Uncle Todd

My husband had a brother that passed away before my husband was born, Todd. Todd was 3. We've never seen his grave. Yesterday was Uncle Todd's birthday so we took the kids to his gravesite in Utah. It was pretty special. We truly have a guardian angel watching over our family.

We made it!!

We've made it to Utah!! Many of you have asked how we are doing and what is going on in our world. Thank you for your love. We are doing wonderfully comfortable. We love our new home, neighborhood, school and town. Mostly we just recognize how richly blessed we are. We know Heavenly Father loves us.

Our first week here has been great fun, complete with a spectacular firework display our neighbors put on, I'm sure just to welcome us. Absolutely mind blowing that it was put on by our neighbors. Forty five minutes of spectacular fireworks, huge huge fireworks. I just still can't believe it. The kids loved it!! We live close to our school and church and the loveliest snow cone shack. We will definitely keep them in business!!!

I will write more when we get a computer set up. Right now I'm using my phone which is not ideal for long posts. But know that we are doing great! We welcome visits and phone calls. :) I'm attaching a picture of Jackson in our new backyard. I feel that it expresses the conquering sport we feel as we successfully tackled the job of moving!! For those of you that have moved, you understand.

Again thanks for your love. More stories to come. The Corbridge adventure continues!!!

In the wee small hours

Have you heard that song, "in the wee small hours of the morning?" Well, that's what going on in my world tonight.

"In the wee small hours of the morning.
While the whole wide world is fast asleep.
You lie awake and think about the boy,
And never ever think of counting sheep."

Only in my case, I'm not thinking about "my boy" cause he's snoring so cutely next to me (love you babe). My mind is thinking about our family move that is coming up in 13 days. Yes, we are moving to Utah. (Gasp!!!) sorry if you found out by my blog. I'm actually quite excited just because I know it's right. I won't get too into that though because its special to our family. Anyway, we are grateful to have heaven guiding us even though it may be hard, and even scary.

I'm pretty comfortable right now. I know the city. I know the people. I know where to get a great taco and the quickest routes to the hospital. I know who to call to borrow a cup of sugar or to stitch up a deep cut. I know what there is to do in this town and where to try to avoid at all costs. Heck, I can even predict (with a high level of accuracy) which high school football team in the city will win the "big game" this fall. I can find my way up a mountain, to a lake and my family even has adopted a farm which we loving visit. Yet...we are leaving all that behind and going into a place we don't know. Not only that, my parents dont know. So i cant call up my mom and say, "who do you recommend as a......". I have to figure that out on my own. But, i'm okay with it because this new opportunity just feels good deep down. Ya know that feeling? It feels fresh and exciting and like a jump our family can take together where we can focus on what really matters most. Each other.

So although there are tears in our eyes and heavy hearts in our chests, there's a smile on our face and a strength in our spirits.

Wyoming will always be home. I know I'll miss it. But I know I'll love Utah too.

By the way, visitors are welcome :). It's only Utah. Not the Philippines people. You can't get too far away from us.

All our love....

Happy 4th

I'm so grateful to be an American. Happy birthday America.