Poor Nathan

On Thursday (Sept 23rd) Nathan was putting his bike down and just dropped the handle bars. Well, the handle bars came down and the full weight of his bike landed on his big toe. The poor boy has been in pain ever since. He will loose his toenail. I guess the internal pressure got so great the it finally broke through and started bleeding. I have had to squeeze his toe to get the excess blood out twice. I feel like such a heel when I have to do that because it hurts him.

Stephen passed!

Yesterday Stephen took his Pharmacy Certification Test and he passed! We are very excited. He's spent a lot of time studying over the few months and it feels good to be done. Now he's looking for a job in a pharmacy and we continue the long, but slow march to finishing his pharmacy degree to become a full-fledged pharmacist.

First Fish

Even before we moved here, Isaac has been telling us that Oquirrh Lake was his "fishing lake." He has been 'hand fishing in the little stream that is part of the lake and has brought several fish home, but he wanted a fishing pole. He finally earned his fishing pole. He has tried to catch fish using plastic bait and it certainly was not working. A neighbor let Isaac use some salmon eggs as bait and today he caught three fish. He was so excited that he called daddy and told him. It was great.

Latest on homes

The bank wanted us to go higher than we could on the yellow house, so we are leaving that one alone. This is the blue house at 11557 Inglehart Ln. It is a good home as well. The only thing I don't like about the house is the lack of mountain views from the house. Other than that, it is a great house. At this point, I will take a home over mountain views. Having said that, we are also still looking at other homes around the area. Especially within the ward boundaries that we are in. We love the ward and would love to stay here. We appreciate your prayers in our behalf. Thanks,

Love, Connie

We found it!

Ever since we moved here 4 months ago, we had heard about a zip line park here in Daybreak. We never could find it, until now. Sean got online and googled it. It is fun. The one with three girls is Erin and two of our neighbors ( They are close to Erin's age). The other one is Erin

New Calling

As of this past Sunday (July 18), I am now the Primary Chorister for the Little Elm Ward. I'm a little nervous about the calling, but hopefully it will be fun. Wish me luck!

Sarah

My attempt at drawing floor plans

Hi Everybody,

My mom wanted to see the floor plans for this house we have an offer on. I couldn't find any real ones, so I attempted to draw them. They are obviously not to scale, but you can get a general idea of where the different rooms are. Sorry they are sooooo bad.

Kestrel Rise Home

We like this home. We hope we get it

Let me try that again. We were able to walk through this home again today and we took pictures. We hope we get this house. I know it is DIRTY in the house. It is being sold as is so we would really need to clean before we move in. Anyway, here are some of the pictures we took.

There is some positive activity on this home.

Movies under the stars

For those in Texas this summer...

Frisco plays movies outside in the Frisco square in the summer on a big screen. Stephen and I are going to go to two of the movies in July if anyone cares to join us. It's free, just bring a lawn chair/blankets to sit on.

July 9 - All Dogs go to Heaven @ 8:30 pm
July 23 - The Neverending Story @ 8:30 pm

Birthday Pie?

Even as pregnant as she is, Laura threw me a birthday party.  We invited some friends and her mother was in town.  It was really great.

I had a pecan and a lemon meringue pie.  I wish you all could have been here.

School is done~ now what?

School is out now. Friday June 4th was their last day. They have been out now for one week, and they are BORED! The weather has been really weird here. The first part of the week we ALL got sunburned, but today it probably won't make it out of the 60's and it is supposed to rain all weekend.

We have been to the library twice already and now they don't know what to do. Well actually, that isn't true. Isaac "went exploring" for several hours. I didn't know where he was. I even rode all the way around the lake hoping to find him. When I got home he was there. He was exploring a new park he hadn't seen before. I enjoy being here in Daybreak, but it will take a while for the kids to get used to the rules.

No news yet on houses. We are going to put offers on a few more houses on Monday.

Love you.
Connie

School is ALMOST done!!!!

You know when you are so close to something you can almost feel it? Well, that is where the whole family is at as far as school is. The last day of school for Sean and the kids is this Friday. It is getting harder and harder to get up in the morning to drive them to school. Sean is done with early morning, but he still is driving the kids in to school (At least a half hour each way). Everybody is getting anxious to be done.

We have been having fun in our new community. The kids have made a lot of new friends and I am having fun exploring the trails and riding my bike around. I can hardly wait to get Caleb back so I can start taking him on walks in the morning.

Last Saturday, Daybreak had a street fair with a rock climbing wall, free sodas, chalk drawing on the street and flying kites in the park. It was a lot of fun. Erin and Isaac did the rock climbing. Erin made it to the top, but Isaac got about 3/4 the way up and made the mistake of looking down and realizing how far down it was. He got scared and decided he didn't want to go up any farther. I got some good pictures of it and went to download the pictures from my phone, but I couldn't get it to sinc up. I don't know what is going on. I will keep working on it and see if I can get some photos to post.

We are doing good. There is no news on the house buying front yet. We have some offers in on short sales, and hope to put one in on another one either today or tomorrow. It is at 11323 Kestrel Rise Rd, South Jordan, Ut 84095. It is immediately behind where we are living right now. It has 4 completed bedrooms and a GREAT view off the front porch. It would be great to be able to get this house because it would still be in the same ward. The kids are starting to make friends in the ward and it is a good ward. We are happy here.

There is also a forclosure on Iron Mountain way (I don't remember the address right now) that I want to look at and maybe put an offer on.

Now, having said all of this. I know we will get the house where the Lord needs us to be. That has been the feeling since we started this whole moving process thing. Everything will be all right. It is just the patience of waiting that is hard.

Connie

Livin' Large

Laura is feeling quite pregnant. I wanted to share this picture so you can see how much she's progressed.