It's official!

We are signing our closing documents tomorrow at 3:00!!! And then next weekend, we will be loading up and heading out to our new home in Roosevelt!!! Yahoo! We are so excited :)

Moving...again...

I know some of you have been wondering about our upcoming move, and what is happening. In April, Craig started work in Roosevelt as a contract pumper. He works up there for 8 days, staying with his brother, and then comes home for 6 days and then returns for another 8 days and so on. It has been a strain on both of us.  It is hard for him to be away from the family and it is hard for me to be a single mom half of the time. You might be saying, Megan, why didn't you just move straight to Roosevelt? Well, our house here in Spanish Fork has had renters in it for too long without any real TLC and it was in pretty bad shape. So, in our "spare-time" we have been fixing it up and getting it ready for renters again. It has been a pretty rough few months for everyone, it seems like there isn't enough hours in the day to get everything done.

A month ago, we found a house in Roosevelt that we were interested in. I drove up and we went to see it, and made an offer that night. The house has been in underwriting for a LONG time, and as of today, we have all the proper paper-work and information we needed to close. This morning, Craig was hired on as a full-time employee of Crescent Point (the company he was previously contracting for) and we can now go ahead with the home purchase. HOPEFULLY, we will be moving before the end of the month, though there is no promise of that yet, just high hopes :)

If anyone knows of anyone looking for a place in Spanish Fork, I have a cute 3 bedroom for rent, available August 1st :)

One year ago...

On Saturday, June 15th, marked 1 year ago that my dear dad left this world for a better one...

I miss him so much. He was a wonderful man.

One of my favorite pictures of Dad :)

Holding Ally at 2 months old 

Thanksgiving 2005.

  

At the Scottish Festival- Summer 2007

Thanksgiving 2007

2008-with Olivia in the hospital the day she was born.

Huntington Reservoir 2009

Christmas 2010

Holding Nathan- June 2012

Father's Day in Manti

Usually I make it a tradition to go to Manti on Mother's Day to visit my mother's grave. This year, I just couldn't do it. So, on Father's Day, I took the kids and we went down to visit. Here are the kids at my mom and dad's graves.

The Manti cemetery holds a lot of special meaning to me. In the early days of the church, my ancestors came across the plains, and settled in Manti. This monument is to Fredrick Walter Cox, my 5th great grandfather, who helped settle Manti and laid one of the cornerstones of the Manti temple.

This stone is my grandfather's. He served in the US Navy during WWII.

The cemetery is full of my ancestors, and I love to go there.

This is the other reason I love to go there. To see the temple. My mother and father were married here in 1977. Craig and I were married here in 2002. Craig's parent serve as temple workers here 2 days a week. It holds special meaning for me. I love this temple.

Summer play

The girls playing in the sand.

Logan in the sand too...

It's a fort!

Yogurt mishap

Nathan is ALWAYS into EVERYTHING! He is one busy little boy.  This is what happens if the table isn't cleared immediately after we eat... Did any of that yogurt make it in his mouth?

Logan the big helper

Recently I have been doing a lot of sewing. I was reupholstering 4 little chairs for a friend this day (you can see one in the background) and Logan wanted to help. So, I gave him a piece of material and my pins, and he "helped" me pin material for a long time.

Here he is helping Uncle David make a berry cheesecake for Father's Day.

This little man LOVES to help :)

Huntington Reservoir

Craig and I had this great idea to take the kids into the mountains, and have a fire and roast marshmallow and cook hotdogs, and catch some fish. A few years back, we had camped here, and had a wonderful time. We were really excited to go back. 

However, as we started up the mountain, it seemed to be getting colder and colder...not really unusual, but a little concerning.  By the time we reached the summit, it was snowing. These pictures don't give you a real feel for how cold it was, but Ally's face does...

That is FRESH snow on the ground. It actually snowed a few times in the hour or so that we were there.

Little trooper, all bundled up.

Ally and Logan anxiously awaiting the fire...which was hard to get started, because all of the wood was wet...

Olivia- totally unaffected by the cold, having the time of her life :)

Down at the lake.

What a hottie :) He makes my heart go pitter-patter!

Ally finally decided that maybe she was going to have a fun time, even if it was cold, and she did.

I have a picture of her doing the same thing, in the same place, 4 years earlier...

This is where she caught her first fish :)

Darling sisters...so small...

Nathan rides the 4 wheeler

Logan taught Nathan how to ride is 4 wheeler, can you see that he is excited?

This is my favorite Nathan face :)

Spanish Fork Reservoir

We took the kids up to the Spanish Fork Reservoir. The last time Craig took the kids up, Logan caught 3 and each of the girls caught 1. This trip wasn't as fruitful, but the kids had fun.

  

Logan didn't catch anything but a whole lot of "sea-weed" aka algae.

Livy was the only one to catch a fish. It was about 5 inches long... we let it go.

What a handsome honey. That hat and that fishing pole is one of the great reasons why I fell in love :)

boys...

Logan says, "Mom, can I have a banana?" I say sure, and this is what I find when I walk into the kitchen.  Cute little monkeys :)

We had corn for dinner... Logan liked it!

My little dare-devil... He climbs onto the dressers too... scary!

Sprinkler fun

The other day, we went over to play at the school across the street. As we were walking through the gate, the sprinklers came on, and the kids immediately asked if they could play in them. I told them, maybe on the way back home. Well, about 2 minutes later, I looked at all their faces and they were beet red and I figured a run through the sprinklers would cool them down nicely. They had a blast.