In our effort to live in every city in Utah County, we will be relocating to Pleasant Grove sometime in January. *GASP* Did I just say that?

This decision was a really hard one for Jeffy and me. Really hard. We’ve been thinking about moving for over a year now, but not very seriously. When Jeff went back to the office in January and wasn’t working from home anymore, I think that’s when our desire to be closer got stronger. We would look at houses every now and then, but we never really liked any of them. There was always something wrong, or something that we didn’t like about each house, so we took that as to mean it wasn’t the right time to move for us. So, we laid off of the house looking for awhile.

Then a couple of weeks ago, the desire to move came back. We went out one Friday and looked at about 8 houses and among those 8 was a house we fell in love with. The next day after looking at the house, I was picturing our family there and the kids rooms and what they would look like, and where we would put all of our stuff, and by the end of the day (and after much praying) we just knew we needed to put an offer in. We got everything ready with the real estate guy Sunday night so that we could turn our offer in first thing Monday morning. The lady counter-offered our offer and we accepted that and bang! The house was ours!

I know that everyone says this and it sounds so cliche, but this really was a hard decision for us to come to. We have loved living in Eagle Mountain. It’s been a place of growth for both of us, as individuals and as a couple. Our little family has grown since we moved here. Lindsay was just a baby when we moved here, with a cute little round face, diapers and a mullet hair-do. This is the only place she knows as home. Logan came home from the hospital to this house and it saddens me to think that he won’t remember it when he’s older. We have made amazing lifelong friends out here and please know that you will always be important to us.

Neither of us look forward to having to start over, but we know this is right for our family. Even though we know it’s right, it hasn’t stopped me from being scared to death. I’ve never liked moving because it forces me to go out of my comfort zone and I don’t like that. I know that everything will be fine because we have the church and no matter where you go, you always have the church. I’m excited to be there, I just wish I could take all of you with me…