I am actually cheating and adding these pictures at a way later date (Feb. 4, 2012 to be exact) but I took these pictures a long time ago and meant to post them and forgot! So here they are! Our New House! We officially closed on it August 26th, 2011 and moved in a couple of days later. We love it!
I am pretty behind on posting pictures but tonight I finally sat down and cleared out my whole camera. Here are the boys on their first day of school. Gabe started kindergarten this year and we are so excited that the school he goes to is right across the street from our new house! He goes every day from 11:40 - 2:25. Then Caleb started at a preschool (the same one Gabe went to ) and he goes to the three-year-old class Tuesday and Thursday from 12:00 to 2:00. So far they are loving school! Caleb's class even took a trip to the campus planetarium last week after studying about planets this month. Gabe is busy learning his letters and numbers some more. The last picture is of Josh by his police car. I just thought that was funny. Sorry I don't have one of me in front of Northgate!
Oh my goodness, it has been a while! I finally have a moment to write a quick blog. Since my last post, we have been to Wisconsin for a visit, quit the full-time apartment manager job (I am now a part-time assistant manager) and bought a house of our own in Rexburg! Gabe has also started Kindergarten and Caleb has started 2-day-a-week preschool. Lots of changes in the Rhodes family! Josh is still a policeman, but everyone else in our family is making some big daily schedule changes. The biggest and most benefical one though, is that I feel like I will finally have more time to spend with my kids. As a manager, ever though I worked out of the home, I felt like I NEVER LEFT WORK! It was getting to be pretty overwhelming. Now I feel so happy to be able to do my four hours, then get in my car and drive home and spend the afternoon and evening with my kids, without any interuptions over AC's not working, or the volume on the movie theater not working, or a room mate complaint over dirty dishes! It has been SO NICE and it's only been a week since we moved out! We also feel so lucky to have found a brand new house that we love, just across the street from Gabe's school, that we bought from the owners/builders of our apartment complex for a really good price. Josh just thinks the one thing missing is a new dog...
that is one change that I am not sure I am ready for yet.
Here's some pictures from our trip to Wisconsin! We drove out there on August 10th and spent about a week then drove back, just in time to move out of Northgate into our new house!
This Summer took forever to get here (it was hailing on Memorial Day and 48 degrees...) butit finally got to Rexburg sometime in June I think. Here is some of what we've been doing!
This is very overdue but Happy 3rd Birthday, Caleb! We had family over for a party in the clubhouse at Northgate. He was very into Cars 2 stuff this year and almost all his presents had to do with the Cars 2 race set. He had been asking for a Lightning McQueen remote control car since January when he first spotted it in a Fisher Price catalog we got in the mail. He was pretty excited to finally get it!
He is growing up so much. He is still very cute and cuddly but he definitely has a mind of his own. He can be such a tough little guy. He and Gabe wrestle all the time and it's usually a pretty even fight! The other big milestone is that I'd say he's 90 percent potty trained. He still wears a diaper at night (cause I was sick of washing bedding after the first accident) but during the day he does pretty good.Another fun thing - since yesterday was Fourth of July Saturday - we went to Rigby Lake and everyone noticed he has no fear in the water!! He loves swimming! His other loves: Superheroes, The Backyardigans, the color orange, and hot chocolate. Here's some pictures of the big BOY!
