I know Charlie and I haven't been the best bloggers in the past. But we're gonna try really hard to update this every few days. Right Charlie? I am doing the first post, so if you don't hear from us in a while, I'll blame him.

Getting ready for going to Bolivia was a bit of a headache. Besides just the stress of knowing I was going to a foreign country, I was having a really hard time being host to family that was staying with us, and trying to get the house ready for the new renters, and you know, just packing. I kinda felt like I was going to burst out crying every few minutes. I feel bad leaving nicky with so many projects after we leave. We had a ton of help the last few days though, and we never could have finished without it. My mommy came and did the dreaded job of cleaning the oven, and then later came to take the kids over to Faes. And Fae and Lance watched our kids all day long while we were packing and cleaning. And then Elesa and Richard came and helped us clean up to the last minute. Our ward came and moved stuff and cleaned, and wanted to keep helping even when I didn't have anything left for them to do. So nice. It was also nice of Fae and Lance to let us stay with them the last night and borrow thier car the next morning. Thank-you everybody so much! I'm very moved by your generosity. We owe you one.

Well, we arrived in Bolivia finally. 22 hour flight, 6 checked bags, 6 carry-ons, two strollers and two carseats later. We were sure glad we didn't have to switch airlines and recheck our baggage. But the strollers definitely came in handy. The trip actually seemed pretty short. Well, long, but short. The kids were pretty good though. They were always fine once we were on the plane, but the layovers weren't so great. There was just too many places they could run to and get lost or get into trouble. The last airplane left a good hour and a half later that it was supposed to, and since that was already going to be a seven hour layover, we thought we would never make it. We tried to distract the kids with letter factory, but they were having none of it. But we made it and arrived and managed to fit all our baggage into the car including us and Maria and Juan Carlos. It helped that we didn't have to put the kids in their carseats, so we just held them. And then Owen, Lydia and I all slept for several hours and we're feeling tons better. Charlie didn't sleep because it was too light outside, so he went to check out his new work instead. But he was too tired to actually get anything done today, so he came home a couple hours later. The kids are running around getting into all of the cute little breakables around the house, but Maria doesn't seem to mind and Charlie is already working up ways to make the house more baby proof. Tomorrow we'll start to go look for houses for rent. Honestly, I'm hoping that we'll quickly find one we want because otherwise it will probably just be me looking alone and that doesn't sound like any fun. Whew! Right now I just want to read my book and rest. We'll see how that goes. Its nice to be done with all the stress though. I'm not feeling as immediately sad as I thought I would. I'm sure I'll go through that in the next few months, but for now, I'm just feeling blessed that we're safe and that the kids are happy and that I have my sweet Charlie by my side.

I'll post pictures as soon as I can find my camera and the cord that goes to it. And we'll make video of our new house when we get it. Post more soon.