There's no place like Home

This is our beautiful new home that we moved into three months ago. I up until recently had been reluctant to move out to the East Valley because if you know me at all, you know that I am a little uncomfortable with change.

We had been looking at houses off and on for years, but when the market took off and prices were soaring, we felt as though we were waving goodbye to our dreams of ever owning a home. Well, as we all know the market is now making that correction and things were returning to our price range. We had actually come to this neighborhood looking at the house directly across the street. I wasn't terribly impressed with that one, but our realtor suggested that since we were there why not look at this one. Well, I immediately fell in love with it. Later that night I told Lee, "What are we going to do? We need to pray about this and make sure we're doing the right thing before we put an offer in." So we all know the ending to that story.

Mark made fast friends with Colton and Conner, two brothers that live about four houses down and live in our ward. Here they are playing X-box in our living room. Notice that Berkeley, our Beagle boy, loves these boys too.

We are making new friends and getting settled. I still have about 5 boxes that are not completely empty. I guess it will get done eventually though.