New Home!

I have been MIA and terribly eager to get back to blogging. But...I have a good excuse. We have moved! We didn't really announce it was happening because with the real estate market the way it is right now we practically didn't even know if we were moving until the day we moved!
I want to attempt to make this post positive, because things have turned out well!
But... I cannot lie, this has been one of the most trying times of my life. I put it up there with the Top Five hard things I have ever gone through.

1. You have to sell your house, it has to be clean all the time...and then there is the waiting.
2. You have to get the person buying your home to qualify for their financing, not easy to do right now.
3. You have to get your own financing for the home you want to buy.
4. You have to hope that the person who's home you are buying can get THEIR financing for their new home.

-basically what I am trying to say is DON'T EVER BUY A HOUSE. No just kidding, but I am actually sorta serious. It has been so hard.


BUT, we made it.
There were so many obstacles along the way, not to mention some disappointments.
-Dave Matthews cancelled the concert, total devastation right there, we were so looking forward to a break from all the chaos.
-I lost my wedding ring (later to be found in a mysterious place a month later, and after we had already gotten started the process of getting a new one since we had insurance on it.)
-We had to close on the new home THREE TIMES in one day due to a broken printer, then too light of copies, and then an error. Because of being called back into the title company three times in a day we missed our deadline and had to wait several extra days to move in, costing me to live in the same pair of underwear for five days because we couldn't find anything in our Uhaul (I did wash the underwear every day don't worry) not to mention having to pay for the Uhaul for all the extra days.
-Conner is teething again...big surprise. Two year molars this time, I believe after these are in we are done with the teething thing. Man teething seems to haunt my life.
-and so on and so on, I could go on for an hour...
BUT...Like I said. WE MADE IT. WE DID IT. "We did it for ourselves!" as John Mayer says before one of his songs in his live concert album. I know that these trials will have made us stronger and we will appreciate what we have more because it has been hard. The things of most worth in life are always the hardest to achieve/receive. Don't you find that to be true in your life? We sure do.

Anyways for those of you who know Salt Lake, we have moved to Southwood, in Murray, about a mile or two away from where we were living. It's in a fabulous neighborhood across from Wheeler Farm.
The home is a lot like our previous one ironically enough. Just larger, in a better neighborhood, and with a garage...oh a garage...what joy that sentence brings to me.
We are hoping with some TLC this house will be even more amazing in time. But its pretty dang nice as it is!


I need to say a huge thank you to all of you who have been there for me during this rough time and all of you who prayed for us and all of you who helped us move our things.
I can't express how much it has meant to us to have your help.
Now I am just trying to get things unpacked...man what a task. But its kinda fun at the same time. Altho not easy with a toddler.
I'm so mad because none of the doors in the house have round door knobs so I can't put those child proof handle covers on them...I might have to remedy that. But getting all new door knobs sounds really overwhelming. We shall see.



Well...the moment we have all been waiting for...





Old house

New house