Family Photos

We had some family photos taken last month, but its taken me a while to get them up- sorry to anyone who was waiting!  Originally we were going to get them taken up on Cedar Mountain, but the on the weekend we'd scheduled them, the leaves hadn't changed colors too much, so we went down to St. George where our photographer was and had them taken there instead.  Anna (Prince) Williams from Panaca did them, and overall I think they turned out great!  She's just getting started with her photography, but I'd recommend her to anyone!

I will say, it was quite the chore getting Sadie to cooperate for photos- most of the time she was trying to get out of my lap or otherwise run away and play.  But Anna still captured some really good moments with her and all of us together :)

She took over 400 photos, and obviously I couldn't post all of them here ;)  So here are just a few of my favorites.  She did some with us as a family, some with just Brian and I, and some with just Sadie.  

Here are my top four family photos

Sadie was trying to squirm out of my lap in the one above- can you tell, haha!

These next four are just of Sadie.  I think this first one turned out really cool!

She looks like a little model in this one ;)

Doing the "Itsy-bitsy Spider"

These next two are (obviously) just Brian and I- these were a lot easier to take than the ones with Sadie :)

And finally, these ones just made me laugh, so I wanted to include them

LOL, Sadie looks so bored...

Our kid can multi-task

future geologist- she looks so studious :)

The New Place!

Today we did our inspection on the townhome we're buying. Because its new, we got to mark any "imperfections" we saw and they'll fix them before we move in, so thats why you see blue tape on the walls in the kitchen. It was so fun to see the home again and to think that in less than a month, we'll be moving in! I went a little picture crazy, so I just posted the ones I thought showed the house the best. Enjoy!

I LOVE the kitchen. I think its absolutely beautiful! They'll be installing a black fridge before we move in, so that will take up the space Brian's standing in.

You can't see it, but we've got a dishwasher too, thank goodness- I'm so spoiled, I couldn't live without one of those!


Here's the living room




This is the hall upstairs. The door on the left is a linen closet, then the two doors on the end are bedrooms. On the right is the bathroom.


This is the upstairs bathroom. All of them have the same fixtures, which we think are pretty nice :)


This is the master bedroom. We're not sure what we'll use the cubbyhole for, since we don't want a t.v. in the bedroom, but we'll think of something. The closet is nice and big too :)



We're seriously so so so so so so SO SO SO SO excited to finally have a place of our own! I can't wait!

Soon-to-be HOMEOWNERS!!!!

For a few months we've been thinking "gosh, house prices have fallen a ton, we should think about buying a house." So about a month ago I went to a broker and got all our financing and everything.....and then we didn't do anything. Well, a couple of weeks ago our broker called to tell us interest rates had dropped a whole percentage from the time I'd gone in and so we decided to call a real estate agent and start looking at homes. We put an offer on one we really wanted last week, but sadly, someone else got it. Then this week our realtor showed us some really nice townhomes. Now, we'd been pretty anti-townhome before seeing these, but thought "what the heck" so I went and looked at a few in this new subdivision and WOW!!! Granite countertops, oil-rubbed bronze fixtures, double the required soundproofing between houses!!!! I was pretty much sold as soon as I walked through them. We showed Brian the next day, took a night to think it over and made an offer yesterday morning which was accepted TODAY!!!!

Next week we're going through to do our inspection and I'll take pictures then to post. We're really so excited- finally homeowners!!!! The only thing that sucks is interest rates went back up while we were looking, but we can lock in the rate any time before we finalize everything at the end of this month, so hopefully they'll come down in the next couple of weeks.

Anyway, I just wanted to share the good news! I can't wait to have some pictures to post- YAY!!!!!!!!!