YEEE HAW!

The past few months have been a whirlwind of change, but mixed in with all the chaos we've had a lot of fun! Here's a recap of what we've done:

• We went camping for the first time as a family of four! In Texas we found a quiet, secluded camping site nestled next to a tributary off of a small lake. That night we celebrated Bobby's birthday with Little Debbie cakes and campfire-roasted, bacon-wrapped shrimp (delicious!). Henry had a great time squishing bugs for Mommy, catching his first fish with Dad, and throwing rocks and sticks in the water (he had a BLAST!). Jefferson took the brunt of the trip by acquiring several bug bites and a few scratches, but in the end I think even he enjoyed it!


• Bobby was hired as a senior analyst at Cerner in Kansas City.


• We packed up and moved out of our 3 bedroom 3 bath apartment in a matter of 3 days, drove straight up I35 to Kansas City, spent the night, dropped everything in a storage unit, spent the night again, and then flew to Utah.


• Bobby and I visited family in Utah for 2 weeks. After that, Bobby flew back to KC to start work and I stayed in Utah to house sit for my parents for 3 more weeks while they were on vacation.


• Bobby drove back to Utah for Thanksgiving, we celebrated Henry's 2nd birthday the day after, and drove back to Missouri the day after that.


• We waited a little over 2 weeks to close on our house, and we finally took possession of it on Dec. 17th! We had a cleaning service go through the day we closed to sanitize bathrooms, etc. (to make my life easier) and moved everything from storage to the house on the 18th (with the help of good friends Josh, Bill, Lindsey, and Uncle Tim).


• Dec. 23rd the first family from out of town arrived and we hosted Christmas festivities in our new home!


• Dec. 27th Willie, Bethany, and cousin Paul went with Bobby and Henry to Fun Run--a GREAT place to wear out little boys for tired mommies.


• Dec. 28th, 4 years, 4 moves, and 2 kids later, we celebrated our 4th year of marriage :)

Now that Christmas has past and most of the family has gone, our lives are mainly focused on the tasks at hand; for Bobby that means his job at Cerner and fulfilling military requirements, and for me it means getting the rest of the boxes unpacked, putting things away, and wrangling two kids in the process. We love our house and it's location, love our neighborhood, love our ward at church, love that the Kansas City Temple is less than a mile from our front door, and LOVE knowing that we won't have to move again for a very long time (well, ever, if we want it that way). Everything seems to be falling into place, and that feels good. We hope all of you had a very Merry Christmas celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ our Saviour, and hope that the new year will find you happy and focused on the things that matter most. We love you guys.

Henry's first Kansas City snowfall

Soo...

I don't have any pictures to post because our camera is somewhere in storage.... Next week once we've moved I'll do a major blog catch-up and fill you all in on what's been happening in the Zenk world for the past couple of months. See you next week!

We're Here!

We've made back to the old homestead, and are now just waiting for the home part. We will hopefully be in possession of our keys by the end of next week. In the interim, we're staying in an extended stay hotel. I'll tell you, I don't know how the pioneers did it--living in those little one-room houses with 10 children... I have 2, and keeping everyone asleep is less than easy--especially when one isn't sleeping through the night yet. How did they make it happen?? I guess they just got used to the noise of people being awake at bedtime. Anyway, I'm super excited to get into our house so that each boy can be in their own room, our schedules can get back to normal, and so we can settle down, once and for all.