Lost in Translation... oh wait we are still in the same country. So why am I so confused?

Haven't updated for a bit so here is the low down. We moved. Most of you already know that. If however you need our address just email me or something.

So here we are in Washington. Its green, hilly, green, there's an ocean, um its green. We have dreamed of moving to the Puget area for several years and we actually did it. One of a very few things that we said we WANTED to do and actually have gotten to do. Ironically (the time when most things you want happen) it happened in a time that I really did not want to leave Utah and my family. TJ has awesome friendships there not to mention his best friend is his cousin that is one month older than him, and we had an awesome ward! But Joe was offered a transfer with Comcast for much better pay, plenty of overtime, and much more room for advancement up the ladder! So I am here and I am happy.

The view from our condo is amazing, and when I get lonely I take a book to the balcony, sit in my hammock chair, and enjoy a dream coming true even if the timing was off.

My View:


TJ is coping okay. I think we have like 150 drawings to send to cousins. But I signed him up for swim lessons as soon as we got here and we have a pool here at the club house. In a few weeks he starts Karate and Dance lessons so he will be hopefully too busy this summer to notice the lack of cousins, and then school will start and we will make tons more friends.

It helped Grandma was here for the first 10 days. I have had several people tell that having her come was not a good idea because having "the mother" with you for that long isn't healthy, but I have to tell you in all honesty it was good to have her. It would not have gone as smoothly without her. Despite my need to be very independent and stubborn I let down my walls and accepted her help with cleaning and unpacking. I then got sick so it was a HUGE blessing to have her at that point as well. She is awesome.

We have already had many adventures and I will have to blog them but for now this is it. We love you Utah but we are on to Greener pastures...literally. (Just maybe not sunnier skies, it is a rainy area.)