It's been a long time....

I haven't posted anything for so long, and I don't know how great these pictures are. But I thought I take a minute to try to remember some of the things that have been going on at our house. So much has happened over the past month. I am going to try to remember some of it....

• KC and Tawni both had birthdays. They turned 24. Since they have birthday's in the same month, I think they are destined to get a joint present for much of their marriage. We gave them a BBQ grill and they have been grilling up a storm!
• When I gave my notice at work, they decided they would close the office as of November 1! That made a lot more work to close everything. I've spent the last month boxing and sorting and shipping and sanitizing. It was kind of sad. I opened the office and set it up, and partly closed it and took a lot down. I'm glad for the experience that I had there, and know that without that experience we would not have the opportunities we have now.
• The "For Sale" sign got put in the front yard and we have a lock box on the doorknob. Yikes!
• I traveled to Columbus on business one last time.
• We got new appliances in the kitchen. Our appliances were way outdated and they made the kitchen look pretty bad. We were hoping not to change them and just reduce our price so the buyer could pick what they wanted, but we had a couple of recommendations to make the updates so we did.
• We put knobs on the cabinets.
• We painted the basement. Our awesome home teacher came over and helped Kenny paint the doors.
• We got new carpet in the basement. To get the carpet, we had to move everything out of the basement. One of my visiting teachers and her husband came over to help us. It was a big job to move the furniture up to the garage. It is not coming back down. The new homeowners can move their stuff down here instead!

• We cleaned all the cabinets and boxed up a ton of stuff.
• We put together a ward picnic. It was a great success. We had a lot of people come and it was a lot of fun.
• We were released from being the ward activity committee.
• We attended a baptism and a baby blessing and had fun with family and took naps because we were at someone else's house and so we couldn't work on ours!
• My co-workers and I had a last get together. Kenny and I had dinner with all the great people that I've been fortunate to work with over the past 7 years.
• We attended a funeral. A friend that we've known for 20 years died suddenly of a heart attack. He was only 1 year older than me. What sadness...a reminder that life is fragile and how grateful we are for the gospel and the promise of eternal life!
• Our cute ward family had a going-away party for us. We were a little worried about this. We certainly don't want someone else who moves out of the ward to get their feelings hurt, but it sure made us feel loved. So many people in our ward have touched our hearts and we will never forget them. They took a picture of everyone who came to the party, so we can always have that to remember them by.


• I had to talk in Sacrament meeting. Kenny talked last month, so he got out of it. But I suppose I have given my "farewell" speech. And, if they ask us to talk when we move, we have talks all prepared!
• We have spent a ton of time on the MLS. We haven't made a decision on a house yet, but hopefully soon.

Here is a picture of Kenny sitting down. Believe me, when I say "we" above when a house fixing chore is involved...it is almost all Kenny. Working on the house has been a full time job for him over the past month. He has been working so hard and I think this is the first time that he has stretched out and relaxed for a minute.

This is long and not necessarily in order, but I hope this will help us remember all that we have accomplished when it get discouraging because it seems that we aren't getting done!