Our New Home

OK, so we finally got a chance to snap a few shots of our new home. We're not quite done decorating...the office is filled with boxes and the walls in Chloe's room are bare, but we're getting there. We'll hopefully have a few pictures of the outside soon...the sprinklers were just installed and the grass should be going in any day now.

Anyways, the place is 1,615 square feet and has three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms. We've been very pleased with everything so far. Thanks again to everyone who helped us move in.

Family Home Evening

For FHE tonight, we decided to have a picnic dinner at a local park. The weather has finally turned nice and we were not about to pass up a night like tonight by sitting inside.
After dinner, we walked around and played at the park. Chloe is such a little explorer. She wants to go everywhere...especially where she knows she is not supposed to go. Her defiant personality has started showing a lot more lately and I think we are going to have our hands full when she gets older.

April Showers....

We all know the saying "April showers bring May flowers" well, I don't think they were talking about snow showers. The only thing this type of shower will bring in May is frozen flowers. This picture is from our front door and it is still snowing. Ahhh... don't you just love Utah weather, especially when you are on spring break!

However, on a positive note, Chloe has learned a new word. She kept looking out the window and pointing at the snow, so I would tell her "thats snow." Well, when she woke up from her nap earlier she pointed out the window and said "no" as in "snow." She is a quick learner.

Happy Easter

This year we celebrated Easter on two days. On Saturday we went over to my mom's house for an egg hunt with Chloe's cousin Kadence. It was so fun to see how excited Chloe got when she found the candy. All she wanted to do was hold as many pieces in her hands as she possibly could. When I could convince her to put the candy in her basket so she could get more, she would put them in, pick up the new piece, and then promptly pick up all the rest of her candy.

Chloe also learned how to open up the candy. I turned away for a second and the next thing I know she has a chocolate bunny in her hand. This girl loves chocolate- she must be related to her mother!

After the egg hunt we went outside to play. Kadence has a toy mustang and Chloe had a ball watching Kadence drive it around. She kept chasing after it and laughing. We tried to put her in but she wanted nothing to do with it.

Saturday evening, Aaron's parents came over to see Chloe for Easter, but we were having so much fun that we forgot to take pictures. They gave Chloe some delicious suckers and it was her first taste of one. At first she tried to bite it but then she got the hang of it and loved it.

On Sunday we had our own egg hunt at home and Chloe did a much better job this time around. We had all the candy in plastic eggs so she didn't realize what was in them. Once she had put them all in her basket, I opened one up to show her and that was the end of the egg hunt. She tried to open up as many as she could and stuff the candy in her mouth.

We spent the rest of the day at my mom's house having dinner and playing games. It was a wonderful Easter and I am so glad to have my family close so that I can spend time with them. I am also so grateful for the true meaning of Easter and for Christ's resurrection.

We're In

Well, after a messy, rainy night we're all moved into our new place! Now comes the fun part of unpacking and organizing. I had the camera out all ready to take pictures of the madness but in all the madness I forgot. I will post some pictures of the new place once we get settled. A huge thanks to all who helped (you know who you are) and have a happy General Conference weekend!

Packing

We finally decided that is was time to start packing since we are moving in less than two weeks...if everything works out; the sale of our condo is going anything but smoothly. I had been dreading the thought of packing because I figured Chloe would want to constantly take everything out of the boxes we had just put in, but to our surprise, she was great. She had so much fun climbing on the boxes and playing with the packing supplies. Here are some fun pictures of her.

Contracts are signed...

We have signed a purchase contract for our new place and are now just waiting for both our financing and that of our buyer to come through! The contracts have a closing deadline of March 31, so things are moving right along.

Our new place isn't quite finished yet (no flooring, cabinets, counter tops, sinks, toilets, light fixtures, light switches or door knobs), but we've been assured that this can all get done in just a few short weeks...in fact, we found out today that they began laying the tile yesterday! We we're actually really excited that none of the above things were done yet, because that meant we could pick all the options we wanted.

Well, that was easy...

So, after a whopping four days, we have signed a purchase contract with a buyer for our condo! We certainly weren't thinking things would happen this fast, but beggars can't be choosers. Now all we have to do is, oh you know, find a place to live, get a loan and move five years worth of unchecked accumulation of everything and anything! I think we're about as scared as we are excited.

Movin' on up...hopefully

Well, this is an exciting post for us...we have decided to *try* and sell our condo. We recently found a new town home community not far from where we currently live that we have fallen in love with, and with prices and mortgage rates as low as they are, we would hate to miss out on the opportunity to "move on up." Of course, first we have to sell our condo, so if any of you know anyone looking for a beautiful, clean and quality built condominium, send them our way!

Valentine's Day

Five years ago Valentine's Day, Aaron and I got engaged. I had been hoping for a ring for a while and Aaron kept telling me not to expect anything on Valentine's Day, so I was very excited when he took my blindfold off to a candlelit house with rose pedals all over.

Aaron had a delicious dinner ready and beautiful music playing in the background. After dinner, he gave me a small white box filled with keys and told me that if I could find the key that opened another box, a bigger, beautiful, wooden box (that I later found out Aaron made) I could have whatever was inside. I found the right key and inside the box was my engagement ring slid up on the stems of two roses (one red and one yellow--the colors I had told Aaron I wanted our wedding to be). Aaron then got down on one knee and the rest is history. It was the best decision of my life and I am so grateful to have Aaron as my husband.

Since that Valentine's Day, we have decided that we would have a pretty low key day. This year we went out to lunch and then bought ourselves new cell phones. Chloe loves dogs so when Aaron found this stuffed dog he knew it was the perfect gift to get Chloe. As you can see from the picture, she did love it and has dragged it (and the one that Grandma Searle gave her) around everyday since!