Where are we...some may wonder

I don't have any pics to go along with this one (wish I had taken some from the moving fiasco). I have been putting off, writing this post. One because I have been soo busy the past week-packing, cleaning, moving, cleaning, unpacking, and trying to make life seem somewhat normal in the process, for the kids sake. Two, because I knew this would take some time to write and may even make me a bit sad. So, just to back up a bit...some may not even know that we were even considering moving, others knew of the idea, but to where? Our plans have changed several times in the process, but we finally made the right choice for the situation we were in.
SO here goes:
Way back, last semester Quinn started teaching at UVU (almost full-time) and we thought there was a strong possiblity he could become a full-time professor soon and so we began to contemplate the idea of moving to Utah County. I was NOT keen on the idea. I LOVE , LOVE, LOVE where we live, my friends, my ward, how comfortable I feel here. QUinn was more into the idea because all his family is in Orem and he has so many ties there. So we looked at houses periodically and contemplated the idea casually, while also putting our house on the market. We showed our house several times, but not offers. As time went on, the idea took a place on the back-burner, UNTIL someone out of the blue called us to rent our house (which was the option QUinn was more into). This was the beginning of December, so....we now had people to move into our house and No Place for US to go.
We decided together that we loved the area we live in WAY too much to leave and the UVU idea was not amounting to full-time, so we really had no NEED to move down there, but the renters for our house put quite bit of money down and QUinn committed to them that they could move in (maybe he jumped the gun a bit). With the market the way it is Quinn decided if we were going to buy or build again, now would be the time. So we looked HARD for a couple of weeks, found some great homes but nothing we could agree on as THE ONE.
So, now we are renting a home, for the next 5 month in Riverdale, about 5 blocks from our house. Ame can now finish Kindergarten here, we are going to stay in our same ward and we can find the RIGHT home for us. The home we are in is older, but has LOTS of space and more than meets our needs for the next few months. In the mean time we are deciding whether we want to build again or just find a GREAT house. At least we don't feel rushed into finding something, just because we have to, that we aren't going to be completely happy with for a long time and now we have some time to make this HUGE decision.
We moved on MOnday and I am mostly unpacked now, feeling somewhat less frazzled. This side of moving is always way less stressful, and I can now do things in my own time. I am only unpacking the necessary things to live, since we will only be here a short time. But I am soo exhausted from the HUGE job it was to pack and clean my house. I am definitely going to use that massage gift certificate, I got for Christmas, VERY SOON!!


***I want to thank Frankie and Jeff for sacrificing their time to come up a couple of different time to help us pack and move. You are so generous and we seriously couldn't have done it without you!!!

Also, thank you Keaka and Raschel for coming up. Keaka was a tremendous help with getting things moved out of our house and into this one. Raschel you were a true angel, and just what I needed to help with the kids. Especially Ash, who was sooooooo hard to pack and clean with (constantly at my knees, wanting to be held). YOU are a much more entertaining mom than I am :)

I KNOW everyone is sick of helping us move, especially those who have helped numerous times, but I want you to know it has really meant A LOT to us, and we truly LOVE YOU for your sacrifices on our behalf. Hopefully we are nearing our moving days***