Wednesday, September 19, 2007

California Here We Come!

Big, big news! John has been promoted with his company Huttig Building Products to General Manager of the plant in Sacramento, California!!!!!! Our family is soooooooo proud of him! This obviously means a move for us. We went and found a house to rent (see blog below) just this week and we move the first week of October! Yes, it's fast but John needs to be there as soon as possible. We are excited and sad at the same time. It's hard to leave the place that has been home to John for 34 years and home to Abby for 11 years. Abby is from Northern California so in many ways this is a homecoming for her. The boys are thrilled about the new adventure and glad that they will get to come back to Arizona to visit Grandpa and Grandma in Flagstaff. Alita will be a California Girl just like her mom. We look forward to connecting with old friends and being able to see Abby's Aunt Pam and Uncle Bill who live in Healdsburg more often. It will be fun getting to know our new home city, Elk Grove. Elk Grove is a suburb of Sacramento and it seems to be a wholesome place to raise kids. We appreciate your prayers as we make this HUGE change. It may be a while before we blog again.

The new digs




Here is our rental home on Generations Dr in Elk Grove. It's a nice little place but what really sold us on it was the backyard. There is an apple tree, orange tree and lovely roses. They boys will have a place to run and play and there is a great patio for mom and dad to sip lemonade and watch them play. We plan to rent for 1-2 years and then buy a house in this great town we will call home. Come visit us!

Joshua the reader!


Joshua read his first book with minimal assistance. Can you guess the title?

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Notre Dame Football

The Fighting Irish opened their football season against Georgia Tech this past Saturday. We won't mention the score (ND was trampled on) BUT we still enjoyed watching the game as a family.





Blue and Gold Nachos

Good Irish snacking!