Our new house

We have been busy moving into the new house we bought in Westpoint (I know some thought we dropped off of the face of the planet). The house is an 80's style rambler, in a beautiful quite neighborhood. The schools in the area are all new, and from what we hear very good (Clayton is only two so we have no first hand experience).

There are beautiful, mature trees in the yard, Trumpet trees grow along the front yard, a beautiful silver leaf maple in the back and a small leaf lindon in the back (the tree is medium sized, the name is small leaf lindon). I love the lindon as the tree has a beautiful spade shape. I love trees period, way better than cats! You only need to clean up after a tree once a year, cats on the other hand the clean up is nearly a daily requirement.

There are rose bushes planted around the home in the planter locations, as well as a couple of lilacs. Enough of the descriptions lets have a photo:



We have a lot of plans for our new house and are hard at work making it our home. The yard is a bit overgrown and needs some work, and well the interior is a little dated (working on that too). Wish us luck as we work on making our new house our new home. Maybe, just some day, some of Anji's sisters might actually visit us in our new home...

Moving Clayton's cousins

We recently helped my sister and her family move to Payson. Sadly I didn't think to take a shot of the home but I did manage to capture a few photos of the kids. All of Clayton's first cousins live far enough away that visiting any of them is a real treat. Jordan is a real hoot and Clayton loves to hang out with Jordan.

When he gets lazy he sometimes calls her Jorge (it's an affectionate thing).



Of course Brody is still too little to play with but he manages to keep himself entertained...



Clayton though is growing like a weed lately. He really is starting to look older every day. He has lost all that baby fat!

Of course Jordan has always been ahead of her time.



I wonder what Brody is going to be like?



His sister is a little dare devil!



It is exciting to see Becky move (my sister). We are going to have to do a sleep over some time! Clayton will love the chance to hang with his cousin Jorge... uh Jordan.

Clayton in a box

We have been packing up boxes of our stuff in anticipation of selling our townhome and buying a "real home". Really, we are growing out of the town home and want something with a little more room, garage and a yard to call our own. Sometimes I think about all the things that we think we need and I can't help feel that we are so spoiled. We have so much and it seems so little is expected from us.

I digress, back to the topic. As I mentioned we have been packing up boxes so we have quite a few empty boxes lying around. One box just happened to be sitting empty and open on the couch, but low and behold it wasn't really empty, a little boy had crawled in. Boo, there is a Clayton in the box!