The Best Kind of Update - Full of Pictures!

So much has been so much going on the past few weeks!

Our windows are being installed on Friday!

Our guest bedroom looks like a warzone!

Okay, it's been cleaned up since then, but we haven't started painting because we can't open our old crummy windows.

Speaking of war zones, we have had some interesting weather. Last Wednesday the Alliance Airport area was hit with a massive storm that rocked the community. Our street was littered with tree branches and our house took a slight hit. One of our turbines flew off of the roof! We have a little bit of water damage in our living room ceiling, but other than that we fared pretty well. I cannot believe that neither of our trees were touched. It doesn't even look like a single leaf is missing. We lost power for almost 3 days. It finally came back on Saturday afternoon. We are so thankful for the Wrights who let us stay with them the first night (until they too lost power) and the Dendy's for letting us borrow their mud room refrigerator and also their guest bedroom. We'd be out an awful lot of food and money otherwise!

Also last Wednesday, a city-hired contractor started digging holes on our street. We weren't notified and we didn't find out until today what they are doing. Wednesday they hit a gas main which I didn't know about until after the storm settled (which I am grateful for because storms stress me out enough as it is!). We came home from the store this afternoon and found a freshly dug hole in our front yard! I don't mind the hole so much now that I know they are installing street lights (that are MUCH needed), but none of us on the block knew what was going on. For some reason they felt the need to drive a tractor on my lawn though, which I am hoping they will fix. They apparently "fixed" it today, but as you can see from the following pictures, it still looks pretty terrible. As far as I can tell, we're the only house's lawn they did this to.

Looking at that picture makes me think our lawn is kind of scary. Forest mowed it last Monday. We got so much rain though, I'm not surprised it looks so wild!

A few weeks ago, Grace graduated from Kindergarten! She was so cute getting her diploma although she looked pretty confused about all of it. Next year she is off to Lakeview Elementary! She thankfully has stopped having seizures recently which means she has lost some benefits with MDCP. This doesn't affect me too much, I'll make a little bit less this year but work a significant amount of hours less than I did last year. It's worth it for her not to have seizures anymore!

And here are some random pictures of Grace that I think are adorable!


We broke down and got a new camera. We got a Canon SX10 and it is HUGE. Thankfully it's pretty light. I love that the view finder is "flexable". I took the picture below of Grace and I and Grace is looking at herself in the view finder. It takes amazing pictures, much better than on our old camera (which you can see in the shots of Grace above).

And because it's just so darn cute...

I guess that is everything for right now...it's been a really crazy week, we spent most of today catching up from not doing any laundry or housework for 4 days. It's amazing the things we can take for granted. Not having power impacts your life in every single way. I hope we don't have to do that again anytime soon...

Spare Oom

Our guest bedroom/workspace is affectionately called "Spare Oom". If you get that reference, I bet you are smiling! It's the smallest room besides the bathrooms and it probably needs the most work. The carpet has things melted into it and is pink in spots. The walls are smooth in some places and textured in others. The ceiling looks like a child had some fun with cottage cheese. It's just a really bad room. All of that is going to change! I'm planning a major overhaul.

First, the floors. We are going to install laminate flooring. The type I picked out is gorgeous and looks just like real wood. The color is amazing. This will also be installed in our front "foyer" area. I would love to have this put in my entire house because of our allergies, but I think we may just do our bedroom eventually. You kind of need carpet in the front room...

The walls are in okay shape, just need a new coat of paint. We are replacing the baseboards and door frames. The window doesn't have a frame, but we may install one. We decided on Behr paint (they have $5 off each gallon for memorial day, score!). The walls are going to be "Promenade", which is a sagey-green and the trim is going to be "Warm Muffin", a pale yellow. Lastly, the door (which will also be new) is going to be "Polar Bear", which just looks like white to me, but I like the name! Alexa said "Polar Bears are promenading while eating warm muffins". I wish I could name paint colors. Whoever has that job is awesome.

The closet currently has no doors, but I don't think we'll replace them right away. I am going to wait for them to go on sale. The ones I want are the mirror sliding doors. They aren't anymore expensive than the normal sliding doors, so I figured the mirrors would look really nice.

