Update

Well, as you have probably guessed, we have not yet started on our house (big surprise huh?). The DAY we were supposed to break ground, we found out that the city was going to charge us $9,000 MORE for the building permit so they could put in a new electricity transformer. AND we found out that the guy were buying the property from had some leans on the property. So obviously we couldn't start building if there were leans, and we couldn't afford the extra $9,000, so we started looking around for another property.

Josh's uncle owns a property in Payson that we considered. But after many prayers, Josh and I just really felt that we should keep trying for this Spanish Fork lot. Thank goodness for that 'Chappell Charm'! Josh was able to talk the city out of charging us that extra money!! Yay! So we are now just waiting for the guy to get one last lean off of the property and we can finally start. He just started working with the guy that is financing our loan and he's positive he can do it for him. So things are moving along slowly, and we are once again being tested in patience.

Other than that, we are all doing good. Josh's new business is doing really well and he has new clients in Blanding and Richfield now and he'll soon be doing two big presentations to get more clients in both SLC and Provo areas. We're really excited and thankful for how well it's been doing.

Isaac is doing SO well in school and just loving Kindergarten. We had his parent-teacher conference a couple of weeks ago and he's doing great. He's actually reading 3rd and 4th grade books now!! Parker is enjoying preschool and he's doing well with his reading too! I bet he'll be reading by the end of summer. Bryce is doing SO well in his special-ed preschool. His speech has really taken off since he started in January. It is so cute because he has learned to say "go to school" and he'll say it all day long and point out the window. He'll also say "Bus!" and "Backpack!" So we know he's loving the whole school experience. He's also really been memorizing songs. He's not so good at pronouncing all the words, but he does so well with the tunes. There is a song on the Madagascar movies that the kids like called "I Like to Move it", and Bryce has started singing that too. It's so funny! It's fun to see him coming home from school and "singing" songs that we didn't teach him.

That's about it for now! Just praying we can get things moving and get our house built!