A New Home

After months of searching and two failed offers, a thir time's a charm. We found a new house for our expandin family. And within a week we became landlords (renting out our condo in record time)! We had to tweak a couple of things in our new home. As you see the wall color was a vibrant green and purple.

Adam had to hand a couple sets of blinds and was excited to use his new power tools. Other than the blinds and the paint, this forclosure was in fantastic condition. We are slowly working on unpacking the guest room, and the baby room will be a work in progress for the next few months.

The first weekend in December was the big moving day. Luckily we had 10 very kind ward members helping us pack up the truck and haul everything. For only two of us and a year and a half of marriage, we sure had a lot more stuff htan we realized! After the move, we vowed to not move again for a very very long time.

Thanksgiving in SLC

Before we can update what we have been doing lately we should first at least try to go back and update some of the events we missed since the last update.

For Thanksgiving this year we joined my side of the Family in Salt Lake. We had a great feast over at my aunt and uncles house with about a dozen of us. It was such a nice spread and good to catch up with family. That night we played games at my sister Becky and Shane's house. Turns out the only game that they had was Pit. It had been a long time since anyone had played it. Turns out it is a really fun game when you have a lot of people around a big table. It also takes a long time to win when you have that many people, it was after midnight by the time we finished.

The next morning we braved the cold and the crowds to get a black Friday deal that we found advertised in the paper. They were selling certain gliders at Babies r Us for half off. We got the last one in stock that they had and felt very pleased with our purchase, even though we have not set it up yet.

On Saturday we watched the Utah vs BYU game. Not the best performances by either team, but a win is a win and we will definitely take that one. At least it was close which made it more dramatic. We did a bit more shopping around for home goods and gift stuff before we meet up with friends for diner. It was fun going out with some of my old roommates and reminisce on some of the good times we had. There was also lots of stuff going on in their lives that was exciting to hear about.

The drive back to Vegas on Sunday was an eventful one. With the big storm rolling in Sunday we knew to get an early start. We got off at 9am and had bad weather for most of the drive but it only added about 1-1/2 hrs more than usual. We will include some pictures of the snow. In the end we were very happy to return to the warmer weather in Las Vegas and very grateful for a fulfilling holiday with family and friends. It reminded us of how truly blessed we are.