It's Christmas time...or it was 4 months ago

Our New Home

I'm finally posting pictures of our new home! I need to catch-up on a lot of posts, as you can see these are from Christmas.

Halloween 2009

The Condo

For the past two years we have lived in a condo in Sandy. It has been a really great situation, and I've always really liked living here. It's really close to shopping, restaurants and work. I had no idea, that when we signed our rental agreement (month to month) that we would end up living here for two years! It's really been the last few months that we realized a lot of things we don't love about living in the condo like taking the elevator ride with arms full of groceries or taking Cooper down four flights of stairs to do his thing or not having any STORAGE (hence the photo of one of the bathtubs filled to the brim with stuff)!

For the past year we have been hunting for a house, we weren't in a huge hurry so we were looking at short-sales. Those things are anything but short! We offered on several houses...but never ended up with the house.

The first week of June we put an offer on a short-sale house that barely came on the market, and we just last week we heard back from the bank and they accepted our offer (well after they countered the offer and we accepted). It's official! We will be closing on November 13th and saying bye to our first home of two years.

Haunted Bus Tours

Friday night we drove up to Ogden and met with our friends Josh and Stephanie to go on a Haunted Bus Tour of Ogden. We had no idea what to expect, and we were a little nervous at first but it ended up being really fun!

We crammed into this school bus with a ton of other people and drove around main street Ogden, while a story -telling tour guide would tell us all of the ghost stories that occurred in each of buildings we drove past.

We ended up at the cemetery where the guide told some really spooky stories.

Frightmares

We went to Lagoon Frightmares last week, apparently along with everyone else and their dog! It was so packed last Saturday! But we had such a fun time...I mean it's what fun is! Amy, Kevin, Cole, Dailey, Amber and Maddie all went too!

Even though it was packed Andy and I still got to ride all of our favorites including Wicked...twice! I love Frightmares, you aren't dying of heat like in mid-summer and usually there are less people (not this time) and there are all these crazy dressed-up employees walking around trying to scare you. Ok, that's not my favorite--this kid dressed as a zombie walked up behind me and scared the crap out of me...I may have turned around and hit the poor thing. I can't help it...it's my natural reaction.

Brazil

Andy and I are going to Brazil in about two weeks!! MonaVie (the company I work for) gave us the opportunity to travel to Brazil with The MORE Project. The MORE Project is a nonprofit orgranization that seeks to change lives and restore families living in poverty in Brazil. We will be spending most of the time in Rio de Janeiro helping families re-build homes and playing soccer with kids after school. I'm so excited...and maybe a little nervous.