Changes

I have much to catch up on still, but I have two posts I have to do first.

First, after nearly 15 years in our home we are moving!  When we built this home, we really thought we would only be here 3-5 years.  I still remember the day I realized I wanted to move.... December 26, 2001.  OK it was a actually a few weeks after that.  On December 26th of that year, Corry tore his ACL.  After his surgery a few weeks later, I knew I didn't want to ever go through that in a split level house again!

Also, I knew the longer we stayed the harder it would be to go.  But it wasn't right.  The next time I wanted to move was early January of 2005.  I walked down the stairs and my knees hurt.  Didn't think much of it until it became a frequent thing.  No more stairs!  But moving was not to be again.

About 2 years later, after dear friends moved away, again I felt it was time.  It wasn't.  Then the economy crashed and financially things were tough.  I was so grateful we hadn't moved!  After that, we had the foster boys and our house was a bit cramped.  We didn't keep them and we didn't need to move.  I was content to stay.  But, this is still not a house I can stay in long term.  As it is, there are days I come home and crawl up the stairs into the bathtub to soak my not as young body!

Corry has not been on board with moving, but after we exhausted the options in our own neighborhood, we found a development a few blocks away with a floor plan we love.  Corry is not only on board, but he is spearheading this venture.  A vast shift in dynamics.  Plus I think he is loving tweaking the floor plan to make it our own!

Although this has been something I have wanted for 11 years, now we are 15 years vested in our neighborhood and it is going to be hard to go.  My next door neighbors are the best I could ask for.  Telling them was the hardest thing to do.  I am going from the greatest neighbors to a new development where right now I don't have any neighbors.

Overall I am excited, with tears in my eyes.  I am excited for my lot, with a third acre to garden and play in.  I am so excited for a rambler with a basement.  I am excited to only be a few blocks from those I love, although living in Utah I am not only in a different ward (church congregation) but I am in a new stake (a grouping of wards).  I am so excited for a big family room.  If any of you have ever been to my parents home, you know of their fantastic family room.  I have always dreamed of having that for family and friends to hang out.  I am excited for main floor living with a mud room and a laundry room on the main floor.

So here's to this new adventure.  Here is to kids Alli's age.  Here is to a place for our kids to always come home to, bringing friends and future families of their own.  Here's to making a new house a home!