It's Happening

The day has finally arrived. . . our house is on the market!

Last week Mike and I headed to Colorado Springs for a 4th interview with Colorado Engineering. When we returned we had an offer in our hand, and felt that we should take it. That led to two days of taking care of all the little details that we hadn't yet on our house, (after starting three months ago, with a six week break in between) and accepting the offer. Today our realtor came over, pictures were taken, papers were signed and now we have an MLS number. If you've been in our home before, you will see some big changes. However, it feels good. I've been feeling less need for Stuff and this is it!

In the middle of the blessing of getting a new job closer to our families out West there are major things happening where we live to the people we love here too. One thing after another has been happening to the sisters I visit teach, family friends, . . . hard, life-altering trials involving health. How can I leave my friends NOW??? It seems so wrong to leave in the middle of it all. And, yet, in my family, I am the wife and mother and must go where I am required and needed most. I just pray I can be useful while I'm still here. My grandpa wrote a poem about the givers and the takers. I often think about that choice, and hope when all is said and done I can be found on the giving side.

A Retrospective

If I was a really good blogger, I'd save these for one per day so there'd be a reason to come back, but you already know I'm not. I share these with you to catch you up on the going-ons of our family captured in two pages per event. I can't explain why I photograph some as two pages together, and some individually. . . no real plan there.
I use papers from lots of companies, but mostly Close To My Heart. I have no preference if a product is retired or current, and I love to mix and match companies within the same pages too. I haven't been too good about sharing throughout the year, so this is my retrospective of my year.




These photos weren't taken by me, but by her Stake YW President. They were on display at YW in Excellence, and I was grateful she sent me digital copies so I could cherish and remember them.










Most of these pages were created over the summer, with just a couple being in the last month. The other night MyGirl wanted to find pictures of her Halloween costumes from former years. How grateful I was to make that so easy and what a treasure my books were to me and her. I loved hearing her say, "Oh, I really loved that costume," or "That wasn't my favorite." For good or for bad, they are my family history.

Apparently October was Family History Month, whether in our stake or the whole church or something else, I don't know, but I saw a flyer for it, and I felt guilt free, and encouraged to make a couple more pages.