We just went camping this week for two days. It was a lot of fun and the girls did quite well. We brought a tarp and laid it out on the ground for Jacilynn and she would play on that for quite a while before tiring of it. I had a little scare at one point, I was in the tent pumping up our air matress and Rileigh had been helping me. She got tired and left and I assumed she went over to Jake who was working on starting a fire for our dinner. Well about one minute later I got a worried feeling and checked on her, she was nowhere to be found in our campsite, and we were camping right next to a swift stream. About two minutes later I found her at the naboring camp. We had spent the previous night there. I was sooo scared. Stinker little girl. Well everyone survived. The mesquitos were quite ferocious though. We had to spray bug spray on like every 20-30 min, and even still some of the brave ones kept biting anyway. oh well.

Hi everybody. We are still looking for work, school starts June 29th. We did have tornado warnings and one did touch down, but it was further out from us, around Cheyenne I think? We only got a small corner of the storm, it got super windy for about 5 minutes and then it was over for us. Jacilynn has cut her first tooth, it came up on the 7th, and we are trying to potty train Rileigh again, she is doing well so far if I remind her. Here is our new puppy we got just before moving, his name is J.D. for John Deere and our silly Dixie dog. They have grown to like each other, but at first I think the puppy annoyed Dixie. She would growl at him when he wined and if he got too close.

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Rieleigh and I made this mask before we moved and she wanted to show it off.

The girls now

Well we all made it safely to our new home, but we have had trial after trial since we got here. The day Jake got here it was pouring rain and the power was off and the water. He found out a little later that the power was at the house it just had to be turned on from the outside. he also found out that the water was off because aparently there was a leak in the pipes. When I got there the next day the water was still off. Fortunately by divine insparation I'm sure, I had insisted on taking our water storage with us. As of Yesterday we finally have our wter on with hot water. We had a heck of a time getting the propane people to get things hooked up for us so we didn't have hot water or a stove/oven foe a while. We cooked on our camp stove when we had to. So we have basically been camping for $685 a month. We had the water turned on and off multiple times. The maintanance people thought they had everything fixed and then they would find another leak. By the time they finish we are going to have brand new piping everywhere down there I think. We also had a problem with the washing maching, they said they would fix it, but were taking forever about it. Jake finally looked at it himself and discovered the problem. It wouldn't spin and he realized thart the thing that censes when the washer lid is closed had broke, so he stuck a small stick in there and it has been working out fine. The dryer works, but gives off a high pitched squeeky noise. The dishwasher does not work, I think it's because we basically have no water pressure in the house, for that same reason it takes about a half hour or more for the washing machine to fill up. Oh well at least it works. Anyway so we have been having a ball here. On top of all the fun house trouble, I took Rileigh out for a ride on my bike the other day and her foot got caught in the spokes. I thought it was broken at first, but it is just very badly sprained and bruised up. Poor little girl, I felt, feel so bad about it. She is doing better now, but her ankle is still pretty rough looking and she favors it a bit. Jacilynn has been doing fairly well with the move, but I think the water here affects her adversely. It has a high sulfer content, most of us don't drink it because it is super nasty, but i make Jaci'