I know, I know!

Everyone keeps giving me a hard time that I stink at this blogging thing, but really, did you expect something different? The life of the Browers is a busy one. Adam works all of the time, even when he is not working at the office he is getting phone calls as to how to fix things. I may be biased, but I think that he is doing an amazing job. He makes me proud to be his wife. David is always busy with life, he has great friends and would live outside if I would let him. Lucy is now 2 and is such a girl. She cries when I leave a shoe aisle, she wants to where dresses all of the time and needs bows in her hair before we leave the house. I am busy with my calling as a Beehive advisor. I miss my family but am grateful for the friends that we have made here. We have become owners of 2 cats that are named Fluffy and Fuzzy. We got the cats because I had a mouse run over my foot in my garage. Did I mention that I hate anything scurries? We are trying to get a yard in this spring and are excited because as of last night our builder agreed to fix everything that is wrong with our house. I am still not adjusted to the lack of shopping here, but always look forward to visiting other towns. We love you all and miss being near you.

Easter morning, they aren't very good at playing opossum are they?!











Lucy's 2nd birthday, I am not quite ready to have a 2 year old. I cried all day.

So its been forever!

So quite a bit has happened in the last 8 months, are you surprised? We had a very eventful summer but will jump to the most current activity. Adam started as assistant manager for Pacific Steel and Recycling in Elko. Oak Tree Inn was to be considered his residence for a month, while our house was being finished. We purchased a house that had started construction and we just had to wait for the finished project. As all construction goes though, Adam ended up spending 2 months in the hotel instead of a month. Needless to say we are elated to be with him now. We are living in a little town called Spring Creek, just outside of Elko, NV.
David and Lucy are adjusting to the move, but it is taking longer than mom has patience for. Did I mention that you should never move the week before Daylight Savings to a new time zone? Two hour adjustments are much more difficult than one. David is still as smart as ever and just had his fourth birthday. He is mad that he is 4 because he isn't allowed to get married until he is in is late twenties, and lately that is about all that he can talk about. Hormones came early with that boy. Lucy is a handful. Her name definitely fits her, she is a precocious stinker that is a light in everyone's life.
I have decided that I am going to change up my blog a little bit. I am going to continue updating you all on our family, but I think it is also important to journal the adventures of a city girl moving to a small town in the middle of NOWHERE!
Now we begin. It all started when I walked up my sidewalk for the first time and was greeted by a cricket/spider thing that was gold with a brown butt. It wouldn't have been so bad had it not been the size of a horse, or maybe a silver dollar at least. The response from the gentleman helping us move in was, "Oh, those, they are everywhere, not a big deal."
Then we move on to that night when a 8 pt. buck came walking down our road. Majestic, yes. Normal, absolutely not. We have to be careful when we drive at night because there are deer around every corner.
I never thought that I would have to say that I was going into town, yet I caught myself saying it the day that I got here. I have filled up my tank 1 1/2 times since I got here and I have only been here for a week and a half.
A couple of days ago, Adam and I were trying to go to bed at a reasonable time for once. We were almost asleep when heard something. Adam asked me if it was the kids or if it was a dog. I will never forget my response. I casually said, "No, Adam thats not a dog thats a coyote." Then I realized that I wasn't camping, I was talking about a coyote being in our front yard then coming into our back yard, howling at the moon.
Next post I will tell you about the spiders.
Updates will come shortly.

A couple of pics. . . more to come!

As I told you, my David is all boy. This is one of his super hero outfits that he comes up with every day. Lucy was being as mischevious as she always is and was found in an emptied drawer in the kitchen. David was pretty proud that he was the discoverer.

Well, as you can see there are still no pictures, but I thought I would update everyone on my family. Adam has been moved to Pacific Steel so that he can learn that part of the company. As of right now he likes the recycling part of the business much better, but he is learning a lot and there just might be light at the end of the tunnel. Adam was told that he will be ready for a promotion by the end of June. First he has to go to Burley for 2 months starting the first of May. We are deciding whether or not the whole family should go, or if we should save our money and have him commute every day with the manager. After the Burley months we are looking to move, right now it looks like the two options for moving are Casper, Wyoming or Twin Falls, Idaho. My vote is Twin Falls, since I have friends there and it is still close to family. Casper is 7 hours away from our nearest family so I am not so keen on that option, but will make it work if it ends up that way.
David is our boy through and through. He is all consumed with making forts, becoming a knight, hunting for elk and fishing. He always throws us with his quick whit. Two weeks ago we asked him what he learned in primary and he told us that his lesson was on Jamie and Eve, he knew it was one of his parents names, right?!
Lucy just had a birthday and is growing up to be a beautiful, and especially funny little girl. I forgot how much fun this age was. She is almost totally walking, but her crawl is just to fast to give up. David no longer has a corner on teasing, she will purposefully follow David around when he is making his forts and will sit on his blankets right as he gets ready to use them.
Adam's parents came for a week and just left yesterday. It was fun having them around and I got to take a week off of cooking. When Pam comes to town she cooks Adam's favorites that I haven't learned to make yet.
I am still looking for a job that I can do from home, so that I can save some money for this possible move. I am babysitting a couple of little boys of a couple hours a day, but that isn't quite enough.
I will keep up on this better, I have really started to enjoy working on the computer lately.
We love being able to stay in contact with our family and friends.

So if you can't tell, I truly am awful at taking pictures. I have set a goal for myself to take more pictures and learn to take good ones. I love my kids and am so proud of them I would love to show them off but I stink at taking pictures. If you have any suggestions let me know. I will have some pictures posted in the next little while.

Merry Christmas

We are very excited for Christmas to finally be here. David has been so excited for Grandpa and Leah and his aunt Jennie to come and is getting very good at the advent calendar. We have only had to explain to him a couple of times that it doesn't make the days go by any faster when you put more than one magnet on a day. We hope that everyone has a very Merry Christmas. We will be taking pictures of the holiday events so we will update you soon.