"MY New House"

Here are some pictures of what Arlee calls, "MY new house". We ask her if we can share it with her and she will tell us no and say it is "MY new house, not YOUR (mine and Hans') new house." We'll even tell her that we are going home and she'll say, "No, I want to go to MY new house."


ARLEE'S new house

Arlee's room and the new baby's room when it arrives. Kind of hoping for another girl because then I can leave everything the same. : )

 The play house that we made for her to replace the one we had in our old house. My mom and I made this.

Arlee sleeps in the toddler bed and we have since moved the baby's bed away from hers since she likes to climb up on it and get in it. I put her down for a nap one afternoon and found her in the baby's bed. She had a huge smile on her face to make it even more funny. I couldn't help, but laugh at the situation. This isn't the only time either. Last night she was trying to get in it we are guessing... we heard her screaming and so we went up stairs and she said that she bonked her head trying to get into baby's bed.  That is when we moved it a few feet away...

 Guest bedroom and office.  We don't want to scare anyone that wants to come see us the floor space could easily fit a queen blow up matress. Just a thought. And if you have any kids they can sleep in Arlee's room. She loves having sleep overs I found out after watching my nephew, Brock for a couple of days.

 I know these pictures are kind of the same, but I wanted to get the vaulted ceilings in there. We have them in all three of the bedrooms.

 This is the main bathroom which would be shared with guests and Arlee.

 

 The stairs in our house... beautiful huh? Hahaha... notice the vaulted ceilings

 Our bedrooom

 Our bathroom

 Half bathroom on the main floor.

 Dining room

 Kitchen

 Kitchen and dining room. By the way I love all of our counter space that we have now.

 Living room/ work out room

Another tid bit for you. We have a backyard, but it is very small and not fenced in at all. Arlee has made use of some chalk and bubbles out there though. Our house is 1400 sq feet. 3 bd 2 and a 1/2 baths and as you can tell one car garage. All the bedrooms and the 2 full bathrooms are upstairs. Kitchen, dining, living room and the half bath are on the main level.

Well now that you have seen our place here on internet doesn't mean that you get the excuse not to come and see us. We would love to have vistors. Just make sure you give me a day warning okay? OKAY? Ha ha ha... jokes.

What do we have to do here (that we have found so far):
Camping: 10 mintues away
Movies:5 minutes away
Bike/ walking paths 5 minutes away
Parks: They seem to be everywhere, but our favorite one so far is 5 minutes away
Floating down the river: 10-15 minutes away
Not sitting in traffic EVER!
Go to church: 5-10 minutes
Draw with Chalk: out the front/back door
Blow bubbles: out the front/back door
Be with nature: Anywhere and everywhere: 5 mintues plus
Seattle: 2.5 hours
Pasco/ Kennewick, Walla Walla (a.k.a. TRI CITIES): about an hour
Yakima Airport: 10 minutes max
Mexican food: everywhere but 5 minutes
Italian food: 10 minutes
American food: 5 minutes
Fishing: 2 minutes (there are lakes and rivers everywhere here. I am surprised it looks so dry. Much like Utah though. The mountains are not as pretty, but I will take them.

Just thought I would add

A little note for ya that I am pretty excited about.... I felt the baby move! I love that feeling and I can't wait to feel it again and again.  The first time was last Sunday (a week ago). YAY!

We are here!

Well we are here, or there, however, you want to look at it. My mom, Arlee and I drove up to Baker City, Oregon on Thursday and stayed the night. Then we drove to our new place and met with the manager to sign the papers. After that we went to a town 30 miles away and stayed the night there. We went swimming and had a blast. Woke up the next morning and had breakfast and packed up the car.

Everything was going great! We got to our house and unloaded the car. After talking to the moving company we decided to leave and check things out around town. They weren't going to get there until 5 PM. My mom usually takes me shopping for my birthday (coming up on July 13th) if she doesn't already know what to get me. Since we are living away from her now we took care of that while she was up here. She got me some shoes and a necklace.  The shoes worked well for Sunday since I couldn't find any of my shoes or jewelry. Anyway, the mall here is small, but it works for what we needed it for.

After shopping we went to the park and let Arlee play. I needed to stock up on the staple items that we didn't already have with us. We went to Target and got most of the way done with our shopping to find out that it wasn't a Super Target so it didn't have all the food items I needed. No wonder why the sign looked so funny! Anyway, buying meat for me is a bit of a struggle since I really like Harmons meat (all natural) and most other places, put stuff in it. I guess since working at Harmons and educating customers on their products verse the comp. it really grosses me out. Also cutting the fat off the chicken is really gross to me. Which, you never have to do with the chicken breasts at Harmons.  Well we ended up buying meat at Albertsons. I will have to find the new best place to buy it. Any suggestions?

