Sixty Degrees is NOT cold?

One of my Arizona friends suggested I create a blog so that we could stay in touch with all our friends down south. I thought it was a great idea and my life is finally under control enough (for a few seconds, anyway) that I decided to give it a try. We arrived in the glorious state of Utah in the early hours of December 29th, 2007. So far, Utah (the state, not the people) has not been very hospitable. We are told that this has been one of the coldest and snowiest winters in Utah for a long time. Even the natives have been complaining. We have survived two absolute blizzards and countless other snow storms. So much for breaking us into the climate shock easily. But then, we didn't expect it to be easy arriving in the dead of winter. We wouldn't have complained about an unusually mild winter, though. The good news is that we are seeing definite signs of spring, which is such a relief. The bad news is that this LONG winter has in reality been less than two months for us since we spent December in sunny Arizona. Hopefully this was good practice for next winter when (we think!) we will be here for the entire season. Our children have been troopers--considering that in their past life, they considered sixty degrees to be cold. All of you that are laughing at our wimpiness, remember that we braved 115 degrees plus in the summers. And in August it is NOT a dry heat--it is humid as well as hot!

After four months of living with Dad in Utah and the rest of us in Arizona, we are very happy to be together again. We enjoyed attending the BYU Women's and Men's Choir concert at BYU last Friday evening. Our first real date in months (taking care of our injured dog didn't count!)

Our big news today is that we had two showings on our house this past weekend. In the prior eight months before we had one showing. Amazing what a new realtor and dropping your listing price 60K will do for you. No offers yet, though.