The Grubers: MAY 2019 - Our Last Month in Our Orem House

This year, my birthday was on a Friday. Jason made me an amazing breakfast. While Charlie was at school and Jason was at work, Colson, Jonah, and I took a walk around the Provo City Center Temple. It was beautiful with all of the flowers and the weather was perfect. That night, Kim and Kyle tended the boys while Jason and I went to Harvest for dinner. We turned it into a double date with Max and April and went and saw the new Avengers movie, Endgame, after dinner. The food was delicious and the movie was awesome! We are not even Avengers or Marvel fans, but we LOVED this movie.

our little temple photo shoot:

love this card Charlie made for me!

Another birthday surprise was we got to go to the new Lehi house while the Monson’s were out of town to get some measurements so we could plan, prep, and purchase things like furniture. I was very excited about being able to do this.

wanting to brick the fireplace

Spring soccer began. Both teams won their first games. Colson continued to score many goals. Charlie kept improving and loved playing defense. He mentioned a couple of times wanting to play goalie. Well, his age group doesn’t have a goalie yet, but maybe he will do it one day in a future season. Several of Charlie and Colson’s games ended up being at the same time, but luckily at the same park. So we would take turns going back and forth between the games. We were also lucky to have many visitors for many of the games, including grandparents, Karl, and Camry.

We attended a special music event at Thanksgiving Point. It was May 4th and they advertised it as a “May the Fourth” concert, highlighting Star Wars music. We went with my parents and were excited to attend with our take out dinners and chairs on the grass. However, we slightly misunderstood. They did open with a Star Wars song, but the rest of the concert was not related. So the interest of the boys disappeared before too long. But, overall, I loved being there for the beautiful setting and Tulip Festival.

That Sunday we had a birthday dinner for me at our house with my family. We had yummy enchiladas.

Charlie had his school Spring Fling/Mother’s Day Program. It was very sweet! They had a musical program and a picnic lunch outside. It's always so nice to have special, one-on-one time with my boys.

We had a baby shower for our Primary friend, Lexi, at Melanie’s house.

And then it was Mother’s Day. For breakfast we had yummy cinnamon rolls. Then it was church, nap, then dinner at the Grubers. We combined this dinner with my birthday celebration. I had given my mom some flowers and a card the day before when my parents came for soccer games.

Colson's friend Luke

from Colson

the kids helped decorate :)

Many of our free nights or Saturdays were spent looking at furniture stores and making other plans and decisions for our new house. It was very exciting, fun, overwhelming, and exhausting at the same time.

Colson had a fun preschool field trip to Farm Country.

I celebrated my birthday with Jaleah and Bryton at Chili’s.

Amy and I did our combined birthday celebration as a lunch this year. We brought along our babies and ate at Corner Bakery Cafe.

For George’s Sunday Birthday dinner we contributed by bringing a fresh strawberry pie. It was delicious!

amazing table decor all about George!

We got the electrical and siding taken care of as required by the buyers of our Orem house. We were very lucky to get away with only having those two repairs after the inspection. We were also lucky because we got the appraisal waived, so we didn’t have to deal with that either.

a surprising siding duo

after painting:

With the temperatures heating up, Charlie started riding his bike to school with Kenyon and Ethan. They all loved it!

Charlie and Colson have started earning “money” towards Star Wars Legos. They have been filling up their charts with extra jobs, having good attitudes, and going to bed happily. Charlie has especially been good and busy, very dedicated and excited about earning his General Grievous and Mace Windu Legos. It definitely helps having some kind of reward system to encourage good and helpful behavior. Now I just wish they wanted something besides just expensive Star Wars Legos all of the time. But, oh well, whatever works.

My cousin, Chad, passed away on May 20th taking his life after a very difficult life, battling with many things. We pray he has finally found peace.

Colson had his preschool graduation from VIP Preschool. It was so cute and formal! I loved it, it was very sweet. It was sad to say goodbye to it though.

last day of preschool

The next several weeks became a blur that I could not account for. We were extremely busy finishing packing, cleaning, and preparing for the move. The move-in date would be Saturday, June 1st. However, they were allowing us to start moving things in the Friday night before. So we took a small load over the last evening of May and got to show George and Nancy, who would be taking and tending the kids that night and next morning while we moved everything else from the house and finished cleaning. Moving is such an overwhelmingly huge task! But we made it. The buyers of our house would be moving in the next day, June 2nd.