I started this post weeks ago and sooo much has happened since! Our house is finally under contract after almost a month on the market. We packed up, cleaned everything, moved out, and drove thousands of miles across the country (with much help from my mom!!) After two full days of driving we moved straight into a townhome in Syracuse and we've been here now for about three weeks. It's been a fun, busy, but hard time. It feels so good to be back but the transition has not been easy on the kids. They haven't been sleeping great and are acting out more than normal. Emmett tells me daily he wants to go to his "old house". They miss their friends and going to the gym daycare everyday. Jason went back into work for the first time since Brielle was born. He also had kidney stones for the first time ever which was so so so painful for him and scary for me! Because of that we spent our Labor Day in the hospital and ended up missing Callum's first birthday party. That's just our luck!!
I was really hoping I'd fall in love with the area we're in because it's so close to Jason's job, but that's not been the case. I don't like the whole living an hour away from everything and everyone, especially during the day when it's just me and the kids. Soooo we will likely be looking elsewhere for a house. We actually put an offer in for a house in Saratoga Springs today. It took a lot of convincing because that's an hour commute for Jason, but I have high hopes that he'll be working from home part-time or be able to transfer to the Northrop Grumman office in Magna eventually. I'll keep praying! But I truly, truly think our daily life (and my sanity) will be better off living somewhere we actually want to live that's closer to the people we want to be around. If they accept our offer we'd live two minutes away from Britta, five minutes from my parents and Mauri, twenty minutes from Hailey, Karlie, Ryan, Mel and about thirty minutes from Shilo. To me it's a no brainer!
I feel like I could share so much more about life in Utah so far... like Britta's baby sprinkle, the Biddall's reuniting, City Creek with Sydney, car shopping, house walk-throughs, Tierra and Cort visiting, Reese being born!!!! But I need to cut myself off somewhere or this will sit in my drafts forever. I'll update more on some of that later, but let's finish what I started and take it back to the 4th of July! This was our last holiday in Alabama so we decided to drag out the celebration haha. We spent the afternoon of July 3rd swimming with friends, eating pizza, hanging at the Collins, and going to a firework show. On the 4th we dressed festive, took pictures, went back to the Collins house for a yummy bbq, sprinklers, and street fireworks. It was a good time. We're all really going to miss holidays with the Alabama fram!
It seems so weird that we were there for the 4th a year ago... so long ago! Cutest pictures! ♥
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