Grand Reopening 2020
We are officially rededicating this space yet again to be a place for family updates, journaling, random thoughts and basically just a good place for us to write and post our random thoughts and memories. The plan is to take turns once a week posting, but we will see how that goes haha.
Today it's me, Kelli!
I renamed this blog “Mojave Hills” because Derek has accepted a job as an interventional radiologist in Kingman, AZ, and we’ll be relocating our family there this coming July! Kingman is a delightful little city situated in the Mojave Desert, just a few hours south of St. George and 1.5 hours east of Las Vegas. It is considered “high desert” and has milder weather than Phoenix. The first time we drove into town for the interview I said to Derek “We’re in Radiator Springs!” They are very proud of their Route 66 heritage. Vintage cars and gas stations abound, along with beautiful desert mountains and cool rock formations.
The radiology group and their families have already been so welcoming to us. All of them trained at the Mayo Clinic and the hospital in Kingman is Mayo affiliated. We’re getting very excited to start this new chapter of our lives.
Currently, we are living in beautiful Boston for the next few months, and I’m trying to soak up every second of it and not get too trunky. Not always easy when I think of the space and the warm dry desert air we’ll be moving to, not to mention a brand new home! We are building a ranch style house on an acre lot. We were able to go walk through it a few weeks ago. Our builders are awesome and have been so patient with me asking dumb questions and sending in my amateur floor plan ideas on graph paper. It has been a great learning process and I'm sure we'll make mistakes but it will be all ours and it will be wonderful.
Since I started writing this, the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic has happened. The kids are out of school and we are facing a couple weeks of chaos/fun at home. I'm pretty much resigned to having a messy house and letting everyone run wild. Hopefully we can squeeze in some at-home learning in there a few times.
I am so grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ and the comfort it brings me during uncertain times. Tonight during Family Home Evening Jack got up and gave a little talk/lesson about baptism. He said that it was important to remember that baptism is a decision we make, not just something we're forced into. I loved that. I'm glad he knows that he is making his own choices and using his agency to follow Christ.
Kate and Amy came over today and the kids put on a big wrestle fight show for us on the mattress. They got pretty physical and Henry would start crying and then Doctor Annie would step in and kiss it better before he jumped right back in. She got a doctor kit in her Kiwi crate today and she has been loving playing doctor. I think she'd make and excellent doctor!
Henry has been working on saying "I" instead of "me." Like "I want a glass of plain milk" instead of "me want a glass of plain milk." he's doing....okay. I give him a 4/10.
Welp, that's all I got this week. Love,
Kelli
Today it's me, Kelli!
I renamed this blog “Mojave Hills” because Derek has accepted a job as an interventional radiologist in Kingman, AZ, and we’ll be relocating our family there this coming July! Kingman is a delightful little city situated in the Mojave Desert, just a few hours south of St. George and 1.5 hours east of Las Vegas. It is considered “high desert” and has milder weather than Phoenix. The first time we drove into town for the interview I said to Derek “We’re in Radiator Springs!” They are very proud of their Route 66 heritage. Vintage cars and gas stations abound, along with beautiful desert mountains and cool rock formations.
The radiology group and their families have already been so welcoming to us. All of them trained at the Mayo Clinic and the hospital in Kingman is Mayo affiliated. We’re getting very excited to start this new chapter of our lives.
Currently, we are living in beautiful Boston for the next few months, and I’m trying to soak up every second of it and not get too trunky. Not always easy when I think of the space and the warm dry desert air we’ll be moving to, not to mention a brand new home! We are building a ranch style house on an acre lot. We were able to go walk through it a few weeks ago. Our builders are awesome and have been so patient with me asking dumb questions and sending in my amateur floor plan ideas on graph paper. It has been a great learning process and I'm sure we'll make mistakes but it will be all ours and it will be wonderful.
Since I started writing this, the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic has happened. The kids are out of school and we are facing a couple weeks of chaos/fun at home. I'm pretty much resigned to having a messy house and letting everyone run wild. Hopefully we can squeeze in some at-home learning in there a few times.
I am so grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ and the comfort it brings me during uncertain times. Tonight during Family Home Evening Jack got up and gave a little talk/lesson about baptism. He said that it was important to remember that baptism is a decision we make, not just something we're forced into. I loved that. I'm glad he knows that he is making his own choices and using his agency to follow Christ.
Kate and Amy came over today and the kids put on a big wrestle fight show for us on the mattress. They got pretty physical and Henry would start crying and then Doctor Annie would step in and kiss it better before he jumped right back in. She got a doctor kit in her Kiwi crate today and she has been loving playing doctor. I think she'd make and excellent doctor!
Henry has been working on saying "I" instead of "me." Like "I want a glass of plain milk" instead of "me want a glass of plain milk." he's doing....okay. I give him a 4/10.
Welp, that's all I got this week. Love,
Kelli
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