Home Sweet Home!

Once Easton finished his last final, we took the elementary kids out of school early and got on the road.  We ended up driving the whole way and getting to our new home around 10:30 pm.  It was a long trip but we made it!  We had to wait 5 more days before all our stuff was delivered so we were still "camping" out when we got to our new place.  We did order a new dining room table/chairs and stools for our island so we at least had some seating and a place to eat.  Dyer was annoyed with me though because I wouldn't let anyone eat at the dining room table until we got glass put on top of it.  Little did we know that it would take about 2 months before our glass was placed.  If you saw our last dining room table you would understand why no one was to touch it until we got the glass put on.  

table and chairs

Since we didn't have much to unpack yet we did some exploring.  We went to Evil Knievel's jump site and walked along the canyon rim trail.

Shoshone Falls

Evil Knievel's jump site

The kids tried climbing up the back side of the steep hill.  Easton and Blair made it but Dyer slipped and got bloody knees and elbows.  I think Blakely almost made it but then gave up and slid down the hill on her butt. 

My mom and Alan came through about a month before we arrived and they dropped off birthday gifts.

Easton

My mom planned on bringing gifts when she came with us to Hawaii but she decided last minute to fly instead of drive so they were a bit too big to fit in her luggage.

Nathan really wanted to find some huckleberries so we went on a car drive to see if we could find some.  We headed up towards Magic Mountain (about an hour away).  Apparently huckleberries are really only found up North.  We didn't find any but we saw a few moose while we were exploring.

We bought a new washer and dryer when we came in February because we heard appliances were on back order and taking a really long time.  We thought we could easily put in a gas dryer since the laundry room backs up to the stove (which is gas) in the kitchen.  We had someone come over and give us a bid and it was ridiculous the amount they wanted to charge us so we decided to cancel the gas dryer.  The washer was delivered about 6 weeks after we ordered it.  We then ordered a new dryer and asked for it to be delivered the Monday after we got there.  They can hold appliances in their warehouse for up to I think 30-60 days.  We aren't sure exactly what happened but we think others ordered the same dryer and every time someone ordered our same dryer they gave ours away...so when it was time to deliver our dryer they mysteriously didn't have ours...They had to order another one but they weren't sure when their new shipment would come in.  They gave us 3 different delivery days.  So annoying!  It took 10 days before they finally got our dryer delivered.  We had to hang dry everything!  Laundry for 8 people is not an easy thing...

This is what sunsets look like at our new place!  This is about 9-9:30pm.