a pumpkin and carving it before Halloween this year, but we did go to the store on Halloween and the pumpkins were really cheap, so Ben and I decided we could get it and carve it the next day and let Kyzer enjoy it for a few days. So we did! Kyzer thought it was fun and it felt good to let him in on a project again.

At first he was a little grossed out by digging out the guts, but did it anyway...

 ...and after a while he didn't mind so much and was VERY proud of his work.

 It turned out pretty cute!

October

Sadly, I did not take very many pictures at all the month of October. I guess we were just so busy with the house and everything, I just ran out of time to do so. But I did take a few, and I am Happy with the ones I got!

2nd

He loves his walker & water :)

7th

up on all fours, trying to figure out the whole crawling thing 

 This one captures both their personalities so well :)

17th

drooly man

27th

I don't remember taking this picture so it must have been Ben. It's just so pretty up here in the winter!!!

28th

Oohhh....

 cheeseball!!!

 mhhmmm

We went trick-or-treating with Nic & Katelyn this year. While we were in town getting the kids ready to go, the heater fan went out in our truck and it was cold that night. So, Ben worked on that the entire time while Katelyn and I walked the kids around from door to door and Nic followed us in their car so we could get in every once in a while to warm up. Korben fell asleep right as we were getting started so he stayed in the truck the whole time (in his costume which kept him perfectly warm, while daddy worked on the heater), Evelyn went to about the first 5 houses and then hung with Nic in the car the rest of the time because it was just too cold for her, so it was basically Just Savannah and Kyzer the whole time. They had so much fun and never wanted to get in and warm up. I think we warmed up 3 times in the whole 2 hours we were out there because they didn't think they were very cold. Kate and I sure got cold though...brrrr. Anyways, I took my camera but never did get any pictures taken because it was a busy night. katelyn got one of the group ( - Korben) before we started, so I'll try and get a copy and post it later. Savannah went as an ADORABLE Flamingo ( seriously, it was so stinking cute to walk behind her and see her little pink butt and tail bouncing around), Evelyn was a cupcake ( the cutest ever), Kyzer was a Pirate ( the coolest, cutest, awesomest pirate ever), and Korben was a Lion ( his tail was the best).  It was so cute, before we got started we were prepping Ky on what to say when they opened the door. We told him to say Trick-or-Treat, and once they gave him the candy to say "I'm a Pirate... AARRRRR".  This is what he said at the first house when they opened the door " I'm a Piyet...yYAarrrrrr!". It was seriously so stinking funny, I almost died laughing!

Blake Shelton - God Gave Me You (Official Video)

To sum-up September...

Now that I've got all the videos from september posted. Here are the pictures to sum it up :)

5th

Gangsta??

 7th

5 months old and starting on Veggies :)

 8th

Loves his water...

...and loves to eat Jon's hair!

 10th

Korben loves music! He especially loves it when his daddy plays Guitar and sings to him :)

 13th

Kyzer drew all over Korben's arms with a pen, and he thought it was pretty funny :)

 Beautiful fall view from my living room :)

 

15th

"Peanut Butter, Jelly Time"

20th

watchin' momma make dinner :)

23rd

Girls are vicious! :( poor guy, his face swelled up pretty good too :(

26th

Yummy Cheatos

28th 

Sharing :)

 Mallos!!!

30th

On our way to Chena Hot Springs

 They love swimming!