Small Town Girl

Yo yo yo peepses! 
Writing you here from Santaquin Utah. It's like a glorified Honeyville and I am in love. We have a super great ward and Polynesian neighbors! 

Actually we have a few gas stations, a bank, a credit union, and a handful of fast food places, including "Santa Queen". But no grocery store?!?! Instead we get a little store similar to Honeyville mall but it is owned by a Hispanic family so you get all of the fun candies, drinks and chicharrones and whatnot. We got some tamales there yesterday and would not recommend them if you ever come to visit. I do, however, very much recommend the creamsicles. Mango and walnut are my favorite flavors so far. They have a tiny produce section and you can get milk and eggs in case of an emergency. But we are a five minute drive from Payson where there are lots of G-stores. 

As you can see we have an amazing back yard, complete with a horse and donkey (not pictured). Ok so technically the animals aren't in our yard but they like to hang out right at the fence a lot and try to eat the grass and weeds in our yard. And Daniel feeds them carrots. 

So we have BIG plans for a garden. I can’t tell you how excited I am about this!!! I want to grow onions and carrots, beans and zucchini, cilantro and tomatillos, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes and yams and kale and spinach and beets and the peas where you can eat the whole wrapper!!! We're gonna get started on it this week. 
Went to the funeral of Paul Johnson (Gpa Johnson's brother) with Grandma Sharp on Saturday. It was neat to spend some time with those relatives. I had never met any of them. The funeral was in Spanish Fork. It was very nice. The Johnson's are great people. I have an incredible heritage on all sides!

Prolly gonna get chickens too, and maybe a goat?



There are three bedrooms upstairs and two bathrooms. Basement is unfinished. The master bed and bath are a good size and the other two beds and bath are very small. Just enough space for our bed but sleeping is about the only thing I use the bedroom for anyway, so small isn't a problem for me or Josh! This is the first time in my married life having a window over my kitchen sink and oh I have longed for this day. 

I may start watching Maxwell (Josh's sister, Natalie's, 7 mo boy) full time in a couple of weeks. Natalie works mon-thurs 8-6. I think it will be fun for a while and she's offering a small monthly sum. He is a sweet, happy little guy. 

Got to see Sara Fisher Black this Friday and Mia. It was so fun to spend the day with her and all of the girls. We were going to take a selfie of all five of us girls but it never happened, so here is just Lily and Clara. We went to a fun new park in Orem. It reminds me of a cross between the all abilities park in St. George and the Whittier community center park in Logan. Everything is going great with Mia home and we are looking forward to many more play dates. I've also seen Anna twice in the last week. She is such a good friend!