Long story short....

We moved back to Ohio in March because Justin was offered a great job with great pay. How could we turn that down? and it would take us back to the same area in Ohio that we were before. Talk about a dream come true! I'm very happy to be back. Ohio feels like home. We don't live in the same house that we bought last year (sniff sniff) or go to the same ward, but we are within 30 minutes of our other house and about 20 minutes of dear friends. It's a bit of driving anytime we want to spend time with friends but I'll take that over living states away any day.

When we first moved here we stayed with our friends in their basement, while we waited to close on our house. We were there for almost 3 weeks and surprisingly we all got along very well (they have 4 older kids and did great with our kids). We all made it out alive! haha Not too many people that you can live with for that long and be in each others space that much and still get along. Needless to say, by the time we were finally able to move into our home, I think we were all excited. Nothing like your own space, right!? Eternally grateful though that they let us stay with them. Originally we were planning on getting a hotel for that whole time and that would have been the very definition of pure hell. **Glad that everything works out in our best interest.**

Can I just say how NICE it is to not be living in an apartment anymore!?!? I love love love being back in a house again. I love letting my kids run around and JUMP and just be kids without having to constantly get after them to be quiet or stop jumping/running. I think having lived in the apartment, and knowing that we'd be moving into a house, made it way easier to pack up and move again (and the fact that we were moving back to Ohio...and that we were getting more money with this job). I don't know how long we'll even be here in Ohio, since there is already talk about the company moving us out to Utah eventually to work in headquarters, but I'm just going to enjoy the time that we do have. We'll settle down...eventually. 15 moves in 9 years is just insane, but of course I wouldn't trade all those experiences for anything. :)

We don't have a YMCA membership yet. Planning on getting one after we get back from our trip to Utah this summer.

Kyra goes to school for a few hours in the morning. I like that much better than all day kindergarten. That just never settled well with me. They only had 15 min of recess! Growing up, I think we had at least 3 recesses throughout the day until 7th grade. Kids need to play more! Oh..get this. The best part about living here is that the school bus picks Kyra up and drops her off RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR HOUSE!! How stinking incredible is that!?!?! No more waiting in the car at the school for 15/20 minutes to pick her up (and the time that it takes to drive to and from). It is **divine**.

We have a great park in our neighborhood (first time having that experiences since having kids...whoop whoop) and a great park just a few minutes away. I've been trying to do better at having the kids play outside in nature more. It can be too easy to watch too much tv. I don't want that kind of life for them. I just need to work on reading more books with them. At this point they don't really like to read, which makes me sad because I desire for them to grow up having a love of reading. I did and I still do. In fact, I have like 10 books that are on my nightstand and that I wish I could cram into my head in one day. I love reading!!! Wish I read more *before* having kids, but such is life.

I was just called to be second counselor in the Primary Presidency. First time being in the Primary Presidency so we shall see how that goes. I was worried that my kids would have a hard time with me being in there but today wasn't so bad. They have a pretty strict teacher that will keep them in line. ;) I just have to say that the kids in our ward are so reverent!!! During Sacrament it is SO QUIET. Really intimidating at times because are kids are SO NOT QUIET...but we'll get there. Maybe this ward will be what does the trick for us learning how to be more reverent. Wish us luck!