March and April 2009

This is so, so sad. The state of my blog. I mean, really?! It's been since April that I posted. Time for a serious update...

March
(Yep, I'm really going back that far!)

In February we got some fabulous news. Most of you already know it, but it bears repeating on the blog. This amazing and incredible sister of mine called to say our lives would be changing. Her hubby had gotten a job here in Pasco, Washington of all places and they were moving in just a few weeks...all the way from Albuquerque, NM!! I thought I was going to die of happiness, the news was THAT good. Not a month before we had finally given up on our dream of moving to family. Tri-cities was going to become our permanent home (for the moment, anyway) and we were trying to hand things back over to the Lord. He had other plans for us than we could understand. I felt like I was being given a gift from Heaven. I know...so cheesy, but really, I couldn't have asked for anything better than getting my sister to live down the street from me. And really, she DOES live just down the street from me. In March they came to live in our little neighborhood. We have Sunday dinners together and park trips and movie nights and swap babysitting and daily phone calls and the best ever baby kisses from Cade that fill up that empty (I'm not having anymore babies) spot in my heart. It is the best. Truly. And we all really like Rick, too. :-) (That's just for you, Ricky!)

So, March was full of visits from Grandma and Grandpa, and helping Rick and Jen move and Natalie turned 5!! My baby is going to be a kindergartner! Oh, what has happened to the time!? We have been pleasantly surprised to find Natalie has a new obsession with Dinosaurs. I'm not sure how it started? She loves to watch documentaries with her Daddy...maybe she saw one and loved it? It's been all about Dinos around here for quite a few months now. She wanted a dinosaur party with a dinosaur cake. She wanted dinosaur toys for her presents, too. We had a small family party (we actually have family here to do that now!!!) on her birthday because she got sick and then had a friend dinosaur party the next week. She was so spoiled. We had dino cake and pin-the-horn on the Stegasaurous games and lots of fun dino presents. Here are some pics to see all the action...


April

April was such a big month! We had so much going on and so much more to be grateful for. April saw our first Spring trip to the park with Rick and Jen. I'm afraid April scared them a little. While Albuquerque was seeing 80 degree weather and the opening of this sister's pool...we were having a LOT of rain showers. It just kept raining and raining and raining. Jen kept asking where was that sun and blue skies we promised. Rick was just a little skeptical. I think we're making up for it now, though. We took the kids out to Charbonneau Park to celebrate a beautiful warm Spring day...even though it was a tad chilly still.


Easter was so fun for us this year. The ward had the cutest Easter egg hunt on the Saturday before Easter and the kids had so much fun. They scattered the field with Easter candy and chips and bottles of pop and the kids just went crazy picking up their loot. Then in the afternoon we colored eggs with Jen, Rick and the kids (more stuff with family!!!) and had a small egg hunt in the backyard. We had Easter dinner with all the fixin's at our house the next day. I love making Easter dinner...ham, potatoes, yummy rolls and pie.


April also found some more good news for this Trimble family. Nate's Dad got a job at Hanford and was able to move he and Nate's Mom here from Arizona. Since all the family is in Washington (mostly on the west side of the state), this was great news for all of us. We were beyond thrilled as we get to have them living just a few minutes away. More family!!! So unexpected, such an incredible blessing for us. We were able to help them find a place to live and move their stuff in just a couple of weeks. Everything just fell together in the way that things do when it's meant to be. The girls think this is the best thing ever, having their grandparents so close by. They love to go over and play with all of Meme and Papa's fun toys and all of the sudden we've become a popular summer destination for all of Nate's sisters' families from the west side. Nate and I have begun to joke that you might want to be careful what you pray your hearts out for...we're not used to all this family time. :-) No, really, it truly is the best!

But best of all for April, was the chance we had to celebrate Kenzie's 8th birthday and her baptism. We were so fortunate to have lots of family travel to be here for this special occasion. My parents came from Utah for the week and three of Nate's sister's families came, as well. It was soooo fun having all this family here (I'm sensing a theme in this blog post, are you?) for Kenzie and she was just thrilled. We packed our little house full of people, Jen's house full of people and Nate's parents' house full of people, too. We were so lucky to get the opportunity to use a friend's indoor pool to host a big birthday party for Kenzie and Jen's little boy, Noah, too. He turned four on the day of Kenzie's baptism, so they shared a pool party together. We had a great lunch and lots of cake and the kids swam to their hearts content, even though it was a breezy, cool day outside. Kenzie got more presents than any 8 year old little girl needs, but she, of course, thought it was "the BEST DAY EVER!!!".


I really stressed about Kenzie's baptism. I never should have, though. It couldn't have been a more perfect event. I was worried that the Stake baptism might not be personal enough or rushed or even too long of a meeting, but none of that was true. The speakers and musical numbers were just right and the baptism itself, was just perfect. I don't think I've ever seen such a sweet, sweet smile on Kenzie's face. She just beamed with joy for hours that evening. All her family was there for her, she had a beautiful dress to wear and she even got to be baptized with her good friends from primary and school. And what a wonderful experience it was to have the chance to watch my incredible husband baptize and confirm our eldest daughter a member of the true Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There aren't words to describe how incredibly proud of her I was. Afterwards, Kenzie got to go out to eat to her favorite restaurant, Red Robin, with her Grandma and Grandpa and then visit with cousins and go to church with everyone the next day. She even got to sit on the stand with the bishop all through sacrament meeting and she was SOOO good!! Nate and I were able to bear our testimonies and share with her our belief in the good choices she was making. April was a good month.



To be continued...