After six years living in our home in Riverton we decided it was time to move. We had been discussing the idea for years. Even while we were selling our house we were still wavering back and forth. "Do we stay or do we go now . . ." became the theme of our house. One day the for sale sign was up, the next day the sign was down. We felt that both decisions were good.
The night before we sold our house we decided that for sure we were going to stay. The kids went out the next morning and took out the sign for the last time. An hour later we got a call from a realtor with someone who wanted to make us an offer. I told them "Sorry, we decided not to sell." I went and told Aaron about the call and we both felt like maybe we should actually take the offer. So, we called the agent back and after some negotiations, we accepted their offer. We had three weeks to move. Yikes! We ended up moving out on my birthday. Probably one of the worst birthday's I've ever had, but who really cares.
We decided to build a new house up by our kids school. We have loved this neighborhood for years. We have been going through their model homes, wanting to build, but not being able to afford it. Since the market has tanked, we can finally afford to live here. We went through various ideas, trying to design our own floor plan and have it custom built, to moving into an existing home. We finally settled on having Hardrock Homes build us one of their plans that we changed a little. We added a bedroom and a family room to the upstairs so that each of our kids could have their own room. One of the things we wanted most was for all the bedrooms to be on the same level. It is hard to find a plan with 5 bedrooms up, so we made our own. The builders love how this plan turned our and are marketing the plan as "The Ashby." They want to build it as their Parade of Homes home next year.
After moving out of our house we moved into my parent's house for a month. Because of health concerns for my dad, and a need to be closer to Herriman, we moved into an apartment behind Herriman High School. We were there for about two and a half months. (Longest two and a half months of my life!) Apartments are not designed to have four small kids living in it. I feel pretty bad for the people below it. I think they were celebrating as much as we were when we moved out. It was much better living closer once school started. I can't imagine commuting back and forth from Lehi every day, several times a day. It was bad enough 10 minutes from the apartment. We love the house and are relieved to finally be in it.
Here are some pictures we took throughout the process of building. I need to go through and take some pictures now that we are all moved in.
They also got to play the game where you press flour into a cup, turn it upside down and take the cup off, place a dime on top. The kids take turns cutting away at the flour. The person that makes the tower fall has to retrieve the dime with out using their hands. Emma was a good sport and went for it.
They made cinnamon rolls, the girls loved being able to roll out their own dough, put the butter and cinnamon on it, roll it up and use string to cut it into slices. Each girl took home at least a dozen rolls.
Whitney wanted to have a Hawaiian birthday party. We made flower lei's, bracelets, had smoothies and cupcakes, hula hoop contest. Since we were still in our apartment, we had our friend reserve the clubhouse by our new house for us so that we had somewhere to hold the party. 
