We went to church in Taylorsville today to listen to Tyler Ray speak. Tyler was my home teaching companion before he left on his mission. He went to Johannesburg South Africa. It was really fun to visit with our old friends from the 10th ward. After church we went to the Petty’s house for a little while. As we were leaving church, once we got in the car I asked Gehrig, “Did you see your girlfriend?” (He always says Alyssa Petty...

It was an interesting day. Last night was doing a lot research on the home and I heard back from our Mortgage guy. It seems the magic number was $56,000. If we could get that much out of the sale of our home then we could likely make it work, but that is if we could find a renter for the mother-in-law apartment in the basement. We talked to Emily and determined that in order to get that much money after agent fees and such we would need to sell...

Today we had an interesting message left on our answering machine. There is a home in our our neighborhood that has been vacant for over a year. I emailed the next door neighbor of that house and asked about it. We eventually decided it was too expensive and not worth it. Well the owner, who is also a real estate agent called us. He had been told by a couple of people in the ward that we might be interested. He said they had a buyer that made an...

I have been slacking on the journal entries lately. I have been working hard to try to build my business and also putting in 9 hour days at work. I have been getting up at 4 AM again to get it all done. It has me pretty tired. Last week I had a 3 day weekend due to my new work schedule. We painted the family room and hallway in the basement, installed a new cabinet in the laundry room. Set up our new washer and dryer (we stacked front-loads for...

While I was at work today Rachel painted the laundry/bathroom. When I got home I got the washing machine and dryer out and put them in the garage. I then installed a new light fixture. We should be getting a new washing machine and dryer delivered tomorrow. We are excited to get these new front load models. They seem to wash much better while using less...