Time to recap the last month...

We now live in Rexburg! Brock bought a house here really close to campus, so we moved into help him take care of it. Its a super cute house- built in 1915. It still has a lot of the original windows and wood- I'll get pictures up soon! Today was our second week in the new ward, and I've already found a fellow Twilighter! Speaking of which...

I went to the midnight showing of Twilight on Thursday! Wow! I loved it, absolutely. I thought they did a fantastic job being true to the book, and the actors really got the essence of Edward and Bella. I cant wait to go see it again!    My sister in law Natalie went with me and we had a blast. It was no neat to have some girl time away from the kids, and do something totally out of the ordinary. One funny moment that happened- of course the theatre was packed with teenagers, so I was commenting to Natalie about one particular loud one right in front of us.  It was a boy, so I was thinking that he was just there to impress the girls. Well, it turns out that it was Natalie's cousin!! I felt kind of humbled for judging him so quickly, although she said she does remember him being fairly obnoxious, so not much has changed. hehe. 

Emily all of a sudden decided she liked formula better than what I could give her. One day she just wouldn't nurse! So after a couple scary days of her not drinking much, I decided to try formula, and she took to it right away and hasn't looked back. Its kind of nice, I feel free!

Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone!

My tribute to Jeffrey

Now that Jeffrey is 2, and has been for 3 months, I think it is time to let you all know my favorite things about him!

1. He can do things like this:

We were at my sister-in-law's house the other day, and Jeff wanted to go play on the back porch. So he went out and closed the door, and it was quiet for about 20 minutes. I wondered, what could he be doing to occupy himself for that long! When I checked on him, this was what I found.

2. He is the best big brother! Jeffrey loves Emily so much and takes such good care of her. Last week while I was holding her, she dropped a toy she was playing with. Jeffrey jumped off his chari where he was eating and crossed the room to give her the toy back. He said "here baby!" and handed it to her. What a sweetie!

3. He is such a goofball! He loves to make funny faces and silly voices. He makes me laugh every single day. This video shows just a little of his silliness- its about a minute long

I wanted to take you on a little journey through Jeffrey's life thus far:

Brand spankin new!

4 months -1st Halloween (he's a farmer, can't you tell?)

8 Months and getting into trouble already!

1st birthday

17 months

2 years- and he shows it!

1st Haircut Sep. 5th

Before:

After!

We love you Jeffrey! You're the best little buddy a mom could ask for :)

I'm still alive!

Yes, its been a while. -but here I am. And I have no idea why this is being underlined! Oh well. Well, the reason I haven't posted in so long is because the internet explorer on this computer was being weird and I couldn't post pictures, so now I'm using safari and the pictures are working! We also just set up our own computer  and downloaded all our new pictures onto that one, but its not connected to the internet yet. So, here are some pictures- a couple months old, but cute nonetheless!





Sorry about this last one, I cant figure out how to flip it! Its facing the right way on my computer...Oh well! Now, onto us! The kiddos are growing like weeds. Emily is now 8 1/2 months old. I cant believe how fast its gone- I felt like it took forever for Jeffrey to get to 8 months! She is juuust on the verge of crawling. She just barely mastered sitting up on her own about 2 weeks ago, now she rocks on her hands and knees, and can push herself forward just a little. She has 2 little toofers and is very good about not biting me, which I greatly appreciate. She loves eating bananas, being held upside down, and bouncing on the trampoline!

Jeffrey is getting so big now too- he's talking tons more, but still no sentences. He got his first haircut last week! Finally! It was getting really bad- and we decided to do it before my mom came to visit. He looks so handsome- I cant wait to show the pictures! Jeffrey loves to play outside and will entertain himself for long periods of time just pushing his dump truck around in the grass. On the other hand, he loves TV- and would watch that for hours if he could! 

I guess I watch more tv than I should, now that we have cable. My new favorite shows (kind of guilty pleasures...) are Project Runway and What Not to Wear. Just FYI, if anyone wants to nominiate me for WNTW, I will gladly give up my wardrobe to get a new wardrobe in New York! I love seeing all the creative clothes people come up with on project runway, although a lot of it is just plain weird! 

Tyson started school at BYUI last week, and is doing pretty well now! The first week was kind of whirlwind, but he's getting the swing of things now, and really likes the campus. I'm really glad he has a good atmosphere to be in, and he comes home a lot happier. I think being at a church school makes a huge difference! We'll have to take a picture of our new license plates- when we got our car registered here, we picked out BYU-Idaho plates. I think they look awesome! 

I think thats enough to get all you readers up to date on us. I'll be sure to post more frequently so I can show off my cute kids! Hehe

Past, Present and Future

20 Years ago:
1. I was 2 years old, living in the Everett house. I was my mom's best little buddy!

10 Years ago:
1. I was 12 years old, just starting Young Womens.
2.I went to my first girl's camp and put my hair in braids.
3.I was an awkward pre-teen starting middle school- I loved Hanson, Redwall books, sleepovers and of course, boys!

