My kiddos are missing their dog.  Well I guess it isn't their dog anymore, we found her a good home before we left, but still they are missing "our Ginger".  We took these pictures right before we left so that the animal rescue people could find her a good home and show that she had lived with kids and then didn't end up needing them for that after all. I am so glad we took them though we hadn't taken any with her for a long time.  

This is the view from my new dining room windows.  Green. Beautiful.  Especially after living in a desert.  But today it feels like a big green wall closing me in.  I wish I could see past all of the trees, I miss my view of the Salt Lake Valley...

I'm drowning in a see of paper and cardboard.  After two and a half days of unpacking this is the 2 foot high pile of unpacked boxes in my garage.  (And I can't even tell you how much paper-that I didn't take pictures of-I have stuffed in other boxes around the house from unpacking.)  I'm so tired of unpacking boxes and trying to figure out where to put stuff. I don't want to unpack another box, but I am so tired of seeing all of the boxes that we HAVEN'T unpacked sitting around the house.  I think I might just go crazy from all of this cardboard and paper.  One box at a time, and soon we will find the end of boxes.

Something has to give... I've been going a 100 different directions at 100 miles an hour and I can't keep up any more.  I will get back to this, sometime, just not now.  I have pictures I have taken, that I want to put on here, I just don't have the time.  Maybe during that long, cold Minnesota winter I have been told to look forward too..... :)

So for now, I am out of the saddle....

Happy Father's Day!  I have a terrific Father.  He has taught me so many things.  I love him so much.  This picture is from Father's Day when Abbie was a baby, but it is so my Dad.

 And how can I say enough about the Father of my wonderful kids.  Jake does so much for us and works so hard to take of us.  I love you both...

I LOVE this man.  I am a sucker for a man in uniform, especially MY man.  He works so hard to provide for our family.  He is my best friend.  I don't know what I would do without him.

Today at family day with the guard Jake got to help the kids use the mine detector to find "mines".  He got to tell the kids a little about what he does when he is at drill.  Not that he goes around looking for mines here, but it is part of his job as a whole.  The kids came away with a couple dollars worth of "mines".