One step closer....

to Australia! I'm slowly working my way up to being excited. Everyone loves Australia...so why was I not excited from the get go? well, aside from the fact that I'll be away from my family...I'm a Utah girl at heart. My dream home is in the mountains, not on the beach. I prefer the lake over the ocean...I would rather live in the cold and crisp air of the Wasatch front than the hot and humid sun down under...I prefer the slow "stop and smell the roses" kinda life rather than the fast "gotta keep movin" ways of Sydney....i prefer stayin at home, watchin dvds and playing board games rather than goin out and clubin hard core...but I'm working on opening my mind because change is good.

I always hoped to put my daughters in volleyball or basketball or soccer, but what do they have in Australia....netball. uh?...I've never seen a game of netball and they don't play netball in the Olympics...and those two qualities alone have pretty much damned that sport from my mind. But hey... they can be surfers! I just hope they didn't inherit my crippling fear of sharks.

We got our passports today...me and baby sia have big smiles on our pics (I found out later that you aren't supposed to smile...so that guy at Walgreens, the one who took our photos...and the one who told us to smile, needs to get fired) but its okay because David and Maile are serious enough to balance it out...I think that's why the passport people decided to accept our pictures. The arrival of the passports marks yet another step towards our big move down under. It's all surreal...I don't think it'll hit me till a kangaroo kicks me in my gut, a shark bites off my arm, my kids are wearing cutie uniforms and my husband is straightening his hair and wearing some hella tight shorts and a tank...not so cutie.

Now....off to buy those overpriced airline tickets...(damn delta...how come you keep rejecting my app?...huh?!)

adios