New Step!

The biggest moment of this past week was the closing on our little house in Bountiful.  B and I went over on Monday night to finish cleaning and then knelt down to say a quiet prayer of gratitude for this little house that saw us both take new steps in our lives.  It saw me go from being alone to married and becoming a dad to two beautiful girls.  I was holding it all together rather well I thought until we locked up and I walked to the gate to go to the driveway and turned to see the yard I had worked so hard on and transformed over the past five years.  I lost it and B and I just stood there crying, our hearts full  with gratitude for the past we shared here and for the future we have to build together.  Luckily we have a wonderful new family moving into our little house and will build their own memories.

 

This past Sunday we went down to the Ranch in Mapleton for Joel's Mission Farewell.  He is leaving to serve in Sacramento California this next week.  Joel did a wonderful job and gave an honest assessment of the importance of gaining your own testimony.  It brought me back to when I was his age and trying to figure out what I believed to be true and taking those tentative steps away from relying on others testimonies to find your own.  He will be so much stronger for it as I know that without my own testimony I would not be who I am today. It was fun to spend time with the family and spend a lazy afternoon on the ranch. 

B and the girls feeding the horses.

Sophie taking time to smell the flowers!

Molly has slowly started walking this week.  Nothing huge but she has started preferring to walk over crawling and has taken her first steps...see video below.  I also included a video of her doing what we call Blink! Blink! which is when she opens and closes her hands while reaching up to the sky.  She does this when she gets excited or when she wants to be held and we love it. 

 

 

Other than that we are settling into Oak Hollow and won't know what to do with only one house to take care of.  I set out to rotatill the garden and realized the tank won't hold fuel which is AWESOME!  I swear that thing needs to be in the shop more then in the field.  B fertilized our yard and didn't quite get it spread evenly as you can see by the obvious stripes...we are still learning this whole process so give us time.  The girls have settled in as well and Sophie is loving having the yard to play in and even on chilly days wants to be in the sun.