The Koch Family: April 2011

Last week Shay and I went with some dear friends to Salt Lake City to see our soon-to-be new town! Shay and some of his fellow residents had a conference there, and some of the wives tagged along. We had a wonderful and successful trip - we found a house!!!

We had been looking at this house online for several weeks, but didn't want to commit until we saw it. As soon as we were in it I fell in love! It is fully furnished - down to the silverware - so we only have to bring clothes, toys and Rivers' crib. That is a huge relief for us as I really didn't want to haul our entire house full of furniture and stuff across the country twice in one year!

the view from a few streets over

The house has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms (yes, that means a "guest suite" is available for visitors!!) a playroom, and a fenced in backyard. Lilly and Heidi will be making the trip with us, and the backyard is perfect for them. Even better than the house is the neighborhood. The day we visited it was sunny and the quiet streets were FULL of kids! There is a cute little local shopping area with a deli, starbucks, book store, etc that is just a few blocks from our house, and a few more blocks away is Liberty Park. It is an incredible park - huge with a duck pond, playgrounds, and everything. There are also gorgeous mountain views from anywhere in SLC, even from our street!

Other than the house, we went skiing almost all week. We went to Snowbird and Alta (Alta was my favorite). Shay was in heaven, and I think I was a good sport :) I certainly was not the best skier, and the slopes were way steeper than I was used to, but the scenery was unbelievable and the runs were (as promised) much wider and less crowded than the east coast. I'm sure after we're out there for a year I will at least be able to get on the blues. Please note: there are not many pictures of Shay skiing because he skis at places that I would never even consider walking on, let alone skiing on! :)