Klamath Falls

We made it! We got here on Thursday, March 1st.  The drive was scary at times including ground blizzards, slick roads, and a complete stop on I80 with the view of sliding trailers on semi trucks in front of us, but we made it without an accident.   Our cars were filthy!  We have settled into our rental house.  It is at a resort about 20 minutes out of town which is a bit of a pain, but very beautiful.  There are a couple of bird feeders outside our house and we have enjoyed watching the different species of birds that come and eat.  We even got an enormous gray squirrel that obviously has not missed too many meals this winter. We have seen lots of black tailed deer and love seeing the variety of trees and other vegetation.

The kids started school yesterday and seemed to have a good day.  It is smaller that their school in Cheyenne and will take some adjusting to, but they seem to like it so far.  The kids are jumping into activities.  Ben starts cub scouts on Thursday and Emma has Young Women's on Wednesday and Eliza has Activity Days also on Wednesday.  We are looking into registering the kids for spring soccer.  Hopefully we can close on our house here soon.  We hit a snag in some of our paperwork for our mortgage.  We were going to close on the 12th, but it looks like it will be at least a week later.

We were asked to speak in Sacrament meeting on Sunday, so we are jumping into the ward here as well.  The ward is smaller than our ward in Cheyenne and the primary is a lot smaller.  We feel really welcomed and feel like we will be needed.

Dan's work had a potluck and invited me to attend.  It was good to meet his coworkers.  I think we are really going to love it here.  Dan and the kids were able to see the house I picked out on Friday and everybody seemed to be happy with it.  We drove around and I showed them the outsides of the houses I didn't choose and everyone wisely agreed that I chose the best one.

We are excited to be here.  It is so beautiful and we feel blessed to have the opportunity to be in this little piece of heaven on earth.  It feels like we are removed from the world just a little bit.  Shopping will be a little bit of a challenge, but I have hound that when it is harder to get stuff, the stuff becomes less important and you have a less materialistic community.  Hopefully my theory is correct as we settle into this area where we hope to live a very long time.