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Busy busy busy


Timeline:

Tuesday 12/18: Got a job offer with Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment. We put our house up for sale.

Wednesday 12/19: Sarah and Jackson fly to AZ for a friends wedding and Christmas. I quit my current job, which, due to holidays and timing, means I’m unemployed until January 7th. Sarah also went to see a home in Arizona near her sister and aunt. The home isn’t even on the market yet.

Thursday 12/20: Sarah looks at 8 other homes with a realtor including this one which we think is great. Meanwhile, I prep our home to be shown to our first buyer.

Friday 12/21: I fly to AZ for Christmas. First potential buyer views our home.

Saturday 12/22: Together we visit several more homes including Sarah’s top two above.

Sunday 12/23: We go to Sacrament Meeting at the ward of one of the homes we liked. The top two homes are in the same stake and meet in the same building.

Monday – Christmas Eve Festivities
Tuesday – Christmas and Fly back to Utah.
Wednesday – Today we are ready to make an offer on the first house Sarah saw. We keep you posted as the home buying process progresses.

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Away In a Manger

Friday was our ward Christmas dinner that we were in charge of. It went okay except for a few important details that fell through. The people we put in charge of drinks didn’t bring drinks, the grocery store we had cater gave us about half the corn and potatoes they quoted us and the guy that was going to setup a photo studio for family pictures showed up 30 minutes into the dinner rather than 1 hr before. Needless to say, we were running around like crazy at the dinner trying to make it work. The best part was the Nativity. Jackson played a shepherd.

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Let It Snow!

Jackson helped me shovel the driveway Saturday morning when we woke up to 4 inches of snow. By the end of the day there was 6-8 inches on the ground. This week we’re going to build a hill in our backyard for Jackson to sled on.

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New Addition

Our family is expanding – in more ways than one. We announced to family this week that we’re expecting our second baby in March 2008! Sarah has been really tired lately and pretty sick as well. She is hanging in there though. It doesn’t make things easier now that Jackson has started having his own opinions is still working on what NO means. He still thinks it means – “Do that again, please.” He’s a cute little boy and very pleasant most of the time but, when he wants to be, he can be a handful.

We also just switched him from the crib to a toddler bed and he has been doing really well. Although he used to sleep in until 8am occasionally but now he wakes up before 6am no matter what time we put him down. I sure hope he grows out of this sleep schedule soon. With all my late nights working on thintopia and bookwormed I’m running low on energy.

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Temple Square



This weekend we met up with the Woods and Kings in Salt Lake City and Saturday we visited a few of the sites at temple square. Although we’ve lived in the Salt Lake valley for almost 18 months this was our first trip as a family there. We had fun at the visitor’s center, toured the conference center and had lunch at the Lion House Pantry. After Jackson’s nap we played in the pool at the hotel and had book club where we discussed our reading of Bruce R. McConkie’s biography.

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