Cody!!!!

We are moved in and getting settled in Cody!!! I was happy for the crapy weather the first week so i could stay inside and just unpack. I never really feel at home until things are on the walls and boxes are unpacked!! I officially have one box of odds and ends left to unpack!!! Yeah!!

We love this house. It just fits us so well! It was a little over two acres and a great barn for horses. Jake is always playing outside in the yard!! The kids like being out there too!! They are always riding bikes and playing in the dirt!!

Its on a little dirt road about 8 miles outside of town!! Yellow stone is only a 45 min. drive from out house. We are just in love with this little house!! We are going to get horses in the near future and are just so happy!!

We love visitors and our house is always open. So if you want to come to Cody and go to the park and ride horses and just have fun come up and visit us!!!


The kitchen

The dining room (and yes I really hate the carpet)

Our back yard. our property goes to that far fence in the back.

The side parking area and barn

The cute little house!

Entry way

My awesome new table that my parents got us as a house warming gift. Thank you so much mom and dad. I absolutely love it!! It fits us so well.

SNOW~!!!

Monday I woke up to snow on my turck!!! I could not believe that there was snow. Of course the snow did not last long but it was still there. What did I get myself into?!?!?!

Update finally!!

Here is the cute little house we are renting!! It is all hard wood floors and I have to say that cleaning up messes is great on hard wood! We are 90% done with the unpacking. I just have a few things left. They are putting in a whole new bathroom upstairs for us. It has been quite the process but I can see progress now. It should be done this week.

We see deer in our yard about every other day. The kids love it. This buck and a doe have been hanging around our neighborhood. The kids really love all the wildlife they see in town.
This is Teton Reservoir by our house. It is a nice little lake that we will be visiting often!!

We took a short trip to Utah this past week for Jakes race. He is so amazing I don't know how he does what he does.

Me and the kids stayed a few extra days for my dads big 50th birthday, which turned out really great mom, and My sister in laws baby shower!! We had a lot of fun back down in Utah. It was a really busy weekend but it turned out fun.

We went to the new Highland Library water fountains to play. We went once with H.arvey and Grey and once with Kellen and KaraLynn. The kids loved it. Tagg did not like it at first but then he started warming up to it. I think this will be a big hit every Utah trip.
H.arvey and kate

Tagg Finally playing in the water.

Now that we are mostly unpacked we can enjoy a little time outside. My poor kids have been couped up while I tried to get my house in order. The past few days have been really warm so we have spent them outside playing in the sprinkler and on the spinning teeter totter Uncle Brandon and Aunt Jenine gave tagg for Christmas. They love it.


They play on this all the time they love it. It goes up and down and can spin at the same time.

We are finally settled

We are finally in our house here in Rawlins Wyoming. My sister came down last week and helped me get the kitchen, family room and the bedrooms all unpacked and decorated!! The downstairs were the toys and craft room are is still a mess, but that will come. It is a cute old house. It fits our needs!! We have like living here.

We saw a buck and a doe in our back yard eating the trees. There are tons of little bunnies everywhere that the kids like to chase. Kate made a little friend named Timbree that she loves playing with. It is nice to be together again. Now all I need to do is find the cord to my camera and I can post some pictures!!

Also on a side note...only in Wyoming can you drive down the road and get a flat tire by running over a 22 bullet. Yes that happened to me last Thursday. I never saw it coming.

Changes!!

There are alot of changes going on in my life right now. I am just about going crazy because I feel like I can't control anything in my life right now. I feel like I am on for the ride and everybody else has say in where my life will go and when I get to go there but me. As most of you know Jake has been working in Wyoming for about 6 months now. We have not lived together for SIX MONTHS. It has really been stressful. Our house had many offers on it but only a few that were even worth looking at. Then we accepted one and had to wait two months only for them to get denied. We started over. Lucky for us three days after being on the market we got another offer that we accepted and a month later we FINALLY closed!!!
Then we found a awesome house in Lander that we loved. After two months dealing with that we got denied the loan because the house had a Cistern instead of a well. (a cistern is a huge tank that holds water for your household use). That has been really frustrating. So now we were back to square one.
Jake and I did alot of calling and looked at a few places that just did not feel right. Then yesterday we found a house in Rawlins that we are really excited about. We get to move this weekend and after living out of a suitcase for a little over a month we get to live together again!! Thanks to my in-laws that let my family invaded their home for the last month.

