Getting ready to move

Here's Eliza and Isaiah on their last day of nursery in our old ward.  This is Lorrie Soelberg, one of their teachers.  Christie Hammer wasn't there that day.  My kids loved both of them, and so did I!  They did wonderful things with the kids and somehow kept them happy while also getting them pretty well trained for a transition into Primary, which happens in January for Isaiah.  Also key to their happiness and success in nursery was their music teacher Sister Turner.  She used to be the Primary President, so I worked with her for a number of years there.  She's pretty much the perfect person to do music with the little ones!  She had all kinds of props and pictures and things.  I knew she was wonderful when my kids started singing songs that I had never sung to them before.  Isaiah will always remember her as the one who taught him that Jesus wears a blue coat...Zay loves blue and he kept telling me that Sister Turner says Jesus wears blue.  After some investigation Joan and I figured out that one of the songs they sing has a picture cue that shows Christ with a blue robe over his shoulder.

 While we were busy packing, the kids were busy making Truck Soup.  They stir it all up and then have Jerel and I taste it "too salty" or "not enough hot wheels" or "too much monster truck" and they'd run off to make a new mixture.  Of course it had to be refrigerated...

I just want to say one more time:  I hate packing.

 Here are the moving trucks arriving.  The second one was pretty much empty, but since they had charged us for it I think they felt obligated to drive it over to the new house.  It was so much better than a ward move!  I just sat down by the garage and told them where things went (the boxes were all labeled, but furniture and other things weren't).

First meal in the new home.