2010 - We bought a house!!!

We just happened to find this amazing deal on a great house in the Holladay/Cottonwood Heights area. It was a short sale, which would normally - and ironically - takes A LONG TIME to close on, so we were thinking that maybe we would get it towards the end of the year...well they approved our offer in less than a week. We were STUNNED! We were SO excited to move into this house, even though we knew we would miss the Avenues and our incredible ward, but we realized we had a growing family! It has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms upstairs, and 3 bedrooms, one bathroom and a laundry room downstairs, along with a family room. We decided to "transform" the basement to make it a mother-in-law apartment and rent it out. I was soo happy to realize that it had a SWIMMING POOL!!! Zane was not so happy, as he was thinking of costs and that he would be the one taking care of it! We had to do some MAJOR work (and still are) to our home. The pool's cover was broken, so the whole swimming pool was green, we removed all the stained carpet, 70's wallpaper, and began a LONG process of installing a kitchen downstairs. We COULD NOT have done it without the help of so many friends and our wonderful families. Once again, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for everything you did for us. We feel so blessed to have you in our lives, and are so grateful for the hours of sacrifice you spent with us!