We finally made the move and headed off to start our new lives in Arizona! I have a lot of pictures to put on so i will just tell our story in between all the pictures!
(Bailee at her 1 year appt.)
When i came to visit my sister in April i had found our apartment and everything looked sooo great. WE were so excited to move here!!!! We got here on a Friday and stayed with my sister that night. WE woke up Saturday morning and were sooo excited to go see our new place. We drove to Mesa and found our new place. It was terrible. It looked like a very unsafe and dumpy place to live. But we decided we were going to buck up and just live there for the year were had signed the contract. Little did we know, Chances work was 25 minutes away from where we were supposed to live. That really tipped us over the hedge and we just knew we had to find a new place to live.
Thankfully i have such a great friend that lives in Gilbert and she let us stay with her for a few days while we looked for a new place to live. WE looked at so many places at least 20. All of them were either way too expensive or really trashy. I was a stressed mess all weekend. We finally found a great place in Chandler. Its still a little out of our budget but it was the best we could find! WE live 5 minutes from the most amazing mall and shopping center ever! Oh its so great also we have a nordstrom rack 2 minutes away!!We are finally settled in and feel great about the choice we made to move here:)
While we were staying at my friend Clarissas house Blake and Elsie got to eat some yummy smores!! It was fun staying with her for a couple days. I love her and her family so much we are lucky that they live 10-15 minutes away
The best part of moving here is living closer to my sister and her cute family!!! We live 45 minutes away which i have realized is really far but it has been so fun! I have not lived next to my sister for 8 years! Now that we have kids and a family it is the best thing in the whole world to live next to each other! We get to see each other a couple times a week and have sunday dinners!
We went to her house for a back to school party at the Airforce base they live at. I love that we get to share these things with each other:)
The kids got to go in a fire truck, ambulance and got to meet a K9 dog! Blake was hesitant at first which is really weird because he is obsessed with this kind of stuff, but soon enough he warmed up and had fun!
These two boys have seriously become best friends! They have always had a really rocky friendship. But all it took was a little maturing and growing up for both of them and now they love each other! Today was the very first fight they had since we have lived here. They play so great and get a lot of the boy energy out when they are together!!
Oh these two!!!!
I was soooooooo excited for Mama/grandma Jenny came into town. She stayed for almost a week. It was the best thing ever. She got to know my kids really well and play with them like crazy! My kids love love love her. She is so great with them. She played lots of super heros with Blake and sat and played with sweet Bailee. I was also excited because i finally got to spend one on one time with her and really get back to the friendship we used to have. She is so kind and loving. I love that about her. Not only did she spoil us rotten but she gave me so much great advice and help with how to get situated and about life in general. I will treasure the last week i got to spend with her it was amazing!
Story time here at Barnes and Noble is sooo fun! Characters come and the kids get to meet them. Blake and sweet Elsie with Arthur!!
With Jenny we did LOTS of shopping, eating, playing, swimming, and watching some good old Duck Dynasty!
Jenny was such a treat!!
Blake was cold and not in the best mood at a restaurant we were at so Jenny wrapped him up and cuddled him:)
Jenny took all of us to an amazing steak dinner at Kegs steakhouse. Oh it was so delicious! Best steak i have ever had, hands down!
Jenny bought me all the stuff i need to do my own gel nails! OH how i love this! So we took some girl time and did our nails!
Lots of fun girlie time:)
All in all i am really loving Arizona right now. I have a great best friend here, amazing family and a great mall, What else does a girl need??? We really miss the family we have in Utah and wish they would all just move here with us haha!
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