October 2010

October was the month we moved. We were out of our house by the 9th and stayed with Simon's parents for about 5 days until we got the keys to our house. We were so lucky to be able to have pretty much all of our stuff stored at Simon's brother's house. They are only 10 minutes away from our new house, so moving into the new house wasn't too bad.

It was also the time for many goodbyes. :( Before we moved we took cookies to some friends in our neighborhood that we were going to miss. I am sure we didn't get everybody.

Kajsa said goodbye to her awesome preschool teachers that she got to know over the past two years.

Said goodbye to our wonderful house for 4 1/2 years!

Last night with the Young Womens! This is only about a third of them. Yes, I am in there too! They were either my size or bigger! haha! Miss them and the leaders I served with.

Said goodbye to my sister's awesome office at Deseret News. This wasn't because of us moving, but because her office was moving to the KSL building around the same time.

This was the view from the editor's office. It was fun to see the progress of the City Creek area downtown. My sister was the editor's secretary and when he wasn't in his office we would go and check out the view.

Brynn had to say goodbye to her preschool teachers that she only got to know for about 2 months. She felt like such a big girl going to school once a week.

We moved in on the 14th and we had our first visitors on the 15th! Our good friends came to visit Utah from California and they stayed with us. It was kind of crazy for only being in our new home for 1 day and then try to make sure visitors were comfy. They were so nice and had other friends to visit and so I still got some unpacking done.

All the cute kids, minus Maya.

Halloween was fun as usual. We went to another awesome party put on by the Dimonds. We hit up a pumpkin patch. It was freezing and so muddy and most of the pumpkins were rotting. Next year we will try it a little earlier in the month.

Trick or treating at Aunt Lisa's work. Brynn was a witch, Kajsa was Tinkerbell, and Maya was a flower.

The girls and their cool masks made at Dimond's party.

October!?!?!?!

Why hello world! I don't even know if anyone checks this anymore! I think the last time I posted was in April! Wow! We are are all alive and well. If you care to get a little update on what has been going on the past few months then keep on reading!

Things have been a little crazy starting at the end of April when we casually started to look for a new house. Just to see what was out there. We came across an awesome house and offered and they accepted! We were so excited, so we got our house all ready and put it up for sale by the beginning of May. The only hang up was that our offer on the awesome house was contingent on the sale of our house. Easy right?!? ha! Things looked promising when we were averaging at least 2 showings a week. Well, long story short, we kept having showings, but nothing worked out in the time frame we had to sell our house in order to get the awesome house! Bummer! We kept our house for sale and still had showings pretty much every week. I am pretty sure we had the cleanest house on the block! We lowered the price a couple of times and at the beginning of September we got an offer that we accepted. We would have to be out by October 15. So we started looking for a house again figuring we would take our time and just stay in an apartment in the meantime. We got a basement apartment all lined up (which I was not looking forward to because it didn't even have a real kitchen!) I kept telling myself that this was going to just be temporary and that we would save money and that we could make it through it! After a few weeks of looking we found something and offered (lower than the asking price) and it was accepted! YEAH!!! So again, long story short, we should be signing on our current house and on our new house on the same day! **fingers crossed** So right now our house is pretty much empty and my rear end is getting tired of sitting on the floor with boxes. Needless to say we are so excited for the change and a little more room! I hope to be posting pictures from what else we did this summer soon. Hopefully real soon because gosh from the last post my girls have grown up a ton!