Good-Bye Sahuarita, Hello South Beach

It is time for my quarterly blog post, it has been a wild and busy time for us with a lot of changes. January was performing Boeing Boeing! with the Santa Cruz Shoestring Players:

And redoing the floors in our house. Grandma Karen and Grandpa Dave came to help and play with us:

We went to the zoo several times, getting good use out of our membership before our move, and a few times just us and few times with friends.

We did a couple trips, one to house hunt in California where we stayed with family so our boys got to play with their cousins:

Another to St. George to give Lee a chance to pack and get our house ready for listing without our human tornadoes around. We went to Snow Canyon, the St. George Temple, and played with cousins:

We tried to get together with friends and say some good-byes. Finally, we packed up (with a lot of help) and headed out to start a new chapter in the Phillips family adventure. We had some obstacles to settling in initially (imagine soggy laundry all over the house, waiting for a functional washer to be delivered) but after moving past that things got easier.
We spent Easter with our cousins, it is really nice to be able to see family more than once a year. A mere 1-2 hour drive (traffic, amirite?) is such an improvement:

And, yes, if you were wondering, Laszlo is putting a fully wrapped candy in his mouth. These guys had a blast doing their egg hunt and dying and decorating eggs.

We figured as long as we are in SoCal, paying through the nose for the "privilege" of being so close to so many things, we should take advantage of it. Last week we took the kids to Knott's Berry Farm. We have season passes, so please come visit and bring your appetite for thrill rides, Snoopy, and Boysenberries.

The Doctor is "in" but not particularly qualified.

Maybe next quarter we will have more adventures to share. Adventures like "We had to make an appointment 4 weeks in advance to go to the DMV," or "Claire figured out how to get to Costco without google maps," or "How to cook in a tiny kitchen, spoiler alert: it sucks."