Too much to catch up on

So we've been in Las Vegas for 2 months now and I haven't posted about the move, visiting with friends along the way here, settling in and finding cool things to do here, our brother-in-law's death, Israel's new job, my trip to Hawaii with the boys, how our entire family has become Super Mario Glaxy 2 obsessed, visits with Rueben, Evie, and the latest with our friend Nicole from NY, or anything else along the way. And I'm not going to do it right now. I'm a bit overwhelmed and need to find a place to start--which for my left-brained approach usually means chronologically--and I don't have any pics ready yet. This is the longest I've gone since moving in somewhere without giving a tour of the new digs. And now we've blown right past the just-moved-in orderliness into the s-two-active-boys-live-here-with-their-mostly-single-mother clutter. But, slowly, I will document everything.

For now, let me just say that we're adjusting to the dry heat. I use the special lotions my mom has been sending me for years morning, noon, and night. We love having central air. The boys think The Luxor pyramid is the coolest hotel ever. Next to the "fake New York" one with the outdoor roller coaster. There are slot machines in every grocery store. I found a kind of Portuguese sausage that's mostly like back home. The ward is very nice, but full of older, established families with teenage kids so I'm really, really missing our little branch full of people just like me. But there's got to be others here, right? And I've got a drawer full of clothes I have to lose weight to fit into again. There's a depressing note to end on. Now I feel like eating some ice cream. Yay! Ice cream!