Come Away With Us...: October 2008

Well, it finally happened. We moved! We knew we were going to move since last November, but we just weren't sure when or where. It's actually a long and interesting story, with a few twists and turns in the middle. But the ending was very happy and even a blessing for not just us, but a few others as well. Ask me about it sometime if your really interested?

The house we left behind:

So on September 4th, with tears in our eyes, we packed up and left behind this beautiful house and great yard filled with lots of special memories! NOT! Ha Ha. Tyson and I are not sentimental people and so we actually packed up our stuff with sweat instead of tears and left behind a house, not a home and took our memories with us. It was a great house for us for 4 years and we always felt really lucky to have such a nice place to live, but it was time to turn the page. We were sad to leave the comforts of a big/fun ward, with some great friends, but we weren't going far.

After much thought and a little luck, we ended up just a mile away in a subdivision with a cul-de-sac on an acre! We are so thrilled, because we always said if we were to move, it would have to be to a cul-de-sac with a big yard. We are actually renting a home from a great couple who were called to be mission presidents in northern California for 3 years. And...we bought the acre lot directly behind the house we're renting, to build on in the next year or so. It couldn't have worked out better for our family! We get to live in the subdivision we are eventually building in, so we don't have to change that twice, and we are next door while the house is built, so it's easy to oversee the project. We are so excited!

The house we are renting:

Our lot next door:

Looking east. The house we're renting is in the middle of the picture.

View from the street.

Everyone has been so welcoming here, and there are lots of kids for our kids to play with. We even splurged and got some 4 wheelers for the kids so they could take advantage of the two acres we are calling home right now. (the lot we bought is just dirt, perfect for 4 wheeler trails.) I will be so excited when our house is all done and we can settle down for a long time, but for now, this is not a bad gig either.

I cant figure out the collage thing so I have accepted it and now I'm moving on. I actually got as far as getting the collage done on flicker, but each picture I put in the thing got cut off somewhere. So I ended up with really cute pictures of people's bodies, but no heads? So frustrating!!

Anyway, we're going to skip ahead a few months and pretend like summer didn't really happen. (Wish I could do that with sixth grade when I had the mushroom haircut, and a retainer the size of those giant jawbreakers!) So, here for your enjoyment are the kids annual "first day of school" pictures. FYI- McKay and Makenna are heading off to 4th grade, Kate to 1st and Brooklyn is in her second year of preschool. Cooper is currently being home-schooled. I wanted to join the very small/mysterious, but oh so cool club of home school moms, so I am working with Cooper on his ABCs and also some Algebra when he's really focused!