Well, we are off! We are headed out this morning for a week of camping, memories, sunburn, and mosquito bites! My family, my parents, brother, grandma, and Aunt are taking two campers and heading off into the horizon. We have big plans for the week, Jonah will finally go fishing with the pole he got for his birthday, Molli will get to see a live raccoon(like one in the woods Mom, Emma will get to roast her marshmallows, Sydney gets to sleep in the camper(all night) and Thomas will explore the new sensation of dirt at the campground. As for me, I'm looking forward to trooping to the bathrooms in the middle of the night with children, hearing "Mom, isn't there anything to do???", making sweet memories that we will talk about forever, and of course documenting every moment with pictures to share with you all when we return! See you when we get back!

WHAT WERE YOU DOING 10 YEARS AGO?
10 years ago, wow. So that would have been 1997...I was living with an elderly woman, taking care of her, making her meals, etc. I was also working at McDonald's. Highly exciting. I was preparing to head to Cornerstone in the fall.

FIVE SNACKS YOU ENJOY
Papa Murphy's dessert Cinnamon wheel
Ice cream
Chips and dip
choclate covered pretzels
Muskox morsels

FIVE SONGS YOU KNOW ALL THE LYRICS TO
"There's a Choclate Moose on the loose" Yeah, don't ask!
"Holy is the Lord" Chris Tomlin
"Be with you" Mr. Big
"I will be here" Steven Curtis Chapman
"Potter's Hand" Darlene Zschech

FIVE THINGS YOU WOULD DO IF YOU WERE A MILLIONAIRE
Pay off my parent's mortgage
Buy Noah the computer he needs to communicate
Buy a Sprinter to fit my family
Add on to our new house
Get a carpet cleaner

FIVE BAD HABITS
Rubbing my eyebrows
Not being consistant with discipline
Being lazy about cleaning my house
Not thanking people for gifts, etc.
Spending too much time online :)

FIVE THINGS YOU LIKE TO DO
Be with my family
Read
Kiss my kids good night
play cards with my parents
Eat


FIVE THINGS YOU'D NEVER WEAR AGAIN
A side Ponytail
My bangs straight up
rolled socks
a bikini
A thong

FIVE FAVORITE TOYS
My Camera
my cell phone
movie making software
Dora cash register (hey, I play with kids all day!)
The trampoline

FIVE PEOPLE TO TAG
Amy
Becky
Felecia
Holly K.
Matt k.

Here's my moving day video journal, better late than never! Make sure you read the "catch up" post below!

Thanks be, we 're back. After many tears, despreation, and begging, we have cable internet. It would have been helpful if they had told me that it was available TWO WEEKS AGO!!!!!!!!! *deep breath* but all is well that ends well...

It has been really hot here so we've been swimming a lot. The kids are already brown as can be. Sydney is almost ready to get rid of her tube and swim for real..a few more weeks and she'll become a fish like her siblings. Thomas has made his debut into the pool. We got him a floater things and he bops around in it. He thinks it's fabulous...I'll post pics soon. We are all settled into the new house and have finished most of the major projects. So this week I decided to work on some of the gardens around the house. Right outside the front door is a huge flower bed that was mostly full of Lily of the Valley. I like LOV, but I decided this bed would be beautiful full of other perineals. So I decided to pull out all the LOV. YEAH RIGHT! There were millions of them!!! It took me two hours to just get the leaves out! Then I tried to put a shovel in and turn over the soil. I couldn't even get the pointy end of the shovel into the dirt!!!! It turns out that LOV roots are like cement. Luckily, my girlfriend owns a garden Claw. Even with that, it took 4 hours, 6 blisters and 2 garden refuse bags to get all the roots out! And then, I really could get ALL of them. I have a feeling that I will be fighting with the LOV for a while. In the back I moved some rocks and hostas that my children were trampling and that looks nice. Matt made the comment that I am much more motivated to do things with the yard here than I was at the rental house. I guess it just means more that it's mine. Does that seem silly?? We've moved the trampoline from Mom's house and it's all set up. The kids are thrilled. Papa and GG gave us a great surprise of buying the kids a swingset that will be here next week. OUr yard is starting to look like a theme park, not that I'm complaining!

I'm working on a slide show of pics and video of the move and some recent pics. Stay tuned for those!!!

Hello all....bad news from the Kurtz home. WE CANNOT HAVE INTERNET!!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! We are in some sort of dead zone where they do not cable or DSL....I cannot believe this. I feel so out of touch and find myself missing the outside world. Ugh, so we are looking into dial up whih makes me want to wretch, but I must have some sort of contact. So bear with us....grrrrrr!