Saying Goodbye and Embracing a New Beginning

March 9, 2013

Well for most people today was just an ordinary Saturday, but for us it was another beginning.  It was the beginning of the rest of our lives living in Oak Hollow.  We went to sleep last night knowing it would be the last night in our sweet little home at 493 E. 900 N. in Bountiful.  The home we lived in when we got married.. The home we made many good memories in....  Some of my memories are...I remember how nervous Daniel was when we decided to build the shed, but we succeeded.  We also lovingly put in a garden with raised beds and a drip system.  I remember getting a saw and drill for Mothers Day and while Sophie at about 6 months old sat in the stroller I built our first chicken coop on the patio, with the help of Laurel who lived with us for a year before meeting an marrying Daniel.

I will remember canning and putting all of my stores on the shelves in the storage room that we custom ordered and assembled together to fit the alcove.  Oh how I loved and will miss those shelves.  My favorite part of canning is seeing the "fruits of my labors" lined up on the shelves and not an empty bottle left at the end of the season. Every year I want to can more than the year before.  

It is in that home that I not only became a wife, but a mother.  Sophie and Molly joined our family while we lived there.  I remember taking Sophie out when she was only about four months old to lay her on the grass to look up at our maple tree, while I worked to build the rock wall.  I was one of the first warm days of spring but she loved it and from then on we worked outside and Sophie just seemed to know the like her parents she belonged outside in the yard, near the garden.  

This last summer was a treasure.  Sophie does love the outdoors.  So much so that daily I would find that she has escaped out the dog door to play in the yard.  For the first couple of months I worried she would get hurt etc. being alone outside.  She was in her element.  She would go visit the chickens, smell and pick a few flowers, or sometimes follow Libby on her dog path in the back of the flower gardens.  She also loved playing in the water in our yard and sitting next to me in the lounge chairs under the maple tree.  Molly also took many naps on the lounge chair under that maple tree.  Such a calm baby and content to be with Sophie and I.  

I will remember the walks in the stroller around our neighborhood and to visit grandma and grandpas house.  So many discoveries and good chats with friends and neighbors. 

Our home in Bountiful was a stepping stone and will always have a special place to me.  We have now taken the next step in our lives as today we begin the journey to settle in at Oak Hollow and continue to make it our own.  I look forward as I see the snow melt and the yard emerge.  Many may call them projects to be done, I feel love and call them memories to make.

Thank you Mom and Dad for allowing us to make your home, our home.  We will carry on your legacy as we raise our family here and love our surroundings.