Utah is different than California in a lot of ways besides the obvious mountains and cooler air. In California, we had a neighborhood cat. Here, we have the neighborhood deer. The are 5 of them. It looks like a family. I don't know anything about deer, but there are three small ones and two larger ones. One has antlers, so... a family to me it is. We see them everyday, often in our backyard and sometimes napping under our trampoline. We saw these guys on our way to the bus stop. I love it! Our neighbors say we will get sick of them, but I love Paige interrupting dinner conversation with a loud "DEER!" and pointing into our backyard.
One night we woke up to a really loud sound in our backyard. We looked out and saw what looked like a deer with his antlers stuck in a small tree. He was thrashing around pretty violently. Jason ran down stairs and turned on the back lights. The deer stopped and pulled his antlers out of the tree and just looked at Jason like "What are you looking at?" They had a stare off for a minute and then slowly the deer turned and walked away, leaving the tree in pieces on the ground.
The other thing I am still getting used to is that you can get church books or materials just about anywhere. On a quick trip to Ace Hardware we saw the Visiting Teaching Message for sale at the register for $2.50! So funny to me! There are signs near neighborhood entrances reminding you about an upcoming ward activity or welcoming home a missionary.
Another thing we have loved, is the freedom to ride our quads and go cart around.
The girls love to go for a ride when ever they can.
Austin and Jessica ride the go cart or their quads to friends houses. Jessica was out riding her quad one day when we say a helicopter circling around the neighborhood. It was black and had a gold star on it. We assumed it was a police helicopter. We were concerned and called Jessica to have her come home. We watched as the helicopter landed just behind our house over the hill. There are some very nice homes behind us and we were concerned that maybe there was a break in or something. One of Jessica's good friends lives near where the helicopter landed so she called to see if everything was okay. Her friend said, "Oh that's just (I can't remember the name). They live there." Jason and I started cracking up. We are not in California anymore.
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haha. I love all of this post. So glad you guys are in UTAH NOW so that I can see you whenever I come home! Love you so much! House looks awesome, too. Yay.
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