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Home Sweet Home

To me, Home Sweet Home is a place where you feel like you are safe, a place where you can kick of your shoes and feel like you belong. We have moved several times in our nine plus years of marriage, and each time with each place we have lived I have felt like I was not just somewhere, but home. Right after we got married Ray sold his small home in Hurricane, and we moved to Garland Ut. We lived in an older home with lots of creeks, and I wondered how we could ever feel like it was ours being so far from family, and not knowing anyone in the area. Well the moment pictures were hung, and beds were made we felt like we were home. We left Garland after a year, and moved back to Hurricane. Again we quickly felt like we were home, but had the added bonus of having family around. A year after moving to Hurricane, we moved to Cedar City. Our place of residence was a very small 2 bedroom apartment, and fit 2 people and an office very snugly. This time it took a bit longer to feel like we were home, it didn't feel like we could kick our shoes off with our being scolded. We were not allowed to hang pictures, and the landlord and his wife let us know quite often that it was their place and we were just tenants. Then we found that with sticky hooks, and locked doors we were able to feel at home because we were able to hang our pictures, and keep the landlord out. Well after Ray did a year of School at SUU, and was ready to start trucking, we decided that it was time to move North. We ended up moving to Ogden Ut. We found a place right off Washington and 14th street. It was a busy part of town, and as hard as I tried, I had a very hard time feeling safe. I spent a lot of time alone while Ray was out on the truck, and spent a lot of nights double and triple checking the door before backing up the stairs to bed. Crazy I know, but it is just the way it had to be. I did however end up falling in love with the place, and feeling very much like it was a home sweet home before we moved after being there for 2 years. After Ogden, we moved to Brigham City into a three bedroom 1 bath apartment until we could get settled and used to Rays new job at the Hospital. The apartment was cozy, but the land lady was a mean as a rabid dog. She did not like me at all, but seemed to think the world of Ray. So after a bit we cozied right into living in Brigham, and found our little place to be ours. After a year in Brigham, we decided that the place we loved the most was the place we started out, and bought our home here in Tremonton. We fell in love with our home the first time we saw it, and felt that as long as we loved this home as much as we had loved our rentals it could be our own Home Sweet Home. So this is where we are, and have been here 3 years. We love the town, and the small town feel it provides for our growing family. We invite all who pass by to come kick off your shoes and visit for a while. The door is always open to the ones we love.