Birthdays and New Plans

Poor Gracie is a pretty good sport for the month of May, but all these birthdays are really wearing her down. It's hard for her to understand why she doesn't get presents or a new dress, bike, and pretty pictures of herself. Rock's b-day was May 03, and Alice's b-day was May 18th. Their b-days kind of last the whole month of May because of getting pictures before hand and then picking them up, then their actual b-day, and all the grandmas sending presents in the mail that don't get here until after the b-day. It's kinda stressful for Grace. I told her that she gets the new baby for her birthday, and that always makes her happy. Anyway, Rock and Alice really enjoyed their birthdays. Rock really loves horses so we got him some little animals including a horse to put on his cake. He got a little people barn set. He loves it. Alice got a Hannah Montana cake and a new pink sparkle princess bike. She loves it and she learned how to ride it on the first day! Grace was happy to inherit the old bike but she has to fight Rocky tooth and nail for it. He's a brute. Usually he'll let her have it once I show him that he can tow his trucks behind the little scooter bike.

So our new plan is that we are not going to come visit in June anymore because we are moving to San Jose, CA in July. Ryan decided at the end of the day and at the last second before he couldn't change his mind anymore, that he wanted to go to CA rather than stay in NC. The new SAC (I don't know what it stands for) program that they're launching is based in CA, so he wants to be where all the action is so that he can further his career by being around all the right people. We're way excited but we have made a lot of good friends here in NC and we will miss them. There's really a lot of good people here and good members of the church and that will be hard to leave them. We are nervous about the cost of living also. We are thinking that the job will go virtual in 6 months to a year and then we could move back to Utah but who knows? Anyway, that's the new plan for now. Knowing us, it will change in a couple of weeks!:)

Oh yeah, there's pictures of Rocky and daddy on their first father and son's outing. They went camping and had a blast while I took the girls to the new Hannah Montana show. I had to spell it out to the girl when I was buying the tickets so it wouldn't give it away. It was a big surprise for Alice. They both loved it. They danced throughout the whole show. Grace liked it but she would have been more excited if it were something like Dora.