Our Trip to the Phoenix Children's Museum

We are having so much fun in Phoenix. Our library has a program where you can go to different cultural museums, and other places for free!! We are all about FREE, so we got a pass to go to the Phoenix Children's Museum. It was so much fun!!! It wasn't really a museum, just 3 levels of fun things for kids to see and do. Aiden had a very fun time but had missed his nap so was VERY tired and didn't enjoy it as much as he could have. Plus most of the things were designed for kids a bit older than a 1 year old. Although they have an entire section for kids under 3, which was nice for us! This is Aiden on our way in. He was ready for some fun!!!
Every inch of the museum is covered with something fun, bright, and colorful to look at. All of the decorations are made from recycled stuff, which I think is way cool! These are fish made from used laundry detergent bottles. Fun huh!
Aiden sitting in a car all by himself. He thought it was cool to be in it by himself and steer with the steering wheel.
This was my favorite part. They had an area, probably 12 feet by 24 feet ( a huge sized room), that was filled with these bright green pool noodle, styrafoam, things. They were so close together that once you walked in you couldn't see the person walking in front of you. It was a sea of green noodles.
They have a big colorful maze of fabric tubes where the kids can crawl around. Aiden was the smallest kid in there, so mom had to be a kid too and crawl around with him. He thought this was really cool!!



We had such a fun time playing at the Children's Museum! We can't wait to go again for free!!

Our Temporary Condo

Here are pics of the condo where we are staying till we can find a house. It's furnished, which is nice so we don't have to unpack and repack all of our stuff.


















Our favorite part of living here are the 2 swimming pools! We go swimming every day now since I'm not working and dad is gone to work most of the day. Aiden is a fish!! He loves swimming more than anything. He is so brave and goes under the water falls and under water. He kicks and splashes just like he's really swimming.We love it here! The weather's great, the pools are nice. Anyone is invited to come and play!!

Moving!

We did it!! We finally moved. We packed up all of our earthly belongings, and on a rainy and wet April 25, 2009 we loaded everything on a big Budget truck and headed out to Arizona.


















We had so many friends, neighbors, and family come help us get everything out of the house and packed on the truck. A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came and helped! We could not have done it without all of you.
Allen had the truck packed so well that we still had lots of room left in the truck. After everything was packed we had lots of help from family to clean out the house and do last minute fix-ups. We spent the night at my mom and dad's house. It was so nice of them to have us in their home and took really good care of us. The next morning we finished some last minute things at the house and we jumped in the big truck and took off. Michael was amazing and drove our car down with so we could all be together in the truck. It took us 12 hours to get to AZ. I didn't have my camera, so all I had was blurry pictures from my phone.












Aiden was amazing on the long 12 hour trip. I couldn't believe how good he was. We only stopped 2 times. I think he cried once. He just loved being in that truck. I think he liked being right next to dad and mom, and he could see out the big windshield! He was an angel!!
We got to AZ late, and Larry and Diane had us stay the night at their house. It was so kind of them to have us stay!! The next day we unloaded all of our stuff into a storage shed. We were able to find a condo to rent that very day and moved in. It is completely furnished, which is nice so we didn't have to unpack all our stuff. We are only going to be here until we find a house.
I usually dread moving, but I must say that we were so incredibly blessed with tons of help on our move. It wasn't bad at all. Thanks again to everyone! We love and miss all our friends and family in Utah (and Idaho). We look forward to our new adventure here in sunny AZ!