Walkthrough Video

Well everyone, it's finally finished. As of last Saturday we are officially unpacked (except for the misc stuff that we don't know what to do with yet). But there aren't any more boxes to step around or piles to step over, so we are excited! We can finally feel like we're home. And so, for all of you who did not get to see the apartment, we've made a small home-made video of our place (as suggested by Chad). It ended up being 6 mins long, and I had a heck of a time trying to compress it but keep it's quality decent. So in the end, I broke it in half. (1st half - 8.1mb, 2nd half - 6.4mb) They're not exactly small, so it may take a little time to download. But enjoy!!

This is the first half...

This is the second half...

The things a 7 month old can do...

Jovin is learning to count, work on his balancing skills, and watch Toy Story at the same time... boy, Killpack's can sure multi-task.

One... Piece of cake!

Two... Keep 'em comin'!

Three... Wait a minute now...

Four... Holy Crap!!! ( I did it! )

The Phoenix Suns (Dogs?)

Well, I was there when Mom saw the wondrous sight in the sky on the family's fabulous trip to Arizona. At the time, I was slightly preoccupied with returning the rental truck and making sure the guy didn't charge me for anything else (after the place in Sandy doubled the price for a last minute upgrade to a bigger truck which was caused by a junk panic), but I did capture a glimpse of the said Sun Dog. I was a little disappointed that I did not relax for another moment or two to enjoy the doggy-dog, because it was actually pretty cool.

But to my appeasement, within a week there was another one. And after talking to Mom, we concluded that they must occur often here in Phoenix (with no mountains to block them or something like that). Which reminds me, it's funny - the locals refer to Phoenix as "the valley". Just today, I was asked, "So you just moved to the valley, huh?" I about died of laughter as Phoenix is a flat as a true flat screen TV compared to Salt Lake! What valley?! I think that our days are actually about 10 minutes longer then back there in Salt Lake. You know, less time being blocked by the mountains and all...

So anyway, Jovin is sure growing up fast down here. We just got his elementary school class picture, his teacher sent him to the Principal's office for it.

Just kidding, she sent him straight home without storytime or graham crackers. He was pretty upset about that...

So anyway, thanks again for all of you who helped directly or indirectly in getting us down here. We are loving it. We are close to being totally unpacked (the progress slowed once I started work), but as per Chad's suggestion - we hope to record a walk-though once we are done. Then I will try and post it to the blog for everyone that didn't come with us.

So until then, I will be here playing on my computer... and you can go to this.

PS- A junk panic is a term used in the moving business for when a person has too much junk and begins to panic at the thought of having to move it all and worrying about how on earth they can get it all to fit.

We Made It!!!

Well we finally made it!! The trip went well to Phoenix. Cory and my Dad (Dirk) got up early last Friday and got all of our stuff and themselves here safely... (Dad almost got a speeding ticket!) Cory's Mom (Dianne) and Chad left about 2 hours after Cory and Dirk and they didn't catch up with them until they were about 2 hours outside of Phoenix. Jovin, I and Angie (Chad's wife) flew Friday afternoon and got to the apartment about an hour before everyone else. The apartmet is AWESOME!!! It is SO MUCH bigger than our little shoebox of a home we left behind in the student apartments at the university.

Mom, Chad and Angie left us Saturday night. Dad left Sunday afternoon. It was wonderful to have their help in getting us down here and all moved in. We have only been here a week and we are missing everyone... I think it is because we are now realizing that we can't just drive to Mom's for dinner or hang with friends on the weekend... We now have to fly.

We'll post pictures of the apartment once I have it all organized and stuff put where it belongs. The reason it took so long for us to post anything was because we FINALLY got our phone, cable, and internet hooked up about 30 minutes ago. I never realized how much I use the internet until I didn't have it for a week. "I Love Technology!"



Well 2 days ago Jovin turned 7 months old and I think he is looking more and more like Cory... What do you all think? He is sitting up A LOT better now and rolling all over... he some how did a 180 in his bed the other night... He also just learned to do raspberries... (which makes feeding time a lot more fun and entertaining for me!)

Anywho, more from us later! Miss you all!