Emily

Hi Family,

Well, it's been two months now living with John's Dad here in Holladay. I think for the most part we're pretty much settled in, and things are good. We had a fun time watching our house, the "little" house, our shed and 35 trees get destroyed and carried away a week before Christmas. We purchased a new camera before hand and literally took thousands of pictures during the process. I will do my best to send some. The property looks completely different. Our neighbors were really shocked to see it also. They were first very concerned the day before when Sandy City's crime scene investigation unit used it to stage a murder. There was yellow crime scene tape and cop cars galore on both sides of the street and soon the calls started streaming in. I had only warned one neighbor that it might happen, and in hind sight should have made more calls with the heads up. It's good to know we have wonderful neighbors who are looking out for us. Anyway, they wanted to bring their swat team in the following week, but the house was gone the next day. We still go out there to pick up our mail, take our kids to school, and go to church. We just look at in amazement every time we go out there and can't believe it's really our property. We didn't change our address or our phone number, as we hope to start construction sometime in March.

Casey turned 16 in December and celebrated by going snowboarding with some new equipment. I can't believe he's that age already, and 3-1/2 inches taller than me already also. We had a good Christmas, although we barely had the tree out and decorated a couple of days before Christmas Eve. It went by too fast for us. My kids were only out of school for a week this year. It was a very fun-filled week though, we were glad to see Priscilla and her family. We had fun playing games, seeing movies, and sledding. Last week I was able to go out with Mom and Lucy for a yummy dinner at Cheesecake Factory. We're excited to see her new baby boy hopefully sometime next month!

Congrats to Ammon and Ang on your new baby girl Harper..... she's beautiful! Take care everyone.

Love, Emily and Family