Good-bye to North Carolina...Hello Idaho!

If you haven't heard, Holden will be working at BYU-Idaho as professor of Biology starting in August. We are very excited and proud of him for his hard work in his post-doctorate fellowship here at UNC in Chapel Hill, NC. We have enjoyed North Carolina and are sad to leave friends we have made here in the past 4 years. Our family has grown from 2 to 4 here in Chapel Hill, so we have many wonderful memories from our time here that will be dear to us always. The humid Summers have been almost unbearable, but we will miss the NC Springs and Falls which are fantastic. We're excited to have more snow to play in and are looking forward most of all to being closer to our families and friends in the West. We are extremely grateful for this opportunity as this was Holden's first choice for a long time, and we believe this will be a great move for our family. Thank you and love to all, near and far, who have supported, taught and loved us these past 4 years in small and big ways.

December 2011

Thanksgiving

We went to Lexington Kentucky this year for Thanksgiving to visit my dear friend Nancy from High school and her awesome family. We had such a good time!

The drive was a bit treacherous... well only because we have little kids. It was supposed to be an 8 hour drive. We did it in 12 on the way up. We managed to improve our time on the way back to 9.5 hours. But it was completely worth it. Spending time with good friends you've known for a long time is.... I'll be honest the only adjectives I can think of are "delicious" and "sparkly". For tonight that will have to be descriptive enough.

I think Summer had a pretty good time. She got 2 teeth the day after Thanksgiving and was pretty clingy to mommy the whole time, but she weathered it well.

This is a picture of our sweetie Belen after creating her first gingerbread house. She had a blast running around with Nancy's older kids who were so nice to play with her the whole time we were there.

Holden and Nancy's husband Wade discovered they both lived in Kamas Utah as kids.

I was so inspired by Nancy's ability to put on a Thanksgiving dinner with a ton of delicious foods, keep her house clean with 5 children running around, and provide fun crafts or projects for the kids at the same time. It was a wonderful trip!

Feeding off each other