The movers were supposed to call and let me know when they were an hour out from our place. After 4 o'clock came and went and they were going to be there at 5 I called the company again. They said they would call them and have them call me. No call and it was 5 by this time. Called them again and then the guy told me that they were stuck in TRAFFIC 11 miles out from our house (by the way there is no traffic out here. it isn't like it is  Salt Lake). So I called the movers... they didn't speak English very well and they told me 20 minutes. Well then it was 5:30 and they still weren't here! I was getting really annoyed by this point. Called them again to ask them if they were lost. No answer. Then they called me after about 10 minutes and were coming up the street and weren't sure which complex we lived in. We don't live on a complex. Then I heard the truck and they unloaded our stuff.

Let me tell you it is a good thing that there is such a thing as delivery since was a stinking hungry!  They managed to only break a couple of things that aren't too important, but they will be paying for. Oh yeah and they sliced our new matress with a razor blade!!! It is only about 2 inches long and on the side, but still I would love it in the condition it left in. Bought it from RCWilley and the closest one is BOISE, ID which is about 7 hours away. Better believe they will be paying for that too. So irritating.

All in all I loved having movers and them loading and unloading everything while I told them where to take it. So glad that my mom could drive up with us. My dad giving us a free night in a hotel and the 1st lady messing up royal so we got another night free. Hans coming home safely from training and making it to our new house. My mom helping us unpack and being a trooper through the lifting things here and there so I didn't have to. Hans taking care of us and just having a positive attitude about everything. Arlee for being such a big girl and being accident free the whole time that we were driving. To little baby for staying put and making my appointment with out Hans an easy one. Not only that but the move as well. Also to little baby for being a hard little mover to easy my worrying. YES, I felt the baby move for the first time during sunday school at church. Happiest moment in our time in Yakima. That is one way to make a paranoid mother smile.

Kasiah, me and Arlee blowing out my birthday pie

Arlee and I posing for a picture (Hans was at his training in California)

 This was taken one of the days that we were packing... Adorable

 This is one of the places Arlee patiently waited for the movers to finish

 Our living room in the apartment

 This is in Ellensburg, WA were we stayed for the second night.

No my mom doesn't have a lot of moles on her face, Arlee just kicked up the water as I took the picture. She had a great time.

 

Less Than A Week...

I can't believe that my mom, Arlee and I will be in Washington. It has gone by so fast. Not saying that initially I had a lot of time to prepare (3 weeks), but it really has gone by really fast. I will be taking Hans to the airport tomorrow (Father's Day), which is a bummer. He will be in training from Monday to Friday afternoon. His mom will then pick him up from the airport (we'll be in Washington by then). He'll sleep over at their house and then take his Utah Law test the next day at 8 AM and then drive up to Washington. Hans thinks that he will be driving up there with out needing to stop for a room, but I think that he will be too tired to make the whole journey. We'll see though. On Tuesday, Hans will be going up to Seattle to take the NAPLEX and then he will take the Washington Law test in July. I'll tell ya his life is pretty crazy right now. Lately, all that he has done is prepare for these tests.
The book that Hans is studying now is about 850 pages and he is on page 658. He has been studying out of it for about 2 weeks. That is way too much reading for me. And it isn't just the reading he also has to be tested on it. Yikes!
He is doing a great job on it. As irritating as it is with him reading and I me packing and getting everything ready I have to remember he is not being lazy he is studying. I know that sounds bad and luckily I feel less sick than I have been. My mom is going to be coming and helping me pack while Hans is gone so I don't lift too much and risk hurting the baby.
I have my last appointment here in Utah the day before we leave. I will feel so much better after going to that appointment. I am just worried that my body might still think that I am pregnant again. This appointment I will be by myself, so hopefully it is a good one. I often wonder if it is normal to be so paranoid, but it is hard not to think about since the last pregnancy was a shocking surprise at the appointment.
I will keep you updated....
Until next time!
The Hoges

ZOO!

Before we leave to Washington I am trying to hang out with all friends possible. Yesterday we went to the Utah Hogle Zoo with some long time friends of mine, Mushrush's (ours).
Background- I grew up with Laura and have known her since the summer before 7th grade.  We have played soccer together for years and have our 1st children with in 2 weeks of each other.

Anyway, here are some pictures from the day of play.

