"Under Contract"

Here is a picture of the house in Woods Cross we are buying! We are hoping to close on August 18th and move in August 20th!! It's a California-Split with 3 bedrooms, 1 & 3/4 bathrooms upstairs and an unfinished bedroom and bathroom downstairs. Additionally...a full kitchen and dining room, formal living room, family room, laundry room, crawl space, 2 car garage. Let's hope it's smooth riding from here on out!!

Update...

Ok, for those that are wondering...here's what's going on with our move. Grandma's house did sell. My cousin Aaron and his wife Sharee are buying it! Yay! We're glad it's staying in the family and I'm sure they'll do fabulous things with it which is already under way. So, that means we are on to a new chapter of our life. We've been searching for a house for at least 2 months now (really since last November but with an agent for the last 2 months). We've made offers on three homes, none of which have panned out. Thanks to our agent Blake (who by the way is fantastic!) for being unbelievably patient with us. We are a LITTLE on the picky side so our pickings are slim. So, where are we going and when? We'll be moving sometime in the next 2-3 weeks and we're moving to a teeny tiny 2 bedroom apartment in Bountiful. Why you ask? Because we're cheap! We'd rather save our money quickly and get into our own home sooner than squander our money away on an extravagant 3 bedroom townhouse. We're going to keep attending our current ward until we move to our permanent home. No sense in going to a new ward and have to try and learn a couple hundred names for just a couple of months, right? So, we're still around and we'll still be close.

We're Moving!

The time has come...a chapter is closing... We're moving but we don't know when and we don't know where. We know it'll be sometime in August and we know it'll be somewhere in Bountiful or Centerville. We've been here in grandma MacKay's basement for 3 1/2 years. We will be forever grateful to grandma for sharing her home with us. We will miss the amazing ward we've been a part of and the friendships we've made and hope they will continue on even though we're moving on. We'll miss the awesome sledding hill in the backyard but not shoveling the great and spacious driveway. We will miss the cool quiet evenings on the back patio with the breeze in the trees but not the hot un-air-conditioned basement. We'll miss the huge yard for the kids to play in and the orchard like a forest for the kids to roam but we won't miss the almost 3/4 of an acre lawn to mow. We are excited for our new adventure and those who will be a part of it.

Crazy July!

Ok, it's been a while since you've heard from me and it's been quite the busy time but isn't July always like that. So, here's a little of what I've done and a few pics to follow:

• Eclipse - opening night 9:00 pm showing - WAHOO!! Loved it!!
• BBQ with Quinn, Meg and boys - We'll win "Scene it" next time!
• I actually worked for the first time in 2 months!
• Centerville 4th of July Parade - Kayla got so much taffy
• Kiddie Pool get together with Claudia and her 2 kids
• BBQ with my brother Marc and a few rounds of "Settlers of Catan"
• Kiddie Pool get together with Meg and the boys - Cayden split his chin open and ended up getting 3 stitches on the inside and 11 stitches on the outside
• Eclipse and dinner with the neighborhood girls
• Zoo with Meg, Kristen and the kids
• House hunting and vacating the premises while house-lookers come to grandma's
  

Here's a picture of the boys playing in the pool (Joe, Cayden, Cooper, Cole) and Meg's sexy legs!!

Here's the kids at the zoo. Joe, Kayla, Cooper and Cayden.

Joe Joe in his diaper walking around in MacKayla's high heeled sandals.
He loves shoes! And please let him be potty trained within the next 6 months!!

We've been so busy that we can't seem to get enough sleep. As you can see Joe fell asleep while I was reading him a book. It's also been so hot in grandma's basement that we're constantly in the kiddie pool just to cool off. Oh how I long for my own air-conditioned house. I know you're out there...we'll find you soon!!

Retro Joe

We have one picture of Joe from before 1994, the year we met. Thanks to Joe's cousin Melisa she found a few of him and here is one of them. He is such a cutie! When I first looked at this I was shocked at how much little Joe looks like big Joe. Crazy!!

This is the one picture we had from when Joe was a kid. Seriously his hair kept growing and from what he says...he just kept growing a mullet. Nasty!

Oh what do you do in the summertime?

We had such a late Spring and went straight from 50's to 80's. We were so excited for the sunshine and looking forward to swimming...and then Kayla broke her arm. So, what do you do? Well, purchasing an air-tight cast cover was out of the question...$27 for 4 weeks of use? I don't think so! That's when duct tape comes in handy. So, we wrapped her cast with a hand towel and taped some plastic bags around the towel. Voila!! Mostly air-tight cast cover and it cost maybe 50 cents. We spent the day hanging out at the kiddie pool in our backyard and having a blast!! That girl is going to have one heck of a farmer tan.