Great Possibilities

Life has changed so much in just one week. Last Sunday we were telling everyone at church that we were going to take our house off the market and stay here for another few years. We were even planning on finishing the basement and fixing the yard. Now, just one week later, we have sold our home and are planning to move in just two weeks. Crazy!

We've even found a house that we love in a neighborhood that we love and we put an offer on it yesterday. If our offer is accepted, the people living there have even said that they can be out of their house the same weekend we are moving out of our house. It's incredible. There would only be a couple of days or at most a week between moving out of our house and into that home....if it all works out that is. Now we wait to see if our offer is accepted. We should find out tomorrow. The house isn't too far away from our current home either, just down about 5400 S and 5600 West.

Life sure is lively right now and full of possibilities. If this doesn't work, I'm sure we'll find something else. I can tell that the Lord is watching out for us and leading our lives.

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.