Whoa May!

Well, here we are, May 26th. Where the HECK has May gone?  Well... okay, I guess I know where it's gone.

Week One:   Luke's FINAL finals week.  While he spent ridiculous amounts of time working on his final projects, he thankfully had a little time to squeeze in and help me load our trailer with our belongings.
[Here we have Luke and Heber working on their project... and Mini-Me who needed a laptop out just like Daddy!]

At the end of that whirl wind week we were finally blessed to celebrate the past 6.5 years of grueling hard work and sacrifices as we honored Luke at his Graduate School Graduation.  He is AMAZING and we are  so very proud of him.  

Friday morning we prepared for the Commencement ceremony, and for our Parent's visit.  They arrived, we ate lunch, and then headed up to the Spectrum. (USU's Stadium) 

It was an.... um... LONG ceremony.  But, that being said, it was a great joy to watch him be hooded and take that final walk across the platform as he received his diploma ..cover.

 Official member of "da hood"

After the ceremony we bid farewell to my dad, as he had obligations on Saturday, then we went out to Texas Roadhouse for dinner.  We were so glad we could have Luke's parent's and my mom stay over night with us. It was so fun.  

Saturday was yard work day.. and it's a good thing because of the constant rain the next few days. It was great to have a chance to have nice weather and get our yard looking great so we can sell our house.

Sunday was Mother's Day.  It was also our last Sunday in our ward before our move.  It was also the first time I ever spoke in Sacrament meeting in our ward.  As soon as I finished my talk I had to help the Primary kids sing for their Mother's.  

By the time church ended all we wanted to do was warm up all our restaurant left-overs and relax.  

glad I got to spend another mother's day with  my mama. (feel kinda bad- due to graduations, plays, etc. we have hoarded the Wombat on Mother's day. Sorry Siblings!)

Luke and my girlies gave me a beautiful necklace with a bead with bees on it to represent utah (Utah State) from Luke and 2 pink beads which the girl's picked out. Thanks family! you are the BEST! 

After a chill-out Sunday it got pretty busy!
Monday:  pack up the rest of the house

Tuesday: Make the house all sparkly and clean.
Wednesday:  Luke started his VERY FIRST JOB in his CAREER! yay Sunstone Engineering! Boo not being able to live in Payson yet.

Since then we've been bunking out at the Frandsen household.  Luke has ended up staying in Spanish Fork with our friends, Blake and Chantel's, house twice a week to save on gas $.  And that stinks. Although we enjoy it here with family, we can't wait to get out of transition and into real life again! 

Easter 2011

So weird. I posted this the other night and it apparently unposted.. hmmm
Well either way, here's our Easter stuff. Stay tuned..... someday when I get more settled into Life in Price I will post about EASTER DAY, GRADUATION etc etc etc
So stay tuned :)

 We had SO much fun camping. Even if it was only for one night.

We headed down Friday evening and got out to the campsite just as it was getting dark. We got to stay in my parent's bran new trailer which was fun--- until the kids woke up LITERALLY at the crack of dawn. Ah well, camping had never meant sleeping well : )

The day was filled with dirt, more dirt, food, more food, and lots and lots of fun with our family and friends.

 They loved their rides!

And their cousin time

 Easter Egg Coloring

 .  That crazy Easter Bunny always seems to know when the children are away from camp. Weird.
 Uncle Jason had taken them on a walk... but when word of the E.B. reached them they were all eager to get home quicker. It was funny seeing all those kids rolling up in the Rhino together

The Goods

 Adelia had momentary interest in the kaleidoscope. Then all attention was directed to CHOCOLATE. And chocolate only :)

Time for the EGG HUNT: I bet there were well over 200 eggs hiding in the rocks and trees surrounding our camp. 

Perfect place for hiding eggs? I think so!

 The Easter Bunny left a picture of Christ in an egg. Even he wanted her to remember what the REAL purpose of Easter is.

Give Me a "PRE!" Give me an "E!".. Give me a "STER!" What do ya get??

PREEASTER! (yeah, i am a dork. and I know it!)  But what else do you call a post about the stuff you did to get ready for Easter?

Easter is one of my favoritist holidays! Actually, there aren't many holidays I have met that I don't like... but Easter is a definite LIST TOPPER!
First and foremost, I love honoring our Savior, Jesus Christ, and His miraculous life, death, and resurrection.  I love talking about it with my children. I loved talking about it with my primary kids. I love spending time with family (usually out in nature, preferably camping etc.) and I love coming home and attending church on Sunday. I like the worldy stuff too-- I think egg coloring is so fun! and don't forget the egg hunts! Loved them as a kid... love them even more as a mom! And really, come'on doesn't love bunnies and chickies?

This year we had to steal daddy away from all the homework he SHOULD have been doing to color some eggs. It came at the end of a very busy day... him with school and me with PACKING (yep, starting to pack up the house. Yikes!)  This is a picture of Adelia "packing" while Tianna played The Easter Bunny by hiding eggs amongst my messes while I packed boxes.

