Home Sweet Home...at last

So, we finally found a house and closed just a few weeks ago. The movers delivered all our stuff from Boise last week, and now we have the challenge of unpacking...not the most exciting thing to do, but it is a great feeling to have our things back.

We are so happy to be in a home that doesn't REQUIRE anything! We almost don't know what to do with ourselves. Seems like the past two years, we have been in remodel mode and now we can just have fun and make this house ours! Don't get me wrong, there are things that need to be done, but it's been a long time since we have had a fully functioning bathroom - and it feels good :)

We were able to get a few zucchini's and some cantaloupe out of the garden and there is a cherry tomato plant near the porch.

As hard as it is to leave our good friends we have made in Boise, I think we will really like Stansbury Park...We allready feel like we are home.

FIRE!!!

Ever been woken up in the middle of the night to the screeching of a fire alarm? Annoying isn't it...well, once you discover that it's not due to the house burning down that is.
This week's lesson in life is: smoke detectors have a shelf life of 5 years. And apparently Denise and Todd's smoke detectors are 5 years old.

Here's what happened - We were all asleep one night when we woke up to the fire alarm going off. Once we all got up and determined everything was OK, we thought that it could have been triggered by the wild fires that were burning near Grantsville and went back to bed. About an hour or so later, we were awoken again from the fire alarm...this happened a couple more times through the night.

The next day Denise went and bought all new batteries, because someone told her that if the batteries are dying that it might go off and not chirp like it typically does. So, she changed all the batteries and it was hours before we heard anything...then as it got later and closer to us going to bed, they sounded again!

So, we decided to take them all down (because once the "bad" one went off they were triggering each other off) line them up and wait. Sure enough! We were able to find the culprit of our lost sleep and get some rest.

Might seem silly to write about - but we all found it pretty humorous at the time - or maybe it was the lack of sleep?

The Great "Smelly" Salt Lake

I had never "been" to the actual Salt Lake, so we decided to take a detour on the way home one day and pulled off at the Great Salt Lake State Marina.

As much as it's neat that we have this huge body of water so close to us - it was really stinky and there were a lot of bugs.

I liked the sail boats in the marina though.

Dinner in the Mountains

Dispite the look on her face - Avery really did have fun!


Avery and her "Favorite Aunt" Denise (Aren't her shoes too cute?!)



Me, Sid and Avery - It was so beautiful and the weather was really nice. The picnic area that we claimed had a little stream and bridge leading to the main road. It was so quiet and peaceful, and dinner was great!


Todd and Sid collecting fuel for their fire. (Bella in the background)

California or Bust!

Avery took her first trip to California when she was only 3 months old! She was pretty fussy most of the time. Poor baby.
The Boys did really well with her and tried as much as they could to make her happy. Here are a few pics from our beach trip.


Left:Denny and Cameron at Balboa with Avery.

Bottom: We were bored the first night we got to the beach - so we got a little crazy with the plastic cereal bowls...Poor Avery



We Decided to take the Ferry Boat over to Balboa Island to shop...Avery slept most of the time.










Avery and I on the sand...

Family in CA

I got to visit with all the family while we were in Cali. And got to meet Leah (Stacy's youngest) and Isabella (Anthony's first).