Adjusting to life in the Springs...

We've been here for a few weeks now, and things seem to be getting better!  We've found the stores we need, the mall, Library, a few parks and have ventured out to Garden of the Gods.  Nate's schedule hasn't been as good as I thought it would be, but he's only working about 45-55 hours a week, so I can't complain too much!  

We are renting the house we hope to buy soon.  There is FINALLY someone working on it, and we're hoping to close by the end of September at the latest.  We've considered this a good thing, (1) because it's kinda like a trial run, if we don't like it, we don't have to buy it. (2) Our rent is pretty low so we are saving money while we wait.

So far things are good.  We like it here.  Our ward is great, and so friendly, our neighbors have been great too!  We have a running list of things we want to do to the house like painting, updating the kitchen and bathrooms, and fixing up the yard a bit.  Nothing too major which is nice!  

The weather has been interesting, considering the fact that this is a desert.  We've had rain nearly every day we've been here, it's great because it cools things off!  We've had flooded streets, a few tornado warnings, and huge hail.  They (whoever they are) say it isn't normal for the weather to be like this...I'm completely okay with it!  We haven't had to water the grass once!

One of my favorite things about this house is probably the yard!  Although there are a few things we want to make look a little nicer, and the grass needs some filling in.  The house has tall trees all around it!  Helps keep it cool, and it's just fun having big mature trees like that!  We found a sand box a few days after moving in, it was buried under a stack of twigs and branches.  This is probably Brynlee and Gracen's favorite things to do outside.  We have a huge yard, too!  It's about a half acre lot, and it goes pretty far back behind the house.  We only use about half of it, but it helps it feel a little less like a big city.  

We also have lots of little critters around here!  The kids love it!  We have rabbits running around the yard all day, lots of birds and we've seen a few squirrels jumping through the trees.  This morning, we had 4 bucks in our yard.  They came up near the deck and were about 3-4 feet away from where we were watching them out the back door.  

There was a 4 point deer and 3, 2 points.  Nate missed out on seeing it so I sent him some pictures of it at work.
He would have loved to see this in our backyard!  

This is just off the deck right outside the door!  

Well that's all the fun for now, and about all we've been up to since we've been here!