 We bought Arlee a hat since we completely forgot that she is still kind of bald. Spaced bringing one all together.

 Arlee loved watching these monkeys. They had a lot of energy and didn't mind showing off for all to see. One of these monkeys had a baby holding on to it's stomach with arms and legs as it ran and jumped along like any of the other monkeys. Really cute to see, but we couldn't get a picture of it before it would hide again.

 Male elephant

 Gage and Jon.

 Arlee and I with the Male elephant

 Mom and baby elephant

 RINOS

 Arlee loves the cockatoos! Ever since she got one in her Happy Meal at McDonald's promoting the movie RIO (which she has never seen). She also loves Tucans too.  This is from a bird show and the next picture as well.

 Gage and Arlee digging for fossils as part of the new Dino exhibits.

 Gage and Arlee looking at the porcupine

Gage hated when the T-REX would growl. A lot of the kids didn't seem to mind much, but the younger ones did. When REX would roar Arlee said, "BE NICE REX!" so cute. Then she would ask to touch them.

 Arlee looking at the tiger

 Jon and Gage and Hans and Arlee.

 Peacock was fanning its feathers. Never seen this before until yesterday

 When Arlee saw the gorilla she said, "Where's Tarzan?" Hahaha funny!

*Sorry about all the bleached out pictures I didn't realize that Hans messed with the settings on the camera until the picture below.

 Arlee playing on the slide at the new Discovery land which has a lot of Dinos in there, but I didn't get any pictures of.

 Arlee playing on the Crocodile.

Thanks to the Mushrush Family for going with us to the Zoo before we left. We had a blast and it would be something that I would like to do again. We will miss our little outtings together.

The Hoges

Hans' Graduation

Here are some pictures of Hans' graduation day, June 4th, 2011.

 This is before the graduation fun started.

 Arlee helping me save spots... She was so good at it too. No one wanted to fight with her.

 Hans looking at me to get a picture before getting his name read.

 This was after he got his name read and hooded as a Doctor of Pharmacy.

 Hans walking out after the ceramony was over.

 Our little family. You can see the "hood" that the doctors where around Hans' neck. (Very uncomfortable to wear).

 My parents with Hans. (I thought I got one with his parents, but I guess not. : (

 All of my side that was at his graduation.

 Hans' side

So for Hans' graduation present my parents gave him some money to take me out on a date. We went and saw Kunfu Panda 2, Ate dinner at Red Robin and then went and had ice cream at Leatherbys-something I am going to miss a lot while we are not living in Utah.

 Hans at Red Robin.....YUM!

 Me.

 Me enJOYing my Almond JOY sundae

Hans eating his Traci's Peanut Butter Cup.

Thanks to all that have supported Hans in his schooling years and to everyone that came and shared his special day with him.

Thanks to my parents for this night out and watching Arlee for us. Probably the last time that we will go out before we move. TEAR...

We are looking forward to Hans getting paid the REAL money to do what he has been doing thoroughout his school years. We are so glad that it is over and we can move on with life.

Hans is currently studying for his FINAL tests that he will take once he gets the okay.  Then we will wait for his PHARMACIST license. After he has that Albertsons (new company that he is working for) will pay him the big bucks. Haha we have a lot of loans to pay off so... The BIG bucks are going to seem like little big bucks until those are paid. Either way he will be making more than what he has been and we are excited for that and to buy a house and settle somewhere.

I am sure I am not the only one, but I hate moving and this one and done me in. We are going to be in a town house for a little bit, until Hans gets his license then we will start looking for a house. So I guess one more move and also a new baby before getting to that stettling point for a while.

Wish us luck. We love you all.

The Hoges!

The offers came!

Hans got a job! He really got two jobs, but because he can't be in two places at the same time he is taking one. That one would be Albertsons in Yakima, Washington. We will be moving our little family about 700 miles away (12 hours) into a town house that we've never seen and we hope we like it. I saw a picture on googlemaps.com, but it doesn't give me anything of the inside. However, talking to the lady it sounds amazing. I will post pictures as soon as I am able.  We will be moving out there on the 24th of this month.
That is the plan as of now, since Hans doesn't really know when he will be getting home from his training in California. He'll fly out the 19th (Father's Day)-bummer I know and come back that Friday, the 24th. Hopefully at a decent hour or the movers will be there before we will. Especially since I need to get out of the car being pregnant and we have Arlee who will also as you can imagine need to get out of the car.
I will keep you updated. Keep up in your prayers that everything will go smoothly.
Love,
the not knowing anythingers. :)