Very quickly...

I am so sorry!  I have neglected my duties on the blog.  But I am so busy packing and getting ready to move.  I took pictures of Lorelai's birthday, so I will update as soon as we are in the new house!  That will be later this week!  I am excited to move into the house...  sad to leave my awesome ward.  The new job is going great.  Kids are great.  Summer is great.  I wish I had time to tell you more about all of our stuff...

Strawberry Pudding

This is what I made for dessert tonight.  Broulims has strawberries on sale and they are soooo yummy.  This is just delicious!!!

Homemade Strawberry Pudding

June 27th, 2006 

Ingredients:

• 1 cup strawberry puree
• 3-1/2 Tbsp. cornstarch
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/8 tsp. salt
• 1-2/3 cups milk
• 1/3 cup cream
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Warm strawberry puree in microwave (about 1 to 1-1/2 minutes). Set aside. Mix dry ingredients together in saucepan. Gradually add milk and cream, stirring constantly over medium to high heat. Heat until pudding thickens and cook for 1 additional minute. Remove from heat and let cool 5-10 minutes before adding strawberry puree. Add vanilla and mix well. Serve warm or chilled.

More Pics of the House

First you see the unfinished bedroom, then Lorelai's bedroom... her closet door, the next 2 are Hilton's room, the next 2 are of the kids' bathroom.(the ped sink is not great, but there is a ton of great storage in those cabinets) then the master bedroom, and the next is another one of the unfinished bedroom that snuck in there some how.  Master closet, then master bathroom, garage, Hilton's closet, all of the closets have great built ins, garage again, family room, Caroline's room, unfinished bedroom, unfinished bathroom, storage room.

These pics are for my mother-in-law who does not have facebook or a computer. Justin made me put ALL of our pictures of the house on there...

Our new house

I know there are those of you not on Facebook who have not seen pics of the house, so I thought I would put some up now, so you can get an idea of what it looks like.  I don't have one of the outside yet, but I will post one when I get it.

The first is basement family room, then the kitchen, then the living room upstairs and finally the front door.  I have a bunch of other pictures but they are not very interesting.  Once we move in I will take pics of all of our stuff in our house!!!

We closed on the House!!!!!!!!!!

Can I even express the relief and joy that I feel right now?  Even better than Christmas!  The anticipation has been agonizing, but it was all worth it.  We have a home that is ours.  We are renting it back to the sellers for a few weeks, but that works out great for us.  So we plan on moving the first of July.  It has been a long and arduous process, but one that I learned a lot through.  I know more about how a bill becomes a law, how interest rates work, how to buy a home, than I ever thought or needed to know.  This was a good thing.  I tell you that more good things could not have happened.  Not only are we getting the tax refund, but we got an incredible interest rate, everything is working out with our lease...  We have been so incredibly blessed throughout this time.  Even though it has been a roller coaster ride, but in the end, it was all worth it.