New Address:
Davie and Melanie Helm
3295 E Sweetwater Springs Dr
Washington, UT 84780
I know that it's been quite awhile since I last posted. But, I hope you will all understand. The last two weeks have been a little busy getting settled in our new home in sunny St. George. We moved down here on August 11th and the kids started school on August 12th.
It all happened extremely fast and hence the reason for my lacking in posting anything. We had been coming down quite a bit to help with Davie's mom and step-dad. I know I posted before that his mom just started her second round of chemo and his step-dad was having problems with his heart. On the third weekend down here and after Davie had spent two weeks solid down here with his mom, we started to entertain the idea of moving down here to be closer to them so we could assist them in any way we could. On August 3rd, we actually looked around at some neighborhoods and found a house that we thought might work for us. I went back up to Salt Lake on the 5th and that is when we found out the schools started on August 12th down here. We made the final decision to move and the next thing you know, here we are. We were able to pack our entire house and move it down here in about six days making several back and forth trips. Jack and Mckenna and Davie worked so hard packing up the house and driving back and forth and Kira and I were here in St. George unpacking. For the next several days, I worked by butt off unpacking the rest of the boxes, getting the kids settled and ready for school including school shopping, and making sure our home was comfortable. This last weekend, we unpacked the last of the boxes and organized the garage. Needless to say, I'm quite exhausted. But, I am looking forward to just enjoying life from here on out. I love our little house. It's not really that little, but it's all on one floor and we have scaled down from 7000 square feet to just under 3000 square feet. It's a big difference. Our lot is quite small as well. We are living in Coral Canyon, which is actually in Washington City and it's only about 5 minutes from Davie's mom.
The kids are doing great. Kira is not quite sure she likes it down here, but she is doing well in school. She is attending Pine View High School. She has already made it into Concert Choir and is also taking some advanced placement classes. On top of that, she is in driver's ed and she will have her license by November 5th. So watch out...lol. Zack is in the 6th grade and attending an intermediate school. Down here, the 6th and 7th grades are in a school all by themselves. He is really enjoying it. He is in band this year and is playing the drums. We just picked up his percussion set today and he played his practice drum all afternoon. He actually told me that he was glad that there wasn't any recess this year. He is making friends and says that he just doesn't like the heat. (It's averaged about 102 degrees every day, which for him is sooo hot!) Little Miss Makayla started kindergarten and loves school. Our house is only about 10 houses down from the elementary school here and she can't wait to go to school every day. The first two weeks of school they were doing "Color Days" and so they would have to dress in a different color every day and then everyone took turns taking a snack that correlates with that color. She picked BLUE....yeah, try and find a BLUE treat to take. Not an easy task. But, she had so much fun every morning picking out her outfits that would match the color of the day. She has many little friends and it's so adorable because every day that we pull up to the kindergarten playground, her little friend comes running out and they hug eachother and say "let's go play friend!"
Well, we are all doing great and miss you all very much!
