House Hunting

I've been house hunting like crazy! In 2 days I've seen about 18 homes and driven by several more. There is a lot of very sad homes out there and a few very nice homes out there. I've narrowed the field and I'm taking Neils and the kids with me to revisit a few to see if they could fit our needs.

However, we really don't want to rush into anything, especially since we want a home we can live in for a long, long time, so we are also looking for temporary housing until we can find that perfect home. There are a few homes in our current neighborhood that we will be checking on tomorrow to see if we can rent those for a month or two or however long it takes to find our home. So it looks like we will be moving twice. Oh well, better this way then to have 2 mortgages, right?

Thanks to all for your support and help. We may take more of you up on your offers to watch the kids and help us move. Thanks.

I Can't Believe It

Well, we had decided to take our house off the market, but hadn't quite told our realtor yet when out of the blue, yesterday we got an offer on our house. We countered yesterday and today they accepted! Total shock, but good. I'm so excited! We didn't think that it would happen, so I haven't been looking at houses lately and now begins the scramble to find the house we want. Our buyers want to be in our house the weekend before Thanksgiving which doesn't give us much time and might mean that we will need to find temporary housing before finding the home we want to buy, but it's a step in the right direction and I am thrilled! Neils hates moving and isn't quite as thrilled, but he'll come around when we find the home we want.

We are sad to leave the wonderful neighborhood, ward, and especially the great friends we've made in this area, but we won't be moving too far away, so we will definitely keep the friends we've made here. Change is good. Wish us luck. Keep us in your prayers. We'll keep you updated on the latest goings on.

Disaster Children

So this morning as I slept in a bit and Neils helped the kids get dressed, the kids decided to have some fun in Karen's closet with all the extra hangers I have. This is their creation. They were so proud.

More Halloween Fun

Well, we made it! We made it through 5 different trick-or-treating events. 2 last weekend one at Karen's preschool, daddy's work and finally the big one around the neighborhood. It was fun and we have way too much candy now. The kids have been on a sugar rush for a week now, I'm tempted to make it all disappear. I guess it will be gone soon enough and kids should enjoy the spoils of Halloween. Karen wore 3 different costumes this year and Michael wore one. Here are a few pictures. Here's Karen's fairy costume at Preschool.

Here we are at Neils' work

Here the kids are ready to go trick-or-treating on Halloween night

And off they go. Isn't it cute that they are following Daddy so well.

There are no pictures of me because I didn't dress up this year. Oh well, maybe next year.

Halloweening

We've had a very fun Halloween filled weekend. Yesterday was our ward's trunk-or-treat Halloween party at our church house and then tonight was my sister-in-law's Halloween party at their church building. They had carnival type activities at both parties, dinner, cupcakes, cakes, plus trunk-or-treating at ours and trick-or-treating in the classrooms at our in-law's. Very busy, very fun and the kids loved it. They were bouncing off the walls by the time we got home with a candy buzz, but they loved it. I'm so done with Halloween and we still have another week until the actual holiday. Oh well.

Here are the kids all dressed up in their costumes at the party. Karen and Michael are "ruff"ing in the picture though it sounded more like a roar.These are their cousins

And this is a close up of the kids faces. Did I do good?

I was thinking that with all the candy they got at these two events that we don't need to take the kids out trick-or-treating on Halloween. I mentioned this to Neils and he said that he still wants to take the kids around the neighborhood. Must be his inner-child needing to get out and celebrate the holiday. Well, at least we'll have candy for the next three months or more.