A quick update.

I want to do just a quick update of our moving status. At this point in exactly 5 weeks, we will be homeless.... We thought we had a job in Portland and it fell through. The disappointment of that one has been ringing through our ears for the past several weeks as our friends and family excitedly ask us where we are going. We have applied for Henderson, Colorado and we are waiting to hear about another town in Oregon. We also found out that a job here in Phoenix has opened up. And as much as we dont want to stay here, because of the place not the people we will take anything right now. The desperation has gotten slightly out of control for me. I struggle with not knowing where were going. I am a planner through and through. I am such a planner that I am pretty much OCD about it. I am trying with all my might to calm down and realize that something will come but God is defiantly teaching me patience. Someone told me the other day that God waits till the last minute. I rolled my eyes but I think God needs to push me to help me realize that I dont need to plan things 3 months in advance. (Told you it was bad) We have started packing and since we both have a lot of this week off we are packing quite a bit this week. Its not something I really want to be doing. I have come to fall in love with the people in this state and although the heat is not my thing this place does have good things going for it.

Well unfortunately thats all for now. Hopefully after a couple phone calls Stefen is making today I will have more news.

The running Diaries!

This post is really for me to help me keep track of my progress. But if you care to read it I have made it as entertaining as possible.

Stefen and I for the past month walk 2 miles a couple times a week. However my big goal in life is to be a runner. However I am not a runner. Have you ever seen the Friends episode where Phoebe and Rachel start running together? If you haven't here it is.

Yep folks that is pretty much how I run. With no class and all over the place. Stefen probably runs that way too. My point to all of this is I am not a runner and I really dont know how to do it the right way. Stefen likes walking with me but he has not motivation to help me run or even run himself. So thats where my new running buddy, Courtney, comes in. She wants to run a 5K in January and needs a motivator. So we started tonight! I did 3.4 miles overall and about half a mile of that was running. Now mind you I did NOT run a half of a mile straight a little here and a little there. But I did it! I ran! I looked like Phoebe I am sure. But I did it! According to the app I used i burned only 325 calories which is equivalent to an avocado. I also did some kicks in the pool tonight. I feel like my whole bottom half is going to fall off. I was having a hard time walking home after I left Courtney. But I did it! Ragnar here I come!
(one day I hope!)

The Fair

As it gets closer and closer to December we get sadder and sadder to close this chapter of our life but we get more excited to see whats next. With that being said we are very sad to leave our friends and we have been trying to do many fun things together. This last week we went to the fair. We had so much fun!

The Verizon football game. Stefen and I completely and utterly failed at making it into the hole.

The running game.. I did the best I think. 

Brielle had so much fun chilling and watching us.

But we did the petting farm just for her. She LOVED it!

She loved hugging the goats.

Then she thought she would head butt them after she saw 2 goats doing it to each other.

Llama! She wasnt so sure about this one.

He or she is such a stud!

There were even a couple wallaby's!

He loved to be petted!

Figure eight competition!

Brielle cuddling with the monkey!

Jayden Boy was one happy dude that night! He loved every minute of the fair!

Corn Maze!

This pass weekend we went to a corn maze with some of our friends. It was a blast and VERY kid friendly. They had this giant balloon tramp thing that was so much fun but it was very hard to get pictures. We had so much fun in the maze and the kids did great. Here are some fun stories.

Brielle ready to go pet the animals

These goats would climb and climb these stairs it was really cool.

You cant tell in this picture but she really did like the goats.

There was one pig and only one pig and it happened to be with the goats.

Jayden, Uncle Button, and Jordan climbing the hay

Peddle cars. Theres a good chance that we will be making these in the future

Erica in the peddle cars. They were so much fun

Brielle hiding

Jayden going for a ride. He walked most of the maze and did great!

Jordan Hey I am tall with the baby!

Jayden and the train!

Stefen is TALL!

All I cared about is the cow!

Jayden LOVED going down the slide with uncle button

Little pig house is tooo small for Uncle button

Aunt Bri with Brielle!

Camping

At the beginning of September we went camping with our friends. We had delicious food and amazing fun! As always there are more pictures on facebook these are just the ones i like or have stories for.

Stefen this is Slide Rock!

Stefen going down! The water was so cold by the time we went down the WHOLE thing we were all numb.

There goes Jen.

Bye Adam!

That was fun lets go again.

There I go. 

Jen Jumping off the cliff!

Erica Jumping!

Jordan being brave.

Uncle button was a trooper. He got cold and was tired and Brielle was cranky too. So he sat on a rock for about an hour holding the sweet baby just watching and chilling.

He got to watch Jaden too. Who in this picture was throwing a HUGE fit! He eventually fell asleep in a weird position  He loved camping though. Everytime he see me or his button he asks when we can go camping again.

After a long day swimming! We were all pooped!

Jaden is happy again!

Poor Brielle was so tired by this point as soon as she got in the car she crashed. she loved taking her pictures though.

Glaring!

See my tongue!

After her nap and not being wet anymore!

Thanks to the Bywaters for this beauty!

Our yearly picture. Do you like this one?

or Option 2?

On our way back from camping we stopped in Sedona. They had these cool music things.

Jen rocking it.

Old man! All these people were taking pictures of me with this dummy. He freaked me out but he was soo cool too. He waved!

We had a ton of fun on our camping trip! These are some of our closest friends here in the AZ we sure will miss them when we move but we hope to go on trips with them again soon!