Birthday

Happy Birthday

Aunt Tyne!

We Love you and miss you!

Washington is so far from Texas!

Happy Mother's Day

to our AMAZING

Mothers

and

to our wonderful Grandmothers

and

all the Amazing Women we know.

We Love You!

The Move

This is Daniel and Bensen the Sunday before we moved.

So, on Monday, April 20th we finished packing up all of our belongings and loaded them into my dad's trailer, thanks to the help of friends and family who we love and miss. We stayed in a hotel in Orem that night with my parents and left Tuesday morning for the drive down to Spring, Texas (just North of Houston).

My family room after everything was moved out.

Tyne, Daniel, and Bensen sleeping on the floor in the back.

Daniel driving. It ended up taking us 4 days, bleh.
The kids did really well.
Staucie with a lolly pop.

Bensen taking a nap.

My sweet Parker. He probably had the hardest time.

Texas.

Very flat.

We stayed with Daniel's sister and her husband in Dallas Thursday night. It was fun to see them. And we were grateful for a place to crash. Then Friday morning we slowly got ready to make the last stretch to Spring. Daniel got a phone call from our Realtor telling us that the landlord of the house we were supposed to move into that day told the property manager that morning that he had not been making payments and would probably foreclose. So, we lost the house we were supposed to be living in. We are trying to rent a house here while we wait to sell our condo in Utah. Anyways, so fortunately Daniel's sister, Brittany and her husband, Matt, have welcomed us into their home for the time being.

We feel bad living here and taking over their house. There are 5 of us and Brittany is due with their first baby in 3 weeks. Staucie and Parker are sleeping in their baby's room and I feel terrible that she can't set it all up the way she wants. We also feel bad that are kids are terrorizing their beautiful house before their own kids are even born.

We are so grateful that they are here though to take us in so that our kids have a place to sleep, eat, and play. They love their Aunt Brittany and Uncle Matt.

The kids playing in the rain.

Eating Nachos around the coffee table (A Lees tradition)

Brittany, Matt, Ashley, Daniel, Staucie, and Parker

Bensen really likes their baby swing. He has had a sinus cold and has slept pretty good in the swing.

Eating yogurt.

Bensen sleeping in the Pack n Play in our room.

Staucie and Parker taking over the baby's room. Poor Brittany :(

It has been really hard for me to make this move for many reasons and on top of it, we are homeless, but I have felt right about it accepting the job. Daniel has a great job in Houston and we are excited for a new adventure. But I am quite discouraged that we have no home. We are living out of boxes that are in Brittany and Matt's garage. Our stuff is all over in their house. I feel bad for taking over their home, especially when they are trying to get ready for a baby. I wish I had a place to call home. We keep looking and have been trying to put in applications on houses, but then when our realtor calls on the house that we JUST looked at, she is told that it is no longer available. I just don't understand why it has been so hard. I have become very discouraged. I also wish we didn't have to spend money on rent and could just buy a nice new home. The houses here are a lot less then what we paid for our condo. Bleh.

I am also VERY grateful for my parents. They helped us by driving all of our stuff down and helped pay for things. They helped entertain our kids at gas stations and hotels. I am not only grateful for their help, but I am also grateful that they were with me. Moving away from everyone was sad. I didn't want to leave my family. I haven't had too many breakdowns and I think I might have cried the whole way here if they weren't with us. It felt better that they were here, but I did cry a little when they left me. Maybe because they are not a one day drive away anymore, or because I am homeless, or because I don't know when I will see them again, or all of it. Thanks mom and dad. I love you and I am so blessed to have you in my life.