Utah - Our New Beginnings

Well, it' time to knock the dust off of the Bal Family blog. We've been unpacking, arranging and settling now for a couple of weeks. The house is finally looking like civilized people live in it. It was bad, I was getting scared for awhile. We moved from a large three bedroom house, to a much smaller two bedroom house. Needless to say, we are having a yard sale, Goodwill will be getting a truckload, and I will have things to sell on eBay through the Spring. At least the car can fit in the garage now. For awhile I had serious doubts!

As for how we're enjoying Utah so far? So far so good, though we haven't had the chance to get off base much since we've been here. There has been a lot going on around here, so we haven't had the chance to do much touring around.

The first week, Jason was still on leave when he got recalled for a bomb drop. Here's a link to the story on that: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091023/ap_on_re_us/us_air_force_base_explosion
Nothing like a warm welcoming explosion to start your new job.

The next weekend was spent clearing our the garage, and running back and forth to Lowe's to get shelving and totes to organize all the stuff we are keeping. Thankfully, Lowe's, SUPER Target, and Wal-Mart are all right down the street from us.

Oh, and of course, we had to go trick-or-treating. Brennan was a cowboy. I'll definitely round-up the pictures of that to share.

This week started a 7 day base excercise, which means we haven't seen much of Jason in days. He leaves for work when it's dark, and comes home when it's dark. We're hoping for some normalcy next week, if there is such a thing.

So to wrap up this post, I do have a couple of pictures to share.

Here's the Wasatch Mountain Range looking out our front door.


And here are more mountains and the Salt Lake looking out our back door.


Not bad, huh?

Hugs,
Heather