Our New Home!

Derek and I have lots of stories to tell now! We have been so busy that we can’t find time to update the blog but life is good! I am loving my second year of teaching and Derek is enjoying his new job with Rio Tinto. He is now working in exploration and will be traveling throughout the United States to visit drill sites. We are close to celebrating our one year anniversary and it has been a great year. We spent the first 10 ½ months of our marriage in a nice basement apartment in Riverton, Utah. It was the home of a great family but it was VERY cold down there. I would come home everyday put on my warmest pair of sweats, sit by the space heater and wrap up in my blanket. Derek loved the cold but I was miserable so we began looking at homes just for fun. We were not really serious about buying a home at first but we decided we would start looking anyway. In April we went to the first house and loved it. It was a short sale in Herriman, and it was beautiful. Our realtor told us we could make an offer and there was no risk.  We looked an MANY other homes in the mean time. We waited, and waited and waited and waited some more. We would get updates saying we would hear in few weeks but months just kept passing. In August we were told we would hear on the 5^th of September but we had learned not to hold our breath! But finally on October 6 (Derek’s birthday!) we got a call saying the home was ours if we still wanted it. We quickly went and looked at it again, got all the inspections and appraisals done and closed on November 14. It really was a long wait but we couldn’t be happier.

  

The day after we got moved in there was a big snow storm. We were trying to unpack a few things but the snow was perfect snow man snow so we took a little break and made a couple of snowmen. I made mine and he was so cute. Derek decided he needed to make his bigger- it was huge! It was so fun building snowmen in our new front yard!