Moving in and His “first famous!”

We finally moved in!  Last Saturday, October 30, was our first night in the log house!  We were pretty excited!  Most of the furniture had been moved in so we decided we should too.  Markell and Andre came from Moscow and helped us with the last of the furniture that was a Kay and Neil’s house still (like our bed!).  The kids were so excited and it made for a nice Halloween present.  We went to a ward Halloween party that evening and then back to the house.  I wasn’t a very good mom this year because I didn’t take a single picture of the kids in their costumes.  Kaydra was a “dark bride”.  She looked pretty goth with a black wig borrowed from Grandma Fitz.  Kanyon was a pretty scary skeleton, with mask and hands and shoe coverings to complete the outfit.  Miranda kept saying, “Don’t scare me, ‘K Kanyon?!”  And Miranda was a ladybug.  A very cute one, I might add.  Maybe I’ll have them dress up again just so I can take pictures – probably not though!

So we moved in and spent the first night without any major problems.  We did discover that our showers had been plumbed backward with hot meaning cold and cold actually meaning hot – a call to the contractor on Monday fixed that pretty quick.  We still didn’t have a fridge so we made do with the one on the deck for a few days until the new one showed up on Tuesday.  On Sunday night we discovered that we moved a mouse in our house with the furniture that had been in storage.  Leonard and I heard it in our bedroom that night.  It had discovered Miranda’s Halloween candy bag and had chewed a hole in it and was eating candy to it’s heart content.  The next night we caught it with peanut butter on a mouse trap – that sweet tooth will get you every time!  We had some traps set for a few more nights but haven’t caught any more so we are pretty sure it came over from storage.  Hope so!!

Here are some pictures of the kids the first night we moved into the log house. We didn’t have sheets on their beds yet but they didn’t care!  What a memory this is for all of them:

Kaydra

Kanyon – his bed was made by Leonard’s Grandpa Bunce (Kay’s dad) when Leonard was just a baby.  Kanyon is very happy to take it over!

Miranda – first time in a big girl bed and she did fantastic.  Never came out of her room and slept all night.  Easiest transition of all my kids – course she is older then either of them were too!

One other thing to remember from the past two weeks is that Kanyon came home from school and said,  “MOM!  I had my FIRST FAMOUS!”  It took a little bit to understand that he was in the local newspaper and his teacher had shown him the article that day at school.  We searched through the weekend papers and found Kanyon’s “First Famous.”  Love the smile on that kid!

Their school won an award and the State superintendent was there to present it.  Pretty big stuff for a small town country kid!

We are settling in and adjusting to our new normal.  Miranda has slept a couple of nights without her pacifier (!!!!!) and she is really close to being potty trained (!!!!!) Hopefully both will be finished by Thanksgiving.  We have quite a few more boxes to unpack that will most likely end up in the basement until we get some more shelves built.  The kids seem to be right at home ….. Leonard and I keep looking at each other and saying, “Can you believe this is our house?!”  I kinda feel like we’re just staying at someone else’s house while they are out of town.  We truly feel very blessed.  I will try to post pictures soon of the house now that it’s furnished.  Still lots of work to do but things are turning out great and we are ready for some visitors!!!