January 2020

January came quickly for us.  With a house in St. George under contract we began planning for the move.  We knew that this month would be spent prepping our house, starting to pack, and getting ready to list the house for sale.  In between all of that here's what our January looked like...

We kicked off the New Year with a buffet, games, and we even made it until midnight for a quick celebration!

 Addie was really excited to have an interview with her dad to get her Temple recommend. We are also excited to be studying the Book of Mormon this year. 

Playing around...

 Enjoying some pizza...

Endured some sickness...

Tess' fish, Carla, unfortunately died.  She was so sad.  

 More volunteering in Tess' class...

 Fixed some things to prepare for the changes that a move would bring...

Took some time to play at Kangaroo Zoo...

 Enjoyed some snuggle time...

We just love hearing her sing "Popcorn Popping"...

Addie was so excited to begin temple work.  She made a goal to attend the temple every week until we moved.  It was such an amazing experience to witness Addie doing such an important work. 

 This girl definitely keeps us on our toes...

Addie even recruited some of her friends to attend the temple with her.  And of course we had to stop for ice cream after...

Addie had a Winter Concert with COPA where she performed a Hairspray mashup with her class...

 We love visiting with Grandma Ruth.  She is such a sweet, happy, loving person and we enjoy being around her.  

 Finding joy in the little things...

After a month's worth of work and packing, our last house prep was to have the carpets cleaned.  We put our house on the market the next day and got bombarded with showings.  We were thrilled with the huge response but did not expect things to move so quickly.  

One of Addie's school projects was to create a book report float on Romeo and Juliet.  It turned out so cute...

Playtime at the museum...

 Lil cutie...

As January ended a new chapter was beginning for our family.  Within 4 days we had received an offer on our house.  I had been praying that the family who needed this home/ward/neighborhood would find our home.  On a day when the schools closed down because of a snow storm and Devin decided to work from home because of it, a guy showed up on our doorstep asking if he could come in to see the house.  He said he had flown in from out of town and was leaving again in just a couple of hours.  Had Devin not been home, I never would have let him in.  We walked him through the house and began talking with him.  Turns out he lived in California just a town away from where we lived.  His family was even in the ward that we were moved to when the boundaries changed. They were switched too with the boundary change so we never actually met.  We found out his wife's name was Colette and they also had 4 kids.  He flew home and they put an offer on the house that night. Because they knew that our house in St. George wouldn't be finished until the end of March they agreed to close on March 30.  Although we had initially hoped to let the girls finish out the school year we decided that with how everything was falling into place that we would have faith that this is how it was all supposed to work out and that we should just move at the end of March.  We have had lots of emotions, stress, conversations, plans, changed plans, and ups and downs.  We have felt both excitement and sadness. Ready and not ready.  But now it was all becoming very real and so our moving preparations began..