5 Years ago:
1. 17 years old, a senior at Mesa High School- I was involved in cross country, track, choir, the musical Once Upon a Mattress and AP classes.
2.Given the Most Valuable Runner award on my cross country team (along with my best friend Angie)
3. Still Boy crazy! My friend Tiffany frequently asked me "Kim, who's your COW?" (Crush Of the Week). Many of these crushes were the cute sophomores in my choir class :)

3 Years ago:
1. 19 years old- My world revolved around Tyson! We met on Apr 4th, I broke up with my boyfriend on Apr. 8th, we went on our first (official) date Apr. 16th, kissed on Apr 23rd, he proposed on Apr. 26th, I said yes on May 1st, we were married Aug. 26th!
2. It's a miracle I passed any of my classes at MCC
2. I went back east on a YSA Joseph Smith History tour- my best friend Angie was my roomie and she met her future husband, Duane, there.
3. I worked at Jamba Juice and had a blast there!
4. I got pregnant with Jeffrey

1 Year ago:
1. Jeffrey was 1 year old
2. We were still new in the Keating ward and I was getting to know people
3. I discovered Twilight! And haven't looked back since- I'm hooked! (P.S. only 16 more days till Breaking Dawn comes out!)

Yesterday I:
1. Helped my mother in law watch my little niece and nephew
2. Went to dinner at Chili's
3. Ate super delicious oatmeal cookies.
4. Got about 4 hours of sleep.

Today I:
1. Actually got to take a shower!
2. Made my bed
3. Will hopefully go grocery shopping
4. Gave Emily big squeezes!

Tomorrow I Will:
1. Continue my daily ritual of cleaning my room and the kitchen
2. Give Jeffrey and Emily lots of loves
3. Jump on the trampoline with Jeffrey
4. maybe even get to watch a movie with Tyson!

In the next year:
1. I will not get pregnant again! (please please please!)
2. I might take some classes at BYUI
3. Live rent- free for as long as possible
4. Quell my Twilight obssesion

Jeffrey's birthday

Jeffrey is a big bad 2 year old now! His birthday was on June 20th, and he had so much fun. We got him 2 big Tonka trucks with he absolutely loves, and I made him the Higham favorite birthday cake. I dont think he got any though...oops! We took lots of video and pictures- which I will post as soon as I figure out how- for some reason this computer isn't letting me!
Something fun was that Tyson's mom said that I made that cake better than she does- and she's been making it for years! Alright!

An update!

Finally! Its been a long time coming- but without any further ado...

First of all, I just wanted to thank everyone who helped us with the move. My mom and sisters came on Monday and Tuesday (of the week we moved) and packed up my kitchen and books and lots of stuff, then my friend Angie came Thursday and Friday and was our main organizer! I couldnt have gotten through those 2 days without her- I was about to go nuts! Then Marcus Seiter came to haul stuff away with his truck Thursday night, then my brother in law Ken came late on Friday night was our push to just get it all done! His truck was a life saver taking away our last remnants of garbage and stuff we couldnt fit into the trailer. It seemed like whenever we needed help it came- so thank you everyone!

And I also wanted to say how much we are going to miss AZ. We have such good friends there- Madison ward friends, Keating ward friends, my MHS friends, my family- we are really going to miss seeing you on a frequent basis- thanks for taking care of us and including us in your circles! Maybe we'll end up in good ol Mesa again one day- we shall see. I'm glad that I've discovered blogs so that we can all keep in touch easier!

Let me tell you, as you all probably know- Moving is no fun! At risk of sounding like a complainer, I will tell you that I have never been so stressed out in my entire life. At first we thought we could only carry a 4'x8' trailer behind our car, therefore lots of our stuff wouldn't be able to go with us. I was sure we would have to ship a lot of our stuff, and I was having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to fit stuff together and decide which stuff to keep with us, what to get rid of and what to ship. But when Tyson got to the U-haul store- there was a 5' by 8' trailer available and he got it! We thought it might be too big for our little car, but in the end it was fine. We got all packed up and headed out at 11:30pm Friday night. Whew!
We drove all Friday night and got into Las Vegas at about 10am. We had to drive really slow as to not overheat the car- and it was doubly miserable because we were blasting the heat with the windows down in over 100 degree weather- even more precautionary steps to not over heat the car. Let me tell you- the drive from Phoenix to Las Vegas is one of the most dreary drives! There are some spots where the scenery is nice- but for the most part it is just yucky desert.

La Vegas was fun- we splurged a little for my birthday and stayed in Paris Las Vegas! That was a really nice hotel! And the lobby/ casino area wasn't very smoky- so I was very grateful for that. We slept for most of the day and then went out that night to find somewhere to eat and walk around the strip. After about 1/2 an hour of searching amidst rumbling tummies, we finally decided on the Mirage buffet. It was super yummy, but not quite worth the 25 dollars a person to eat there. I guess they just assume everyone visiting the strip is loaded...yeah right! Las Vegas was fun to see and I'm glad I can say that I've really been there now, but I dont think we'll be going back there any time soon. It is so fun to see all the different themed hotels, I just wish they didn't have to include all the garbage that goes along with it.

We took off from Las Vegas early on Sunday morning, but only made it to Mesquite, NV because we were still worried about our car overheating and it was super hot outside- so we ended up staying at another hotel on Sunday and left there early Monday morning. We drove all day Monday and finally made it here to IF at about 10:30 that night. Whew!

It was quite the adventure, and Jeffrey and Emily were awesome. I was amazed at how well they did on that long car trip! I'm so happy that we made it here sane, safe and sound :)

Here we are!

Well everyone, we are safely here in Idaho now. After a 3 day long adventure in the car, a stop in
Las Vegas, a crazy time packing and cleaning- we made it! I'll go into more detail later- right noe Emily is sitting on my lap and its hard to type one-handed!