Beach

Since we are staying in Southern CA for the time being we like to take advantage of being so close to the beach whenever we can. Ben LOVES the beach: he loves the waves and the sand and roasting hotdogs and getting buried and building sandcastles and chasing the water and getting wet and eating sandy chips and walking along the Pier. It is one of his favorite places to go. When we were still in Kingman he would often talk about going to Grandpa and Grandma Sorensen's house so that we could go to the beach. The last time we went Dad buried all the kids in the sand. They thought it was pretty great.

New Home

Well we officially said goodbye to our house in Kingman. Dad has been working with Grandpa Sorensen since February in CA, and so he was down there a LOT and I was in Kingman with the kids. It was tough to be away so much, so we knew that once Caelan was done with school we would make the move to CA. So we did. We are currently staying with the Sorensen in Murrieta until we know for sure what area Dad will be working in and therefore where we want to be for a while. We think it will most likely be here in Murrieta, but we shall see. Anyway, we got everything together to move the week after Caelan finished school. We ended up getting a storage unit in Kingman (MUCH CHEAPER than CA) for all our stuff, and then we drove down to CA. We drove back to Kingman with my dad's huge van and a trailer to get the stuff we were going to take with us(beds and clothes and such). And then we said goodbye to our house. Even though I knew this was a good move for us it still was tough leaving that home behind...especially with all the work we put into it. I really love that house (and I think there is even more of a special feeling about it because it was our very fist home (that was ours)). So we are onto our next adventure. Good times. Dear 1820 Broudy Drive, We're sure going to miss you. We're going to miss the huge Mulberry trees in the front yard and the view of them from the living room window, and Caelan is going to miss climbing way up into their branches. We're going to miss the wide open living/family/kitchen area where we did lots of good old "living." We're going to miss the red master bathroom and the handprint painted border in the kids room. We're going to miss the huge fireplace and the wood floor in the kitchen (that we laid ourselves). We're going to miss the ceiling fans in EVERY room. We're going to miss the workshop in the backyard (especially Dad) and all the storage in the garage. We are going to miss the circle driveway and the apple tree in the backyard (that the kids would pick tiny apples from in the Fall). We're going to miss the roses in the front yard and the fence around them (that Ben broke part of when he put the Galaxy in drive one day and rolled down the driveway). We're going to miss the huge kitchen counter and the little shelf around the kitchen cupboards. You've been a good house for us, and we're going to miss walking into your doors every day. Love, The Dicks