Dress Up, Dine In

We're homeowners! We closed on the Vintage Ranch yesterday and got our keys today. It's hard to believe that the hunting has graduated to renovating. We had a lot of awesome people helping us get our forever home and I can't wait to make it ours and party! For today it felt good just to sit on the floor in the downstairs den, listen to Seth play around on the haunted piano, and realize there were already pegs for the Christmas lights outside.

There's nothing like hiking in the supreme outdoorness that is Moab (more on that later) and finding out that the Trolley house has meth in it. It's only a little bit of meth (like someone smoked it) but I don't use qualifiers with drugs. That stuff is crazy. Last night we went back and forth about it, saw another house by the dog park and got really dejected. On our way to eat and mope, our agent called and told us to come see a house on her street (in Murray). She knew we didn't want to move out of the city but she thought it had a lot of what we were looking for. I'm aware of how very boy-who-cried-wolf this whole hunting experience has become but we fell in love with this house. The "Vintage Ranch" is an estate sale, built in 1949, has 2978 sq. ft. and is on .33 of an acre. This is the forever home we weren't finding (aside from Nevada) in SLC. It's going to need some updating but we think it's going to be fun deciding what funky vin

I'm winding down an excellent Easter by watching HSM3 on Disney Channel. I'm a teacher so I'm totally allowed to do things like that. It's taking me back to when we just moved here and I had to rip through the wardrobe boxes to find something to wear for the grad scene. Getting paid to get a tan on East High's lawn, eat free food, and dance was one of the easier things I've had to do in my life. It also made me the coolest teacher at school. According to my extras website, they're shooting 4 here next Spring. Think I could still pass as a high school kid at 27? before the Utah red carpet premier