it’s official, my friends. about two weeks ago, Dave came home with AZ license plates for our vehicles. yesterday i received my AZ drivers’ license AND registered to vote in one fell swoop that took over an hour. ugh. the MVD (Motor Vehicle Department) in Gilbert off Mesa Road is not highly efficient. but [...]
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a mere 4 days after arriving here in arizona, we were out running errands (dave and i and all three kids) and after we finished the boring errands (probably appliance shopping), dave decided to treat the kids to an adventure at a park. it’s not too far from us (6.7 miles) but who knew we’d [...]
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hooray! it’s 9:58 pm as i sit down to type this. it’s BIG BIG BIG news for me. and news that none of you will care to know. but i want it documented. we have been in arizona for almost 4 weeks. FOUR WEEKS. and tonight, we finally ordered our new washer and dryer. FRONT [...]
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davey is 4.5 years old and LOVES being this age. he’s learning to sound out words (for spelling) and he LOVES to sit down and write, draw and color. his imagination is starting to run wild (in a good way) and he LOVES to play “Marvel Super Heros” (which basically means you pretend you’re a [...]
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hi! it’s a beautiful, sunny saturday here in mesa. alex is napping, davey & sam are “resting” and dave is at the store buying dinner for tonight so i get a little more MOMMY TIME. whew! following another difficult and sleepless night (each kid is having sleepless-at-night issues – davey has an ear infection [...]
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in case anyone is wondering, Davey and Sam DEFINITELY remember their friends from washington. on our first full day in arizona (thursday the 26th of february), we went out for breakfast at a little place across the street from dave’s office. i think it’s called Mimi’s Cafe. anyway, the kids were enjoying coloring and drawing [...]
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if you’ll recall, almost all of our worldly possessions were loaded into a moving truck in the middle of a snow storm back on Tuesday, January 17th. i remember the date clearly b/c it was two days before my birthday. one of the worst birthdays ever. ugh. but i digress (as usual). so by Friday, [...]
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Wednesday: January 25 – Alex did NOT sleep well. she ended up in bed with us quite a bit. -Yet another LATER than hoped start to our morning drive despite skipping the hotel’s breakfast and spending an arm and a leg for breakfast at Starbucks (in the drive thru) -just north of Redlands, CA traffic [...]
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Tuesday: January 24 -We enjoyed waffles for breakfast (well, the kids and i did) in the hotel (hooray for “breakfast included!”) -Dave had the hotel manager give our battery a JUMP start so we could get on the road -We STILL left later than planned. ugh. -Drive from OR to CA -In-n-Out for lunch -Davey [...]
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Monday, January 23rd the snow storms were over (though another was forecasted for the 30th) and our moving van was on it’s way to arizona (on saturday they were finally able to use a U-Haul to shuttle tom & jenni’s belongings from their house, down the hill to the still-stuck-in-the-snow moving truck). tom and [...]
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