Moving on…

I guess I should write another post since the last one was so depressing haha. I hate looking at my blog and seeing that post. So I figure I will write another post so that I can look at something happy instead!

So for the last year and a few months we have been living in Phoenix. We really loved the house we lived in. We were renting from my brother Trent. The house was perfect. Everything we wanted and more was in that house. I loved the school that Tyler went to. I am SO GLAD that Tyler had that as a starting point to his schooling years. He learned so much from going there and it was so important that he learned such great skills. We loved living so close to downtown Phoenix. It was fun to be able to get there so fast and so easy. We went to lots of events and stuff. It was close to PCH where Jakes docs are and it was close to Toms work! Everything seemed great. Well that is until it was time for Jacob to get therapy. We could not find a therapy center for Jacob out in Phoenix. Even our support coord said that it was hard to find therapy where we live because not very many people want to work out there. So after a LONG year of no therapy we decided that we needed to take Jake back to LIFE. So I started driving there 3 times a week. It was horrible! The drives were so long and I started to dread going. But I knew that I had to for Jake because he needed this therapy. After about a month of driving back and forth I told Tom that it just was not working and we needed to either move closer or just not do therapy anymore. Tom was VERY against moving. He loved where we lived, he loved everything about it. Both of us had callings in the ward that we loved and did not want to give up. Every time I would bring it up, Tom would just say, NO...im not changing my mind! We are NOT moving. I prayed soo hard about what to do. I felt like moving would be a good decision but Tom was so against it that I had no idea what I should do. I looked at a few houses and was trying to figure out if we did move where we would go. But nothing seemed right. Every house that I looked at just was not the right one. I just never had a good feeling. Both of us felt like either decision was not the right one. So we thought we would just stay and drive and do what we are doing. The night of Tylers kindergarten graduation, my mom was going to take the kids overnight. So while we were at home I just had a thought to look one more time online for a house. So the very first house I did I emailed and got a response right away! So since we had to pick up the kids the next morning we thought we would go look at that house right after. When we went the next day....as soon as I stepped in the house I just felt so good about it. I felt like this is where we needed to be. I was almost in tears because I just felt so strongly that we needed this house. But I knew that Tom still would not be open to moving. When we looked at this house...I just told Tom...please look at it with an open mind. But when we got done, and in the car, he said, I really felt like this is our home! And right there I knew why I felt so strongly about it. I knew that we needed this house. Everything after that fell right into place. We signed the lease and moved in a week later! We love where we live. We feel so at home and so comfortable here. I am so glad that we made this decision but I am still really sad to leave our phoenix world behind. I know that Heavenly Father had put us in Phoenix for a reason. And I know that he wants us here for a reason. We may never really know what those reasons are but I am glad that we can follow what He wants us to do.

Now hopefully we can stay here for a very long time! I am tired of moving!!!