My best friend since I was 6, Becky Belnap Maynard, lives in the Salt Lake area now, in Herriman. I called her up and asked if we could come spend a couple of days with her to which she was very excited and enthusiastic in helping to move us forward with a move that would put us living closer to each other. We had planned on staying with the Maynards for Monday and Tuesday night, but on Sunday afternoon I got a call from Becky. Her 4 year old had come down with Strep throat. Rather than chance getting the bug we decided to get a hotel for Monday night and give him time to have his antibiotic kick in and not be contagious.
This is the only picture I took of the whole trip, go figure. It is stinking cute though. They all loved pulling their own bags and being big helpers with packing. This is us trying to get into our room at the hotel.
The kids loved staying in the hotel. We got a suite that it had a microwave and we decided to do dinner on the cheap and get microwavable dinners. We let the kids get Kid Cuisines so I think they were happier than if we had gone out to eat. They ran back and forth across the big room, jumped on the couch, looked at the ducks around the pool outside our window and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. One of the most interesting things to us about the hotel was the TV. We got rid of cable about a year and a half ago and we don’t even have a digital converter box so our kids never watch regular television. We are Netflix people and have really come to enjoy instant Netflix through our Wii. It has kind of changed our kids’ perspectives on TV though. We found America’s Funniest Home Videos and watched it with the kids during dinner. They loved it, especially Ellen. The next morning she insisted that we turn on “that funny show with the man.” It took us a while to explain to her that we couldn’t just make it turn on. On cable you have to wait to see the shows you want when they air them. Very funny for Landon and me to realize what not having regular TV has done to our kid’s perspective.
On Tuesday morning we woke up, had breakfast at the hotel and headed out to meet with our Real Estate Agent. We are using Landon’s Cousins Mom, Heather, as an agent. We discussed what we were looking for in a house and she suggested a couple of areas of Salt Lake for us to check out, especially Tooele. After that meeting we dropped the kids off with the no longer contagious Maynard’s, had a little lunch, and headed out to drive through cities and neighborhoods. We were also able to meet with a loan officer that we loved (another fabulous suggestion of Heather’s) and took the time to drive out to Tooele.
Tooele is a little town about 25 minutes outside of Salt Lake. Turns out that we really liked the feel of the town. It had a cozy little town feel to it but still had enough that I didn’t feel like I was getting banished. The deals out there on houses are actually really great as well. On Wednesday we were able to take the kids with us to look at a whole slew of houses and get a little bit more feel for what was available. If all goes according to plan, I think we will try to make Tooele our new home. Here’s to hoping.
The trip to Salt Lake was short and packed full, but also a lot of fun. There was lots of time for the kids to play with the Maynard kids and for me to catch up with my sweet best friend. Plenty of time to get us excited about the possibilities and to get a little scared. More than anything, it gave us a chance to spend time with people we love and get us all excited for a new adventure we could be starting.
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I. AM. SO. EXCITED.
Get here soon my friend!
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