Getting settled and ready to party!

Moving was rather a fiasco, but we're finally here trying to get settled in. We couldn't seem to clean anything at the apartment good enough for management (although most of it was cleaner than when we found it), so we're going to end up paying for it, but it just got to the point where we don't even care. We're really glad to get out of there and not have to deal with the management anymore. Just as a quick public announcement, don't ever live in Brighton Place Apartments in Midvale. They're old and rundown, which means things are breaking all the time. We were able to paint our place up and make it look nice, but living in a third-world crime-filled neighborhood was a little less than preferable. We had people trying to break into our third floor apartment at least once that we know of, and there are always people around casing the buildings out. Over the last couple of months alone a bunch of apartments were destroyed in a fire, the swat team had to come break someone's door down, and there were a few of what appeared to be drug busts in the neighborhood. Fun times....

Anyway, we have a pretty sweet setup now, especially for being at my folks' house. We have a little kitchenette in our bedroom and part of a family room and library as well. Ash is having a great time running up and down the stairs all day (don't ask me why, but she loves it!). Most of our stuff is in storage for now up in Salt Lake. When we're ready to head up to the Northwest in a handful of months, we'll probably do a u-pack and have all our stuff just shipped up there for us (I really don't want to be driving a U-Haul truck through the Cascades; feel free to call me a chicken).

Jeff and Crystal and their kids are due here in the next couple of hours, and since it's Leo's birthday we're going to have a little party (complete with gluten-free cake for him). We're really looking forward to Thanksgiving tomorrow. I hope we can locate the camera to get some pics up of both that and Leo's party :P.

Thanks to those of you who helped us with the move, even though it took longer than we hoped it would. Thank you to all of you friends and family for your love and support. Thank you for helping us reach for our dreams.