Jason Packham

It’s been a long but fantastic weekend. We closed and moved in to our home. So many boxes. So much clutter. But we’re getting there little by little. The kids are happy and we’re loving the extra room. We’ve had many nice neighbors drop by to welcome us to the neighborhood. We went to church on Sunday and everyone was very welcoming. Very similar to our last ward, lots of young families but with a good mix of older folks as well.

Internet, TV, phones, utilities: all set up.

It feels so good to be getting settled again, and very nice to be sleeping in my own bed again. Life is great.

I drove from Herriman to Portland on April 22 of this year. Since that time I’ve felt like quite a vagabond:

• 68 non-consecutive nights in an extended stay hotel in Portland.
• 32 nights in a Residence Inn (28 in Sandy, UT; 4 in Folsom, CA)
• 5 nights in a beautiful cabin at Bear Lake, ID with my family
• 4 nights at a fantastic condo in Park City, UT with our great friends
• 1 night in a dumpy hotel in Battle Mountain, NV
• 1 night at the SLC Marriott Downtown (very nice)
• 1 night in a tent with Thomas at the Spruces campground
• 1 night at my in-laws in Placerville, CA (always nice)
• 14 nights in my own bed in my old home which we moved out of on June 18
• 33 nights at my mom’s home in Provo, UT
• 21 flights
• Long drives:  Herriman to Portland, Provo to Bear Lake, Bear Lake to Sacramento, Portland to Sacramento, Sacramento to Provo

Needless to say, very excited to move in to our new home next Friday.

So much for that last post from over a year ago. So much has changed since then. We are staying in Utah.  I got a job working for the LDS Church, working at the same building where I worked for Intel for the past 9 years.  We are buying a home back in Herriman.  We are very happy things have worked out.  It’s been a long and crazy summer, one that we’ll never forget, but we’ve been very blessed and feel that we are where we’re supposed to be.

Dad & I went on a great adventure last weekend. We went with a group of Dad’s friends down to Zion National Park and did some canyoneering (Pine Creek) and hiked “The Narrows.” It was an amazing three days.

See here for some pics:

Zion Narrows

If you’ve got Google Earth, check out this .kmz file I put together.

Here are a few other pictures from our family during September:

September 2007