Our New Home

Well, we moved into our new home over the Thanksgiving holiday so that we would have a full four days to get completely unpacked and set up in our new house. I am STILL laughing at that idea, and I'm still not completely unpacked. We didn't count on a week with no running water OR toilets. It will suffice for me to say that we easily go through a 24 pack of TP each week, so I'll ljust let you do the math regarding the number of bathroom trips our crew makes. Well - we spent the week trekking every few hours to the local Wal-Mart (about 8 minutes away) to use the restroom, and to Grandma's (not nearly so often) to shower and do a few loads of laundry. After six days it was finally determined that the sewage backing up into our basement was due to tree roots that had grown into the sewer line. Once those were removed, things were finally flowing, thank goodness. It would have been very helpful had Mom remembered that she had purchased a porta-potty for such emergency occasions. My brain's a steel-trap, I tell you.

We are happily moved in and LOVE our new (older) place with the huge trees and beautiful brick fireplaces. We live in an established section of Bloomington, UT (St. George), which is quite different from where we lived on the other side of town. We love our new ward. Everyone is so kind and welcoming. There are a lot of older couples that live in our ward, but there are some families as well, though ours is certainly the biggest. We also have two former Utah Governors and a recently released General Authority living in our ward.