Quiet Time

Lately Stella is a little hit and miss on her naps. I know I wrote a post months ago about her stopping to take naps but that didn't last long she went back to napping and has been until recently. I know that now that she is 3 she may not technically need them anymore but I still need them ;) so whether she takes a siesta or not we are going to still do quiet time. Today she didn't sleep during her quiet time but instead put on her bathing suit and all of her pairs of summer Jammie's oh yeah and her rash guard too. She takes dress up to a whole new level.

We are alive... and well 👧🏻

Holy Moly it's been a little while since I've blogged and tonight I'm re omitting to get back on the bandwagon. I got out of the habit because during our long trip back east we were all in the hotel room together and Jorge and I would pretend to fall asleep so that Stella would fall asleep (except I'm pretty sure every night we actually did fall asleep while "pretending") anyways we had the best road trip ever, we saw amazing things, had near perfect weather and had fun. We are loving our new life in Rochester. It's gorgeous here!! There are historic homes and neighborhoods everywhere and it makes for a quaint rustic feel. Jorge has been at his internship for almost 3 weeks and he's enjoying it. He has 3 really interesting projects that he's working on. One of particular interest to me is his work with conflict minerals. If you've seen Blood Daimond w/'Leonardo Dicaprio you know a little bit about it. Anyways we are feeling more and more settled here and celebrated Stella's birthday this week which I will have to post more about tomorrow. 

Road trip Day 2

Today. We spent 11 hours in the car. The picture below is at breakfast where it was snowing outside in Wyoming.

Most of the day we spent driving through Nebraska.

Road trip to New York {day#1}

We started our journey to our new home, for the summer, in New York. We left West Jordan, UT after church and arrived in Rawlins, Wyoming around 9:45. We had hoped to make it to Laramie but it started to snow and with all the huge semi trucks blazing by it was kind of a crazy snow storm. If you follow my blog you will get to experience over the next week our trip with us. We hope you enjoy! 

As you leave Utah headed for Wyoming the scenery is incredible. There were beautiful green meadows, lots of trains, and really cool rock formations. 

Jorge and I have been reading tons of church history in preparation for our trip because we have pLanned to stop at a lot of the sites. We arrived at our first church history site by accident, at a rest stop, in Lyman, Wyoming. We are so grateful for our pioneer ancestors who truly sacrificed so much. This is rough country we are going through and it I think about them being out in the cold and heat and rain and snow and it makes me never want to complain again :)

On The Road Again

We are up for our 10th move in 4 1/2 years and I'm hoping not many more after that. I feel a bit transient 😉. Despite not wanting to move I'm excited about the adventures our summer will bring and am looking forward to lots of sight seeing around the East Coast this summer. 

Stella and Jorge made a huge fort w/ all our boxes

It's official the storage facility is rented and our first few things are in it. 

We are family 👨‍👩‍👧

Where did Spring go?

It's been snowing for 2 days, I can't believe it.