Catching Up

I need to do some catch up with the happenings here in Smithtopia. Make sure you scroll down for the picture posts below.

When we moved to Atlanta almost a year ago Dan was still finishing up his graduate studies and was working part time with his new job. He is now working full time and still polishing off his PHD stuff in the evenings. Between his four callings and two jobs we don't see him as much as we would like to. However, the finish line is in sight. He will be doing his defense mid April and will graduate in May. After 6 years, 5 moves, 10 + callings, 4 wards, and 1 monkey girl we are ready to settle down for good.

Dan's company will allow us to live wherever we want (hurray). After much prayer and thought we have decided to move to Happy Valley (Utah). While we were in Utah over the Christmas break we did some serious house shopping. We decided to build a home. We found a great builder and a lot that is a mere 7 minutes from my parents house. We are so excited to be close to family. We have sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and cousins on both sides of our family super close. After 6 years in the South with no relatives around it will be so great to be with family again. Our house will be done in June of this year and we can't wait to settle in.

I will be posting some pictures of our house as it gets built soon. I just have to thank my fantastic parents who are watching over the construction of our house and taking care of all our stuff in Utah. I love you guys!