Happy Birthday and Moving Again!

Happy 12th Birthday Makenna! I can hardly believe how fast time has flown by. It seems like yesterday when she was my only child and it was just her and I. She has grown up so much even in the last year. What an amazing person she has turned out to be. I love her with all my heart and am so proud of her! Last night we gave her all of her presents cause today she has play practice until time for her first Young Women activity. She will be gone all day. Anyway, she got a bunch of new clothes, shoes and make-up. I think make-up is what she is most excited about. She woke me up at 6:30 this morning asking me to teach her how to put on her makeup. She doesn't even go to school until 9am. Good grief kid, I need some sleep. So she was also very excited cause I got her the twilight movie companion book. She is a huge Twilight fan. Look at her in the picture below. Texting her friends has become one of her favorite things now. Good thing we have unlimited texting.























On to another totally different subject...
We sold our house last night. YES, our brand new dream home. This is a total surprise to most people but not to William and I. The fact is that William's business is only doing well enough to pay the bills and his partners paycheck. A family needs a steady income to pay the bills. When we started building our house things weren't looking so terrible in the economy. And of course things have steadily been getting worse. William has been worried about his business paying our bills when our savings runs out so before that can happen he found a new job. Bad news is that we have to move AGAIN! Good news is that it will be to Farmington NM, where we have always wanted to live. It is a small town like Logan Utah. The schools and shopping are good and the church is big up there. But the biggest thing we look forward to is being close to William's two older brothers. They have 6 nephews between the two families and my kids adore them all. So they are excited too. They aren't excited about moving out of this house or away from friends but they are willing of course. We aren't sure yet when we will move. William will probably start his new job before the move. He hasn't gotten a start date yet but it is a good job and he is happy with it. So I will be a single mom here again while he is up there. Oh and I will be repacking this house that I just finished unpacking. And I have to do it myself again just like when we moved from Utah. UGH! We are hoping to rent again in Farmington and buy land with the money we will make on our house here. Then when the time is right we will rebuild this house.