So after all that has happened I needed to change something in my life, something that I could control that min. Something that nobody else had a say on when I needed to do it or what I could do. So I decided to change my hair. I have NEVER been a brunette before. I was a toe head when I was little and dyed it when it started to change to a dirty yellow. I love it though. Jake has not seen it yet so we will see what he thinks but I love it and mostly because nobody else could be in charge of my hair only me. So for this brief moment I had control!!!

On a side note Jake's awesome brother Creed got his mission call to the Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East Mission. He leaves November 4. We are so excited for him and know that he will do well there and will love it. We love you Creed!

Its done!!!!

We have officially moved!!! We signed the papers yesterday. It is such a big relief to not have that burden anymore. I am so excited to be able to live with Jake again. I do have alot of mixed feelings about moving. One am real excited about the new adventure me and my family will be taking in Wyoming, but on the other had we have many great wonderful family and friends here in Utah. I will really miss living in Lehi. I have made some great friends. But this will give my family an opportunity to grow closer and rely on each other.

We had a moving company come and move us which was a HUGE strain off my shoulders. Then on the day that I was cleaning some wonderful ladies from the ward and my mom came over to help me clean, and Cami took all the kids while we cleaned. Thank you so much for helping me get that done so fast. Cami has also been a huge life savor in this whole moving experience. She has taken my kids so much and has just made sure that I have had everything that I need. Aaron came over to fix a couple of things at the house also. Thanks guys. My mom has also helped with my kids so much this last week, and my dad was nice enough to take a load to the dump and helped me get the roof fixed. Also my in-laws were nice enough to let me and my family come invade their house for a few weeks until out house in Wyoming is ready. They have cooked us dinner and helped me with the dogs. thank you to everybody who has helped me.

Sinks Canyon and Lander

Last weekend we went to Lander to find a place to live. We found a cute house with 2 acres. It is Jakes dream to own horses one day and he can now. We like it there. While we were there we visited sinks canyon. It is so beautiful up there. The river sinks down into the ground and about a half a mile down the road it comes back up and continues down the mountain. The kids were pretty good. It was a quick trip up and back and a lot of time in the car looking at houses. I think the kids were ready to come home. Our house here in Utah is still in the process of getting sold. We were going to close on the 1st of April but then they needed an extension. It still looks like we can close on it but it will take a little longer than we thought.

Sinks Canyon in Lander

Jake and Kate hiking where the river sinks into the ground.

The House we are going to live in

The kids liked watching the big windmills on the way home.

Kate in the Car...She was very good in the car

Tagg looks happy but it was a long ride home for him.

A weekend alone!!!

This weekend Jake and I decided we would go to all the towns we were thinking of moving to. We drove so much. I did not want to drag the kids around so many places and make them be in the car that much. So Mama and Papa Leetham took the kids for a long weekend. They were such troopers...as it turns out both kids are sick!!! They took them Friday, Saturday, Sunday and I came home today. We went everywhere. Drove for about 19-20 hours this weekend. I am so tired. But it was so much fun for me and Jake to have some time by ourselves!! Jake spoiled me though by taking me to the Hampton inn. (That place is worth every pretty little penny you pay for it, and you do pay alot of those pennies.) It was so nice not to have to share Jakes attention with anybody!!

So as we went around looking at houses and towns. We decided to live in Lander. It is a really cute little town. It has all your basic shops around town grocery store, lumber, car parts but you do have to travel 15 min to a walmart. (That will save me money). We liked it up there and thought it was really beautiful. We will now focus all our attention on trying to find a house there. Hopefully this one sells soon and we can get settled in our new one. I really hate knowing that I have to move but not knowing when!!!!

Wyoming

So I have a question for everybody......There are three towns in Wyoming we are thinking about moving to Lander, Sheridan, or Casper. I was just wondering if anybody has been to any of theses places and what is good or bad about them? Let me know what you think about any or all of these places.

LANDER

CASPER

SHERIDAN