All Hands on Deck

We are planning on moving on Tuesday. Any and all help would be appreciated. I think we are going to try and start loading a truck in the morning and then as soon as we get the keys start moving stuff in. I am most concerned about getting large items up stairs in the new house.

Notice anything different about Afton?

I wanted to be the one to take Afton to have her ears pierced and make it sort of a Daddy Daughter thing. She did really good and looks really cute in my opinion.

Let it Snow

WOW it looks like The Texas Glades have more snow than the Utah Glades. We had a snow storm a few weeks ago, but it melted and has been really warm since. We finally got another storm on Monday that dumped about 4-5 inches at our house, and that seems to be sticking, but it has also been really warm the last couple of days again. They are saying that we are supposed to have a huge storm this weekend, so we will see if it hits and how much snow we get. I had to take the trampoline down yesterday so they snow wouldn't ruin it and also because we are moving. We will probably have to come back in the spring and clean up all of the "yard" toys as they are now covered with snow. I hope the lakes are getting iced over as this is my favorite time of the year when I get to go ice fishing. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks it will be safe enough to go out on and I can be there soon.

Well maybe the next time I write a blog we will be in our new house and trying to get settled n there. We are really excited to have our own house.

It was fun to have Matthew and Diana up for the weekend, and hang out with Brent and Sarah. The boys had a good time with Spencer and Parker, hopefully they didn't boss him around too much.

Well - from the responses on the family vacation it sounds like everyone might have a good time with the Lake Powell idea. I will start looking into what we could do, and see what would be do-able as far as expenses go - if it is possible to rent a houseboat as far as expenses go, or if would be better to get hotel rooms and theyn just rent a couple of boats for a few days. I'm guessing that summer would be better to do that rather than winter. Anyways, unless anyone has any objections, lets try and plan on Lake Powell in the Summer of 2010 for a family vacation. This could easily change to somehting else, it just sounded like everyone would enjoy that.

Holding Our Breaths

Well, good news bad news. Monday night Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin passed away, and guess who was on call. Another neat experience. One of his daughters and her husband are in our stake and he is in the stake presidency. He is the nephew of Bruce R. McKonkie. Sort of funny, anyways. That was neat.

The good news we also received last night was that we put an offer in on a house and they accepted it the same night. We are excited, but are proceeding with caution and not getting too excited until we have the keys to the door. Hopefully we could be in by Christmas. We will see. Here is a link to see the listing of the house.

http://utahrealestate.com/847251

You can click on property tour to see some photos. I also think the address is sort of cool 1 East 1470 South (just the 1 East is cool)

Family Vacation/Reunion in 2010

So not a whole lot of news to tell about our family (we are sort of boring - ask Sarah), but I wanted to throw the idea of having a family vacation sometime in 2010 that everyone could come to. I talked to Dad one time about it, and just wanted to get the idea out there, especially since Michael mentioned something about going to Cali that year. A couple of ideas that come to mind would be going to Cali to DisneyLand (assuming Matthew and Diana are still there that would give us a place to stay), cabins at Colter Bay, or going to Nauvoo. I guess it would be good if we could try and find a place that was sort of "in the middle" for everyone, but I don't know what that would be. I guess we could meet in Ship Rock and spend a week there. Anyways just wanted to get some feelers out and see what people thought. The other thing would be how long we wanted to gather and what time of the year. Another idea that could be a little expensive, but maybe lots of fun - house boat at Lake Powell, or renting a boat and staying down there and playing on the lake. Let's try and make something happen and keep this in mind when planning your family - no babies in 2010 (kidding)

Back in the market

Well we are back in the market for a house. We had our house inspected and there was quite a few things that were in need of repair. After talking to as many people as we could about the situation we decided to cancel our offer. Our Real estate agent said he thought that was was a pretty good idea after we told him, so hopefully it was the right one. It feels right to us so far. So now we begin the process of looking for another house again. Hopefully we can find something soon and keep moving forward with moving!!

Sometimes they do listen

So one of the boys favorite bed time stories is when we lost the fisher price guys and prayed and found them - along with any other story that has to do with the farm. This morning I was leaving to go to work and Landon and Carter were playing with there little star wars guys and couldn't find general grevous. I was kissing them goodbye as they were looking for him outside when I heard Cater tell Landon "Maybe we should say a prayer to help us find him." Last I checked they still hadn't found him, but sort of chokes me up to hear them talk like that. They do listen!!!!

Another note about listening - we took Landon to the ear Dr. and he wasn't concerned at all. He said that he was so close to normal he wasn't concerned too much. He said when people actually have hearing damage the results Landon had are considered great. He put him on an anti-inflammatory nasal spray to see if there is any swelling that could be reduced and make the hist test normal. He said worst case scenario is that they would put tubes in his ears, to help him equalize the pressure, but he was not concerned at all with where he was.