A Big Move

Doug Christensen, Shawn's friend in our ward, started talking to me and Shawn about possibly buying an older home that had come up for sale in the ward boundaries. The older home would have to be torn down, but it was on a ¾ acre lot that was very nice. Shawn and I had toyed around with the idea of moving, but we always figured when/if we moved, we would move south so we could be closer to our offices in Salt Lake. We really like the house and area we are in right now. Anyway, we started looking at houses in South Ogden, one thing led to another, and suddenly we made an offer on a house in South Ogden that we both really liked! It was a whirlwind and so crazy, because Shawn and I have a hard time agreeing on houses that we like. He really likes the one level, rambler style with a basement, and he doesn't mind older homes. I tend to like homes with high ceilings that are newly built. But when we saw this house in South Ogden, we both really liked it and agreed on it. It is in a wonderful location, and we are so excited to move. We are waiting to move until we return from our Disney trip. The kids have mixed feelings about moving. They really liked the house we bought, but they are a little sad about leaving their friends and school. I should probably be a lot more nervous about the move than I am, if not for anything, because of the fact we haven't even sold the house that we are in yet! But for some reason, I feel really good about it. I think if we are going to move, we've got to do it now before the kids get any older. I think the older they get, the harder it will be for them to leave. I hardly remember moving to North Ogden from Layton when I was in second grade. The only thing I remember was that my old teacher, Mrs. Condra, would let me move to the front of the class when I couldn't see the board. When I tried that with my new teacher, Mrs. Coleman, she yelled at me and I was really embarrassed! Other than that, nothing traumatic happened!

Pics of our North Ogden house {at its cleanest!!} ...sniff sniff...

Primary Program

Gotta love the time of year when the primary program rolls around! Grammy, Grandpa Ted, Grandma April, and Grandma Debbie all came to see the kids in the program. This year, the theme was on reading the scriptures. The kids had filled out a piece of paper each week they read their scriptures, and then they hooked all of the papers together in a chain. The chain wrapped around the entire chapel! It was so cute. Both Chance and Hannah did a great job on their parts. Of course, Chance lost his piece of paper with his part on it so I can't post it here, but I wanted to post Hannah's. She had given this part as a talk earlier in the year. It was a fairly long part, so she had to get up with older kids instead of her own class. She had the whole thing memorized and did such a nice job! Chance gave his part very last and finished the program beautifully.

School Awards
Chance and Hannah both received an award from the school last week. Chance's teacher mentioned that when Chance was finished with his work, his nose was somewhere in a book. That reminded me of myself at that age! Hannah's teacher described her as a "model student." No bigger compliment than that one! I was so proud of both of them. Hannah and I were over at Grandma Debbie's and Grandpa Brad's, and I told them that Hannah got an award for being a "model student." My dad replied, "That deserves some money." He took out his wallet and gave Hannah a $5.00 bill, which Hannah very shyly accepted. That might not seem like too big of a deal, but I was immediately taken back in time to my Grandpa Dale - whenever he found out about something good we had done in school, he'd whip out his wallet and give us a dollar. Or, he'd take us in his room and let us pick out some quarters. We thought that was so awesome!! What a great memory.

Short and Sweet summary of Halloween

My spider entry for the neighborhood pumpkin contest was...well...average.

And if it wasn't bad enough to only take THIRD place, I had to tie for third with CHANCE who made this hideous BYU pumpkin!!! haha It did make me feel a teeny bit better that our neighbors who won (taking first, second, and tying for third) made it their goal this year to "beat Natalie." Ha ha ha, gotta love it.

Hannah didn't enter hers. This was our first year of carving. She looked really cute with a candle inside! (the pumpkin, not Hannah!)

Chance was a "scary" football player this year. ooooooohhhhhhhh

Hannah was a genie. Even though everyone kept calling her a gypsy!

Westaboy was a spider! It was cute when he crawled, it really looked like he was using all 8 legs! This was Chance's old costume, I can't believe I kept it this long!

Lovin' this fall weather!! Wish it could last forever!!