Well it's been 2 years since I've posted anything! I guess I should do a quick update. This post won't have any pictures because my camera is broken right now.
    We lived the last 3 years in Chubbuck, ID while Rick went back to school at ISU to get another bachelor degree in health physics. We enjoyed our time there, but couldn't wait for him to be done with school so we could move on to the next stage in life. This last February Rick got hired for a full time job as a Health physicist at International Isotopes (it started part time and would move to full time when he graduated in May). We felt so blessed  to get this job- it was the 1st job he even applied to and it was in Idaho Falls! After graduation, we moved to I.F. and lived with Rick's family, hoping his job would move to full time and we could start looking for a house. However, the company told Rick they couldn't hire him full time until they got their funding. So we had a very stressful summer of working part time and wondering when he would get hired, wondering if he would get hired, praying to know if we should look for another job. We finally started applying to jobs all over the country and feeling very frustrated. Then the next week he was told he had the full-time job! What a huge blessing. All the waiting and the prayers and the patience paid off. And we feel so grateful to have found this job so quickly, especially during this poor economic time.
     Well, I had started looking for houses back in February and had continued through the summer. So by the time we were eligible to buy a house, we really knew what we wanted. We found a house in Rigby, ID  two weeks later and put an offer in for the house on our anniversary-August 13th :)  Our house closed Sept 21 and we finally have a home!!  Yea!! We waited a long time for this and so we are really appreciating it. So needless to say, we tried to do several projects at once. The back yard was lacking grass- so we prepared the ground and raked it the week before we moved in. On moving day, we also planted grass. Were we crazy? Just a little bit! The house we bought is on 1 acre, so we planted a pretty big back yard- without a sprinkler system. I didn't realize how much work we got ourselves into. Let's just say that watering the yard took a lot of my time during the 1st couple of weeks. But now that the grass is coming up, it is so rewarding to see the little blades of grass growing!
    Project #2 with our home: The house we bought just had gray siding on the outside- no brick or color to it. My dad is a bricklayer and got us a pretty awesome deal on some brick and rock. So the Saturday after we moved in, plus 3 more Saturdays, my dad put some brick and rock on our house (Rick mixed the mortar and helped with the hod-carrying job). They did such a good job on the house- it looks like a whole new place! I'll have to post pictures when I can.
   Well, as for our kids: Brigham is in 1st grade now and is now reading. I have to work at helping him enjoy reading.He is a smart little guy! Peyton is doing a preschool group with me and some other moms and seems to like that. I think he is enjoying being with some other kids again! Bailey is now 2 1/2 and growing up quickly! I just started officially potty training her today! She has been using the potty for a while and has been very interested. She just had to wait for mommy to jump on the ball and potty train her (I think I had a good excuse with moving and all!)
     Anyway, that kind of sums up the last 2 years very briefly!