CHANGES

Who would have thought I would ever get back onto this blog? I have a private Evans Family blog that I contribute too and so this one got put on the back burner. So much has changed over the past 3 years that it will take way too long to give an update. So I will try to just start from now and see if I can incorporate the family changes as I go.
The most exciting thing to happen is that my youngest child graduated from high school and Graeme and I are officially "empty nesters" YEAH!!! Now I love my kids but after having kids in the house for 42 years and getting kids through school for the past 37 years, I am ready to enjoy the next phase of our lives. Our youngest, Emily, will be starting college but for all intent and purposes she is really on her own. She is going to be living on campus and I wont be around to hound her to get up for classes or tidy her room etc. Also our second youngest, Kelsey has been living in Australia for the past 3 years. She studied for her beauty diploma and has been working as a beauty therapist for the past 18 months but she is now ready to go back to school and study some type of social work. (So technically, we still have 2 in school)
Graeme and I are planning on doing some traveling over the next 6 months so I will hopefully give updates on where and when we do that. One place we will be going to is Finland where our son Steven and his family are now living. They moved to Helsinki 7 months ago and will be there for a total of 3 years before moving back to the USA.
Right now we have 3 sons in Arizona, one daughter in Colorado, one daughter in Utah, one daughter in Australia and one son in Finland. So you might guess we have some interesting trips planned in the coming 6 months or so.
We also have a big move coming up. After living in Utah for the past 6 1/2 years, we have decided to move back to Arizona. We sold our house in North Salt Lake and for the past 6 months have been living in an apartment in downtown SLC. When the lease is up at the end of the year we will move back to our home in the desert in Arizona. I am so excited. I love our home in Arizona. It is so quiet and peaceful and beautiful.
Now I dont want to "overdo" this post so I will close here and get back to it tomorrow ( well we shall see!)