 But late Wednesday night, we snuck in EGG COLORING 2011

Did I mention I was packing? So ignore Scary Mary :D

 I had my last card group with my awesome friends from Logan. Chandra and Angie (and Shannon who couldn't make it) I will miss you so much! thanks for letting me "in the group!"

After card group on Thursday I rushed home to make our other Easter Eggs.  I mad them last year and thought they were really fun and I think they are so cute... come to find out, some of the Frandsen Men think they are ugly. But they insisted that if they closed their eyes, they tasted really good. Well guess what.. TOO BAD. I'll keep them for myself, thank you very much.

 Some friends brought me more boxes. Turns out, they make a pretty good "house" too!

Friday I had to get us ready for camping! yay! Adelia was wearing her cute jacket and then eventually put on the hat... which would have been enough to make it picture worthy, but then 

 CHECK OUT DEM HEELS! Yowza!

 And... I always feel weird posting pictures of myself.. but I've only had pictures taken of  me lately when I look pretty scary. So just for my future benefit, i want to remember that once in a blue moon I did take some time to get ready! :D   Just in time to go camping-- which will be the next post!

And the Verdict Is............

SUNSTONE ENGINEERING IN PAYSON! 

http://sunstoneengineering.com/site/

Woooooooooooooooooo! We are so excited. I can't even begin to tell you how relieving it is to have a decision. There's no going back now. The acceptance letter and the rejection letters have been sent! His 2 weeks notice was given to Juniper Systems...
Now we just need to have the details work themselves out!

He graduates Friday, May 6th.  If anyone is interested, the ceremony is at 1:30.  We don't have set plans yet on the "party" like we did last year... i guess we've been a tad distracted or something. But we do know ANYONE who wants to come is welcome, but really, don't feel obligated. We can have a pizza party afterwards (or something) and if you want to stay over, we'll figure that out too!

But, you might have to over-look some boxes because I guess we need to pack now.  We haven't sold our house yet, but Luke starts working somewhere between the 9th and the 16th.  [side note] see, one of the factors that lead us to choose Sunstone is how personal and caring the atmosphere feels. They originally told him his start date would be the 9th. That would make things crazy with graduation Friday, company staying over till Saturday, I'm speaking in church on Sunday, which is Mother's Day, and then we need to get him down to Payson for Day 1 of the job.... Whew! But tonight, after realizing that he graduates only a few days before, his supervisor called him up and told him he can take a few more days before he starts.We thought that was so considerate! And a couple days to regroup would really will help a TON!

We don't know how long it will take for our house to sell. We pray it's soon! But until we sell it, we cannot buy another one of course. And that itself takes (way too much) time.  So for the time being, we plan to move most of our stuff, store it, and live with my parents in Price. If he has to commute, it's just over an hour. He might end up staying in a camp trailer or something... but for the time being, that is the plan.

So basically, life is about to go FULL SPEED AHEAD!And a lot of stuff is up in the air, but we know WHERE we are going and that, is worth gold!

A is for April

To get the full coverage of what's been going on at the Peacock's home, I wrote a small novel tonight about it in a previous post.
If you don't care to read it, let's just say, life has been crazy!
Our very last semester is going full speed ahead and post-college is starting out with some major stress. He has 2 job offers on the table right now. That's wonderful. and difficult at the same time! One is at a small company in Payson called Sunstone Engineering.  The second is at the Space Dynamic Lab here in Logan.  Both are great opportunities, but for different reasons.

Meanwhile, on April 14th, Luke Defended his thesis. It was A SUCCESS!  He gave a 35 minute presentation on his Equine Distress Monitor project and then they grilled him, kicked him out while they discussed it, and brought him back in to congratulate him.  It was a very happy day!
Interestingly, with all his job interviews and everything, this was the first time he's really been nervous.  But he did a great job and I was glad I could be there to witness it.

Aside from school, jobs, thesis defenses, (how in the world do we have time for anything else?!) We've been trying to squeeze in some time with our funny, silly, cute, little girls. (okay, I have tons of time with them, but Luke isn't quite as lucky)

So rain or shine (and we encountered a whole lot of rain!) We took the girls to the American West Heritage Center for some Baby Animal Days. 

Ducks and cows.  The cow is sucking on Luke's fingers-- he was a bit hungry I'd guess!

Here's a pig, there's a pig, everywhere's a pig jig!

I was surprised at how readily Adelia approached this goat.  She loves animals and certainly doesn't fear them like her older sister!  Tianna squeals in fright even when a baby chick touches her.

Turtles!

Face Painting!

Our little chicky got a baby chickie on her cheekie.  I have never in her life seen Adelia hold more still.  She didn't move a muscle the entire time they were painting her cheek.

Tianna thought the butterfly across her entire face was the best thing ever. I have to admit, they both looked pretty cute!

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-HAH!  I kinda feel like my face is too small for my body. What do you think?

On the train!

It was a wet, but wonderful day! 

And just a few more gems that need to be posted somewhere:
She is yet again becoming Tianna-mini.  Our little dress up queens! 

And probably one my favorite pictures of all time was taken this morning. 

"JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE!"