We went on a fun family outing up the canyon to a place called Cascade Springs.  The canyon this time of year was beautiful and green…surprising since it is normally brown.  We watched the clouds roll in and hoped that it wouldn’t rain too much on us.  The kids loved walking on the boardwalks around the springs, seeing the fish, checking out the flowers and finding great places to explore.  We ate our “picnic” at the top of the mountain overlooking Deer Creek.  I love my beautiful children and the beauty of the world around me that God created for me to enjoy!! 

So it has been a month since I have been on here because life got shaken up and dumped upside down for us!  We are MOVING!  I never thought I would be saying this, but we are!  To Pleasant Grove (Just one town over–8 minutes from our current home) in a month!  This is our new house:

This is the story of how it came to be…

Right after Isabelle was born just over 9 months ago, Chris had this itch to move.  I resisted, because I LOVE my neighborhood and our ward at church. He said he was feeling claustrophobic and that there was no room for our kids to grow in our current 1900 sq. ft. house.  I resisted more and we had several “discussions” aka. arguments over this, so about October when our neighbors put their house on the market we started searching the MLS sites and looking at houses.  It consumed our nights after the kids went to bed.  In January I told him that we had looked enough and that we needed to start walking through houses so we could see what we like and didn’t like.  We started out with 1 or 2 a week for the first while and then it increased to 4-5 a week.  We walked through a lot of beautiful houses, but nothing seemed like the perfect one.  We walked through one in the neighborhood that our new home is in that backed the 5 acre neighborhood park and loved the neighborhood, but not the home.  The realtor that was listing it said that another one a few doors up as going on the market Monday, but they weren’t ready to show it that weekend, so we scheduled an appointment for Monday morning and walked through it and loved it.  It had everything we had listed on our “want list” except a 3rd car garage (that Chris wanted).  We made an offer that afternoon and by Tuesday morning, April 26th, they had accepted our offer.   That night I had a good cry about leaving all the people I love and the memories we’ve made in our home for the past 10 1/2 years and have been crying on and off for the past month until we closed yesterday!  I can’t believe we are moving in a month!  I can’t believe how everything worked out so timely!  I can’t believe we are finishing the “American Fork Chapter” in our book of life and moving to Pleasant Grove!  Crazy how life works out!  I tell people it is a bittersweet thing for me…I DO NOT like change and this is a challenge for me, but I know we will make new friends and keep in contact with the amazing friends we have made over the past decade!  Here’s to a new chapter beginning in The Powell’s Book of Life!