Fly Fishing Family: What have we been doing?

I am so beyond behind in my posting that it's embarrassing! So, what have we been doing?

Well, soccer finished up. Corban finally decided to try playing goalie. He did a really great job, but after a few saves he decided that it wasn't for him. He came back onto the field and scored the winning goal for his team.

He had a great season with a great coach and team.

Quincy's last game was freezing cold! It had snowed earlier in the week and was almost dark (hence the fuzzy picture) when the game was finally over. The team had a lot of fun.

Mostly the last month has been dealing with this. . .

We sold our house and moved from Grantsville into Bump's parents basement apartment. Why, you ask? I am asking myself that same question almost daily. We felt like it is what we were supposed to do and when everything kept pointing us in that direction we realized that if we didn't follow those promptings we would regret it. So, here we are.

The problem with moving from a large house into a 2 bedroom apartment that is already full of STUFF is. . . well there are a lot of problems with that. We really downsized our stuff. We sold most of our furniture and got rid of most of our stuff. In a lot of ways it was cleansing and if the apartment would have been empty things would have been a piece of cake, relatively speaking. But, as you can see from the above picture of the kitchen (none of the things showing are ours. this is really what it looked like when we moved in) it was not easy. Our things stayed in boxes for a long time while we cleaned out and got rid of lots of things. I took 3 loads to the dump, 2 of those loads were 50 year old food storage that had mostly spoiled. The other load was product samples that Bump's dad used to formulate his recipes.

After quite a bit of moving, trying to talk Bump's parents into getting rid of a few things, then getting them another storage unit instead and almost going crazy, we finally found a place for everything and have moved in.

After moving out all of the food storage from under the stairs, I actually have a decent pantry!

I should have cleaned it up before I took the picture of the kitchen, but it's way better than it was when we first got here!

And the family room and office area all cleaned up. No more boxes!

The kids are all sharing a room and love it! They hated being separated at night, so sharing a room has been a real treat for them. We still have some things to organize better in their room, but things are good. The kids love the neighborhood. They have already made great friends and are really liking their new school (which is the same school that I went to growing up - kind of fun). The class sizes are nice and small and they get a lot of neat perks with it being a Title 1 school. I like that they can walk to and from school safely.

The cat is feeling comfortable and likes her new home, but Grandma and Grandpa aren't too thrilled to have her here and she's been mostly outside. She loves to hang out on Bump's shoulder whenever she can get up there.

About a week before we moved Bump's cousin Jeff and his family bought the house right across the street from our new house. They have 2 little girls that our kids love to play with. "New Cousins"

My brother Jared gave Bump and I his BYU football tickets for one Saturday. It was a nice break for both of us to get away and have some time alone after the chaos of moving. They are great seats and BYU won, which is always good!

Bump lost his voice yelling so loud!

In October I got to go with Gabby on a field trip. We went to the landfill and garbage incinerator in Layton and then to the Weber Basin water district. It was fun to hang out with Gabby and I thought it was pretty interesting too.

Another bonus with moving is that we are much closer to cousins! The kids have been able to play every week with their cousins and we have been able to help family with yard projects. That's always fun! Corb and Peter had some awesome tunnels and roads in the sand box for their cars.