College!!

Hard to believe Becca is starting college.  Another reminder that in few years all of our kids will be off doing their own thing.  She is pursuing Fine Arts for graphic design.

Birds

We have a lot of hummingbirds flying around.  One day I went onto the back patio and one was flying a foot away from my face.  At that moment, I was glad I wasn't afraid of birds because it flew there for a few seconds before finally flying off.

They don't seem to be afraid of coming close to you when you are sitting outside either.

Love this picture of a roadrunner on our back wall.

A scrub jay.  Not the best picture but I do like the blue and the gray.  I imagine this to be the color of the western bluejay.  I hope I see one next year.

First Day of School

The lighting wasn't so good when they left for school this morning.  Jessica was especially anxious to get to the bus stop and didn't want to take time for pictures.  It didn't help that she took a little longer than expected to be ready for the pictures either.

When they came home, a littler later than anticipated, Becca, Bella and I were sitting outside waiting for them to come home.  Bella was sooo happy to see them come up the driveway.

They had a good first day and were surprised by how many Mormons are at this school.

Unloading

This move went very fast.  We arrived in Albuquerque on Sunday, July 24th.  We looked at a house on Monday.  Tuesday we signed the lease and Thursday the truck was unloaded.  We've never had it go so fast.  It helped that the driver didn't store our household goods somewhere.  

Kind of funny that we have moved many times and this move I decided to buy a dolly.  Rad is working and the girls and I are working on unpacking.  A lot of things ended up in the garage that should have been in the house or they are in wrong rooms in the house.  We are weak. haha  It has been nice that the girls are able to load the dolly and move boxes around to unpack their rooms.

On a happy note, I've lowered the weight of our household goods.  The last time we left NM our weight was 20,100 lbs.  We left FL with 21, 740 lbs.  We left NY with 20,060 lbs.  We did get rid of a lot of things in NY but we also added furniture in our family room, a dresser, and a chest of drawers.  I'm very pleased.

We will be registering the girls for school in two days.  It starts on the 11th of August.  They have shortened summer by a month but I don't think that is bad thing as they will be able to meet others their age and start making friends.