Where are the Stokers???

Its been a while...
Its been a long, long year....so far...I keep meaning to update the blog...and then I dont. You know how life goes. So no more excuses! Quick update: We just moved to Gainesville Florida! Rob will be doing his anesthesiology residency here for the next 4 years. We bought our first home here, and we love it so far. It is a great close-knit Resident community, and we are making new friends fast and enjoying life. Rob is putting in 14 hour days his first week, and working hard his intern year, but hoping next rotation and next year will be better!

We miss all our friends and family in Utah, and California. This is a huge adjustment for us, but a great adventure too. We feel beyond blessed to have our little family here, and look forward to what is on store the following weeks! here are some pics to update you on the past few weeks...

Our Baby Drue turned one! 

He loved his cake! 

Tommy graduated from pre-school

Rob graduated grom Medical School!!! 

We will miss our friends from School soo much!!

Our family

 

The scooter boys. This is also what Rob will be driving in residency.

Our growth wall at the Village. Sad to leave it. 

Last swim party at the Jensens.

 

Memorial Day tradition.

After 10 years in Cinderblock --we needed to take a picture of this. 

Our house was ceiling-to-floor boxes. 

We said goodbye to Beaver and Bryce Canyon with our friends, the Gales.

Some of the ladies on our last girls-night-out.

The Whites.  Oh, how we will miss them!

My flight to Fl with Drue was rough, but we drove home to this....OUR NEW HOUSE!!!!  This is a picture that is a few years old. Our grass is green now.

My Mom was a brave soul and drove with Tommy and my Nephew ACROSS the country in our Civic doing Historical sites along the way. When she got here, she helped us TRANSFORM the house to a HOME with all her hand-me-downs. We couldn't have done the move without her help. 

We are still  in the process of making this place our own.  Tommy and I are doing daily projects, like the bathroom and removing hideous wallpaper. He's a great helper, and is trying to get used to hanging with mom all day.

We celebrated with a few other Resident families in a cute town next to us and had a great day. So far we are loving the south and are trying to get used to the humidity! 

All the pressure in the New Year...

With the New Year here.... resolutions are hitting us all right in the face. Im so busy, I havent even had a second to sit down and write my resolutions out, but the hairy truth is....I dont want the guilt associated with it right now. I hate writing things down, only to feel like I am failing at ONE more thing as a mom...I know lots of people feel this way. When I talk to friends  I see us all so HARD on ourselves.  I wish I could give us all a break...but I feel that we all somehow think that if we aren't hard on ourselves, that it wont push us to be better?? At least, maybe thats just me? I always have so many thoughts, and DREAM about having the gift to write like others do in an organized funny way. I dont. But I am grateful that other woman have what it takes to put what they (and what I am feeling inside too) out in words and Share it for us all to read and feel like we are all in this together!! Take a second to read these articles I have found have given me a lift! now, in my "Kate" fashion, Im very well rounded...spiritual with my own twist...Like if you know my, Im a foul mouthed Relief Society Sister with a hard core testimony, but with a saucy sense of humor. So one article is LDS based, and one is not. Both ring true to me. Sorry if you are ever offend by anything I post.

Drops of Awesome:
http://www.daringyoungmom.com/2012/12/19/drops-of-awesome/

Why you are Never failing as a Mom:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-morrison/motherhood_b_2271349.html

Remember, we are all doing are best, and we are doing a pretty great job!