Another loop...

It's impossible to write all my feelings and thoughts of the experiences we've had for the past 6 weeks living in Farmington. I'm so grateful with how smooth of a transition this has been for all of us. As hard as it was to imagine us moving and how hard it was to actually move (seriously, our worst move ever), I marvel at how quickly it has become home and how living in Herriman feels like it was a dream and that we never lived there. Farmington really feels like home. After our first Sunday (5 days after we moved here) the kids all said that they loved it here and don't miss Herriman. Wow! We were shocked but it was just a confirmation that we really needed to move and have this experience. The kids then started saying they didn't want to switch wards, which we would have to since our rental is not in the same ward as our building lot. Same stake but different ward. I was approached by someone a few days after moving in that we should consider moving into the Peterson's house but after searching for their house it wasn't for sale so I didn't think too much of it. Flash forward to July 1st, Andy and I met with the 2nd counselor in the bishopric for callings (Sunbeams for me, YM 1st counselor for Andy) and as we were leaving he said, you know you should really look at buying the Peterson's house. We talked with him trying to figure out some information and left. When we got home Andy just kept saying I think I'll call the Peterson's and just talk to them, what could it hurt? Next thing you know Andy and I are standing on the Peterson's porch and little did we know we were going to be thrown the biggest loop yet. Long story short after 3 weeks of talking, praying, fasting, and going to the house multiple times we decided to buy their house instead of building! As we've looked back over the past 8 months Heavenly Father was definitely orchestrating something we weren't expecting. My first thought after we decided to definitely buy the house was that we shouldn't have bought the building lot. But I quickly saw that had we not bought that lot, we wouldn't have rented this house (the kids wanted to live close to where we were going to build so it would be an easier transition), which means we wouldn't have been in this ward and if we weren't in this ward we wouldn't have known about the Peterson's house. There are no coincidences. This was how it was supposed to be and we can't be more excited.