We're ALIVE!!!

I thought I would do a little post to let you all know we are alive and well in good old Bountiful UT!!! Since we have arrived things have been Hot, crazy and busy!!! Since I now have an IPHONE (can you tell how excited I am, beyond excited!!!!) I have taken a few pics on that! Our camera is in some box in a storage shed so that is the best you get! Here are a few things we have been up to!
-Playing with cousins
-Running the Wasatch Back Ragnar Relay with my 3 sisters!
-Looking for houses
-Soaking in the heat (splash parks, fountains, and swimming pools)
-Bear Lake with the whole dam fam!!!

We haven't stopped for one second and I am basically still living out of boxes in my parents house because who has time to unpack when there is summer fun to be had! We may or may not have found a house but I will keep you posted!
The last couple days it has really hit me that I live in UT, before it felt like I was on vacation. I miss you all in Calgary and wish I could transport you here to play with me everyday. But I will say this feels like home, and we made the right decision. Blakely is in heaven!!! She loves her Papa and Suzy and can't get enough of all the action!!!

 Who needs clothes when its summer!

 Cousin Love!

 Her two favorite things, backpacks and her bottle!

SISTERS!!!

They Came

They Played

They Conquered

Two of my sisters (Whitney and Bekah) came up for a way too short three days to see Canada before I left and to help me pack up. Let's just say without them coming I would probably be freaking out right now, but they were so much help and did 90% of my packing. Even packed up my kitchen and sent Hank and I on a date to the movies (something we haven't done since Blakely was 5 weeks old and could sleep through movies)

The second they left I wanted to bawl my eyes out. Here are a few pics of us partying in Banff!

 So funny, doesn't it look like she is a celebrity..."No Pictures please"

Exact same hair....if mine were down you would see those same ripples in the back!

 Ater all the rain the river was insane...I have never seen it like that!

 Once again the love of backpack. She got mad when at dinner I tried to take her out!

 Sisterly love!

Survival Mode

Remember how I used to blog pretty regularly and then that just went away....well it is due to the fact that since I returned from Utah I am in full blown survival mode. I am just trying to survive my life without having a nervous breakdown. Therefore pictures and blogging have gone out the window. However, tonight I am finding that I have actually showered after class and eaten dinner by 9p.m. so we are on a roll!

This is a bit of what I have been up to lately. Teaching, teaching and more teaching. I bit off a little more than I can chew and have realized that I am invincible. For the last couple weeks I have been teaching two to three classes a day for a total of at least 15 a week. This is proving to be a little too much when in between you have to chase a 18month around. I was at least surviving when Hank was here now I am just trying not to die. Luckily I have wonderful friends here in Calgary that are taking my wild daughter for me and really helping me out. I honestly don't know what I would do without you all. In between classes I am trying to keep myself busy. If I am home alone I get lonely so I am trying to fill my days with activities for Blakely and my nights with mindless reality tv and packing. Can't wait to watch my SYTYCD tonight. My two sisters Bekah and Whitney came up this last weekend for a quick trip and saved me by packing up the majority of my house, despite the fact that my house is in boxes I don't know how I could have done it without them.

The countdown is on and I get more and more sad and yet more and more excited as the days go on (does that even make sense)!

Hank is in Utah and started his new job today...he also went house hunting with my wonderful realtor Aunt Mary. We are thinking of doing a bit of renovation on a house, lets hope I don't regret that later (right Amy?)

Anyhoo, sorry for the rambling...maybe it makes me feel like I am talking to someone other than Blakely!

I will leave you with a few random pics from my phone from the last couple weeks!!! Phone pics because I am too lazy to dig my camera cord out of a packed up box!

 Carter and Miss B

 The kid is obsessed with Backpacks thanks to Dora..."Backpack, Backpack" may be her favorite thing to say, hence the hello kitty backpack and the pic below where she made me put her in the backpack to watch a show while I made dinner!!! ha ha

Look at all those boxes...we are making progress!