Our New Home in South Carolina

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina!

It is weird to be writing about our first few weeks there because after being there two years we actually moved again. So I am sitting and writing down our memories from two years ago 2808 miles away!

If I am being honest and stern with myself, South Carolina never had our full selves and go at it. Other than our wonderful dance studio and our fun next door neighbors. We struggled. A lot. We moved to South Carolina for Tyler’s health and it did the trick. He healed his body in many ways during our time there. But the girls and I did not want to move and leaving Utah they would all say is still the hardest thing they’ve done. So some of our memories there have a lot of sadness and stress. If you read about our time in South Carolina it will be very mixed.

Lets see if I can think back on our first impressions in our first few weeks.

*The forests and swamps! The forests felt familiar and at home to me, I grew up in the East in the middle of forests. The swamps were a new thing! Signs warning you of alligators everywhere AND insects the size of rats! Shae got a bad insect bite just a couple days after moving and it took awhile to clear up.

**Hopping in the car & the beach being 15 minutes away! Beach trips are the farthest thing from a pain when you can grab just a towel or pack the car full of things and be there so fast. We made it a weekly tradition to have a Sunday walk every Sunday.

***Our home; when Tyler and I first saw pictures of it we knew it was the one. Not because it has the most square footage of all the options or because it was in the nicer neighborhood or had a layout we wanted. We just both saw it and felt it held happiness, kind of hard to describe. When we arrived we found out that next door was a family of all girls and they ended up being one of the brightest spots of our move. There was a lot of loneliness and having them next door ended up being the reason that was the home for us I believe. Our backyard was the county park and we walked it’s trails constantly. Here are a few pictures of us on our front porch. The colors of the home were really fun and one day when I custom build a home I will have a light blue porch roof!

(Girls on their way to their first day of dance, the best part of living there, at Creative Edge Dance Center)

After being there…less than six weeks we got our first taste of a hurricane scare, no not a first taste, a huge bit. Will post about that soon.

PS Also the neighborhood pools were pretty awesome too!

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