Is it too Early…

To change my background to Halloween..? Because, I absolutely love this time of year!  Yesterday after work, I felt that “fall breeze” in the air and it made me really happy!!  Don’t get me wrong I love summer, but I love fall even more.  :}   The past few months have been full of changes and surprises…

First of all my dear sweet Maddy started Kindergarten on August 29^th.  I still can’t believe she is old enough to be in school!  The time has flown by way too fast, and I truly can’t stand that she is growing up SO fast!  We put her in Rolling Meadows Elementary in West Valley, near her daycare.  Which funny enough is the same school I went to!  She threw quite the fit that she wasn’t going to Hunter Elementary in our neighborhood, but once she found out it was MY school, and that Aunt Karen worked there… she was pretty happy!   We got her in Mrs Carnley’s class, who I heard from several sources was the best one there.  I must agree with them! She has been so good with Maddy, and it’s a small class so she is getting the attention and help she needs.   I am so proud of my Maddy girl and all that she has accomplished so far in her short 5 years.   I love you sweetie!

Secondly, drum roll please!!....  We have sold our house!! FINALLY after 3 ½ years of waiting, praying, fasting, waiting some more, lots of emotions and tears, the right Family has come.   We found out on Saturday August 20^th  that the offer we had out on a house in Lehi, was finally approved.  We put an offer on this house back in March of this year!  I was completely okay with that because our house hadn’t sold yet, and it was “buying” us time when we hadn’t heard anything.   We had a lot of people looking at our home, and about 5 offers came through since we put it back up on the market in March.   Each offer we just didn’t feel right about, and there were some pretty sketchy people!    Sam and I had changed our prayers instead of saying: “Please let our house sell” to “Please send the right family to replace us.”  Sam and I really felt like we wanted a good LDS Family to replace us, and that is what we found!  When we got the news they wanted us to close on August 31^st on the Lehi house, I admit, I panicked!   Fear, and our “human nature” set in.  Sam called it my “freak out session” but I wouldn’t say it was THAT drastic..   Anyway,  we resorted to putting it up for rent.  Not our favorite thing to do, BUT we definitely loved the Lehi house, and truly felt this is where we were supposed to be so we didn’t want to give up yet.   After a week of no calls, we decided to lower the price of rent.   Can I just say there are some CREEPY people out there?    I made one last ditch effort of posting on FB about our new rent.. and wa-la!  Our good friends in the ward referred a family of 5 to us.  We couldn’t be more happy!   I have been praying all along that if this is the right house, that it will all work out.. and it has so far!   We are set to close on September 30^th {we asked for an extension from the original August 31^st date}  Here are a few pictures of it: 

Lastly,  I have been a Hunter’s Widow the past week… yeah this happens every September and October.   Sam has been Elk hunting with my Dad and Cousin Brian up by Flaming George/Vernal area.  We went camping last weekend, then it’s been Me and Maddy having fun!  It will be interesting to see if we can keep our routine up when Sam gets home!