Packing a School Lunch

Jade is starting kindergarten next week. It is all day so I will need to pack a lunch for her. Seeing as I am completely new to having a school-age kid I am asking for help. I would love your advice on school lunch, what to pack, what works, what doesn't, and what you absolutly swear by. I would love any thoughts or advice you can give me.

P.S. I hope the girl's trip was awesome.

ONE MORE WEEK!

I can hardly believe it but its true! Girl's weekend begins one week from tomorrow! Can't wait to party ladies. Sounds like Kami has some super fun stuff planned. I plan on thoroughly soaking up all the girl-talk and laughs that I can hold! To get me by until next year, of course :) Its not too late to come if anyone is still considering it. There's plenty of room for more!

See you gals soon!

Hey Girls :)

I just wanted to say hi and congrats to all those who graduated! Can you believe they are really done... I am loving it! And those of you who still have some time left, hang in there! you can do it!!!

We are all moved & living in Gunnison UT. Doesn't feel real yet, but maybe once Adam starts work and we get a routine going it will feel like home. We had a great time in Cozumel even though I am big and pregnant. Eventually I will get around to posting about it on my blog. Adam is home for almost 3 more weeks and it's been great.

I hope everyone is doing well with their moves, babies etc. Just wanted to say hi!

I would love to know what everyone is up to :)

love, Rachel

Graduation Gifts

Hi girls--
For those of you with husbands finishing this month, what are your ideas for residency graduation gifts? I'm stumped and I need ideas!

Miracles

You all know how we listed our house for sale a few weeks back?  Well, we had been preparing the house for a couple of months and all of the realtors that we interviewed said that it was very difficult to sell a home right now and we were looking at going about 15 to 20,000 in the hole on the house.  We were also told that it was going to be nearly impossible to sell the house FSBO.  Well, we felt good about listing it ourselves and we felt good about the price we listed it for.  We had been praying over the last couple of months that the Lord would be preparing a family to buy our home from us and that we would be able to sell the home without going backwards in the loan and that we would be able to sell it quickly.  We put the house up for sale at 5:00 p.m. on a friday night, got a call saturday morning and they wanted to see the home on sunday.  We told them that we didn't show on sundays but we would be happy to show the house on monday.  On sunday we fasted that we would be able to sell the home.  On monday the family came and walked through the house and said that they would let us know one way or another.  They left the house and walked out to their car.  They rang the doorbell a few seconds later and said that they didn't need to think about it any longer.  They knew that they wanted to buy the house.  They said that they were pre-approved for about $5,000 less then asking price but they were willing to offer more if we needed it.  We negotiated for $2,000 less than asking price (which still covers our full morgage) and they signed the papers and gave us a deposit.  It was so mind boggling smooth that it is impossible to contribute it to any other factor than the Lord.  We are just humbled and dumbfounded at His mercy and hand in our lives.  Not only does He answer prayers, but he always blows me away when He does.  Austin and I dropped to our knees in gratitude which seemed not nearly good enough.  We wanted to scream it from the housetops!  Anyway, I had to share with you all what an amazing experience it was.  Words can't quite express how I feel but I am so thankful for the gospel that teaches us to pray and fast and trust in the Lord and to rely on Him.  Where would I be without Him?

GIRLS WEEKEND 2010!!!!

We finally decided on a date for Girls Weekend. We are going to do it July 30-Aug. 1. We will be doing it here in Oceanside. Jenny has graciously volunteered her house. (Thanks so much Jenny! What would we ever do without Jenny). Anyways, we want to start on Friday morning, so you are all welcome to come Thursday night so we will be ready to go on Friday. I am super excited for this weekend. I think it will be a blast. We will start figuring out what we will be doing soon. If any of you have any request just let me know. This will come fast! Loves

We know where we are going!

Finally! We know where we are headed. We are headed to a little paradise called Mountain Home Idaho! Just kidding about the little paradise part, but at least it is close to home! We just found out. We turned in our wishlist in December with Mt. Home no where near the list but in Feb the Assignments officer emailed with a list of 11 bases that no one signed up for. Of those 11 Mt. Home was the best choice for us. There were enough spots that weren't signed up for it made us pretty worried that we would get sent to one of these bases that we REALLY didn't want. So we called the assignments officer and told him we would be willing to add MT. Home to our list. The Sweet thing is that choosing Mt. Home means that the odds of Austin getting deployed are very small. We may go through our whole payback without Austin ever being deployed. That would be awesome. Anyway, for those that don't know, MT. Home is 45 min east of boise and 5 hours from Provo. It's a very small town but I don't think I am going to mind all that much. It is close to the sand dunes so we are going to get some 4-wheelers and go crazy. We will make it fun!