Our New Environment

I thought I'd share some pics of our new environment. I always think it's fun to see some one's surroundings and home where they spend their life each day.

The Jordan River Parkway trail goes around our neighborhood but we have an easy access just down the road. It's been fun to go on walks there with the kiddies. I love that there are cows across the river and it smells like the country. Pretty close to Sugar City, I'd say!!! Hannah thinks it stinks, but I love the fresh country air.

And here's the view in and out of our little neighborhood here in Lehi, a photo of our boxy house, and my favorite part of our house - the openness.

I love the space in the kitchen because in our rental we only had like 1 cupboard and 4 drawers. And I love that we aren't stepping all over each other here. Our house has some great things like big enough square footage for our little fam. But with big homes/small prices everything isn't fancy-pancy. But we're so grateful for our home and I think we'll like the ward and neighborhood with the down-to-earth people. I've really tried to get a few things organized. Most of my house is in complete shambles still with brown boxes strewn everywhere. And remember the laundry baskets I packed in my van... well, some of them still need to be unpacked. Yikes!

But one obtainable goal was the pantry. Remember how my mom came and helped put together the entire kitchen... what a life saver that was. Hannah helped me put the rest of the food on the shelves. It's still a slight work in progress as I need to label my baskets, my half & gallon containers, etc. (if I ever can find my labels packed in the bottom of a box).

A shelf-reliance may never be in our future, but I'll try my hardest to keep my cans of food storage lined up and rotated. Oh - and in my 3 1/2 gallon buckets I store white flour, sugar, and rice which we rotate through all the time.

How is it that organizing a closet is so much more fun than anything else? Perhaps it's because I know it might stay like that for more than 10 minutes.