A HUGE Sigh of Relief

I've been wanting to write this post for three weeks, the one that says we've finally found a house to move into!

As many of you know, DEl was offered the position of the Dean of Students at Dixie College. For those of you who hadn't heard.....surprise! His starting date is October 1st. We feel that this is a great opportunity for us; it's the next step DEl needs to take in his career and we will be much closer to our families. However, we've had a great year in Price and it will be hard to walk away from the many friends we have made.

Anyway, we weren't anticipating having difficulty finding a place to live in St. George because it's such a buyers market right now. Yet, it seemed that everything we looked at was either too small, too big, too expensive, no yard, in the wrong area, etc. Or, if it met our criteria, it wouldn't be available to move into for several months. DEl and I traveled down to Washington County on three separate occasions and came back each time feeling frustrated and confused. In the meantime, the clock was ticking - our deadline to move out of our current house is Sept. 27th.

Finally, things fell into place yesterday with one of the houses we'd seen and actually really liked. It is located in the new Desert Hills subdivision in Bloomington Hills - in fact, it's just up the street from the brand new Desert Hills High School, the school we were wanting to get Bronson and Krissia enrolled at. There are lots of families there, and our backyard opens up to a hill that is BLM land.

This certainly has been a test of our faith, but we're confident that house and neighborhood will be a great fit for our family!