Good Bye New York

After 8 years of many adventures we made a rather quick decision to leave NYC and move to Utah at the end of September. When we told the girls that we were moving to Utah, they were completely overjoyed! Olivia had a reaction similar to someone who had just won the lottery. She asked if we were going to live in a house, something she had always hoped for. When I told her we would be living in a house and we would probably have 2 cars that was more than she could handle...if I only I had a video camera nearby to document her joy.

Since we have been in Utah there are many things that I have observed during this transition from city life to the suburbs.
- some things my girls have had to learn...you need to be careful in a parking lot, neither one of them know how to open a door here (all the door handles in NYC were levers instead of knobs and they still don't know how to open a door knob).
Having the subway be Lyla's only form of transportation, driving around in a car and being strapped into a carseat is a new thing. After owning a car for a week or so we came home and Lyla said "could we please never drive in a car again."
Olivia started the 1st grade again here in Utah and was so excited to come home one day and announced some astonishing news. She was so excited to share with us that her teacher was a Mormon. I asked how she knew and she told me she saw the "Gospel Library" app on her teachers iPad.
One day we were pulling into our driveway and Lyla asked why we were stopping here and I told her it was because this was our house. She replied that this was not our real house and that NYC was really were we lived.
The other day we were driving to pick up Olivia from school and we were driving toward some huge snow covered mountains. I commented "Look Lyla aren't those snowcovered mountains beautiful. Do you think those mountains are beautiful?" Lyla quickly replied, "No I don't like them, I skyscrapers are better."
When we first moved into our house, Lyla would sprint back and forth the length of the house...she found this to be a lot roomier than a 1000 square foot apartment.