Cute grads

My cute sister graduated a couple of weeks ago. What a great student she is...we are proud of her! She has always been such a sweet girl. I was a teenager when she was born, and being around her made me want to be a mom! She was so cute and fun. I missed her so much whenever I went away, especially when I went to college and on my mission. It has been fun to live close to her again and be able to hang out. We were able to meet her right after her graduation, after hiking my kids up a hill to get to where the grads were. Halfway up the hill, I realized Maia had brought her babies. Of course, I ended up being the carrier of the babies. When I met Miri, she took them for me. It was quite the sight-- she looked so diginified in her graduation garb, and had a baby on each arm. It was making us laugh. We were still laughing when my mom took our picture (I relieved her of her baby watching duties for a moment).



They also had a graduation party for the kindergartners. The bus used to pick her up right outside our house, and my neighbor was kind enough to take a picture of her on the second to last day of school, right in the middle of our move. We will miss our awesome neighbors.

In the Nick of Time!

We went to get our last box and found this posted on the door of our rental:



The auction date is in a week!

We never heard a word from the bank, a realtor, or an attorney about the house while we were living in it. My neighbor said her brother-in-law had been watching its price on the MLS! (while we were living in it!) We had no idea it was listed. It must have been listed in some form for quite a while for it to be in the "to-be-auctioned" stage. We're just glad we didn't have to try to find another place to rent before we moved.

[I took out the picture of our house, just for safety's sake. Now you'll just have to come and see it in person!]

Its a little bit of an odd shaped lot, but at least we have some space for animals and kids.

As far as gardens go, all we had space for in our old house was a little wimpy strawberry patch. I hope we won't regret planting this much! (a lot of beets! my father-in-law planted them, thinking Miguel likes them, and none of us do)



We did this house so we could have some animals and plenty of space for the kids to play. We have been absolutely exhausted after going back and forth working on it and moving for a month, while getting kids to school and feeding lambs, but it feels so great to finally be in our own place!