I'm back!

It's been a while since I was blogging, but with all the changes going on right now, I figured now was as good as time as ever to start up again. The biggest change to happen in our family is that was are in the process of moving from Utah to Australia! Clay received a promotion at work in January, which will require us to move internationally. Currently he is the controller at Kennecot Copper which is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. His new position is CFO for NorthParkes Mine in Parkes, New South Wales Australia. Exciting right? Well, now that we are only a few weeks away from moving all I'm feeling is stress and anxiety! There is excitement in there too, but under a lot of layers of the others! As of Thursday, we received our visa's from Australia so now things are really moving fast! The movers will be here on the 23rd and 24th of May to pack us up. But, we wont be moving into the hotel until the 27th. We debated about this for a few days, and ended up deciding we would be more comfortable in a empty home, close to our kids friends instead of in a hotel with five kids! We already will be in the hotel for a week as it is, we didn't want to make it two weeks!

So for now, we are very busy with packing up the stuff we don't plan on taking with us and storing it in our storage unit. I've been taking the kids to the doctors, dentist, eye doctors trying to get everything up to date with immunization shots, teeth cleaning, vision test (for contacts). Savannah has to be stocked up on all her diabetic supplies cause I don't know how long it will take us to find a new doctor for her in Australia. On top of cancelling all our TV, telephone, utilities, mail, schools and a hundred other things that run our family and house. Every day we are getting closer to being ready for the movers to come, but there is always something we forget and I'm stressing I will remember a hundred other things once we are on the plane flying out of America! Currently my home looks like this.....

Some of my kitchen

More of the kitchen

My living room!

As you can see from the pictures, it's a total disaster. We have no place to keep this stuff until the movers come, except for in these rooms. All the boxes in the picture above is furniture from Ikea. We decided instead of taking our nice furniture we would just buy some from Ikea. It's easier to transport there and if it gets beat up over the next three years we'll just leave it there. I just feel for Clay, he will be spending a lot of time in our new home putting all this stuff together!
We are renting our home to a family in a ward while we are gone. We really couldn't of found more perfect people to live and take care of our house for us! But getting it ready for renters is taking a lot of work. Clay has been busy patching up holes our children put in their bedrooms walls, touching up the paint, making sure everything is in perfect condition. Our home might be messy but it's in better condition now that we are moving out of it then it has the 4 years we have lived in it!