Lastly, we bought almost all new furniture for this room. Generally, it won't have a bed in it. Last year right before we closed on the house, we got a great deal on a fantastic queen sized air mattress. It's 25 inches tall and really comfy. Even my parents slept on it and thought it was great. This saves us a lot of room when we're not using the bed. My sister directed me to a great website that has all real-wood furniture for a great price. They had a special going on, so I ended up getting something for free. I bought an armoire, a nightstand and a cute little bench. I found a desk at Target for my computer.

The other thing we're doing is replacing all of our entry doors. They are all in pretty terrible shape and are rather inefficient. We're getting our new windows installed in two-three weeks, so what is the point if our doors are leaking too?

My only problem right now with all of this is - what color do I paint my front and back doors? I want to paint them blue (the guy at Home Depot even suggested blue!) and Forest is saying we should just paint them white. White is boring! Anyone have any suggestions?

So, we are going to be insanely busy coming up here, and apparently very poor too! After this project is done, I am going to be resting for a while. I think my dear husband can only take so much of this!

sprucing things up

We have had a very busy few weeks, getting things cleaned up and fixed up around here. I have a list of plans a mile long and I have no idea where to start. Forest keeps telling me "one at a time..." but I don't have any clue of which one to do first!

We have made great progress with our landscaping. We built a pathway from our gate to our deck, planted two square foot gardens and have a lovely flower bed along the house with great lighting for when we entertain outside. Our front yard needs a bit of work, we're going to lay out a new flower bed in the front. My pansies are still looking great from the winter, at least the ones that have survived the torrential downpours and hail storms. I think it's finally time to install gutters. I think we will end up doing them ourselves, unless anyone in DFW knows of a great company that can do them for us!

In other news, we celebrated our 5th anniversary last Friday. It's hard to believe that it's been 5 years already! We have had good times and sad, thankfully more good times than not. Forest surprised me with a gorgeous ring. My wedding ring is wonderful and I love it, but it's not practical for work. It also has an interlocking band, so I wasn't able to just wear the band either. I let him know what I wanted and we found one together. It's just perfect, like my dear husband :)

new new new!

Ok, so I finally broke down and got a flickr paid account. I switched my site back to Blogger. It works nicely. I haven't gotten all of my pictures on flickr that I want. That is going to take me a little bit. So, I hope you like the new template, its so fun!

My living room is all decorated for fall and so many people have been asking me to post pictures of the house, so while the living room is cute and super clean for once, here are a bunch of them!




I just realized Forest's hammer in that last one. That isn't part of my decor ;) I feel like my house is finally my home and I love the way the living room turned out. I'm sad it can't be fall all of the time, this is my absolute favorite decor for the holidays!

first post from our new house

Hello everyone, sorry I have been quiet. There have been a lot of things going on around here. Grace is in summer school so for the first part of summer I was working a bit later than usual and Forest was on a different schedule which caused him to work earlier so we were on very different schedules. Grace had two weeks off for the holidays and I had been working up to 50 hours a week! Forest is back on his normal schedule (thank goodness) and Grace starts school back up tomorrow so things should settle down just a bit...we hope.

We are almost moved out of our apartment, we just have two pieces of furniture left and we will be out for good. Things are shaping up here as well, we are slowly replacing things and trying to make things our own. I have a list a mile long of things I want to re-do or re-model but I have to take one thing at a time. Our master bathroom is currently in pieces due to a leak underneath our toilet. The warranty we have for the house paid for the least expensive part of the whole ordeal, but at least it paid for something. We have to have our entire floor replaced and our toilet is not usable until that happens. We want to replace almost the entire bathroom when we do the floor, so we may wait to do that for a little while. I had been feeling very overwhelmed with some of the issues we've found in the house but after spending several weeks here I am feeling much better. At first I kept thinking about the problems instead of the things that were going well. I am 25 years old and I just purchased my first home! I didn't stop to realize how incredibly lucky I am to say that at my age. So, taking one step at a time, we are fixing things and making things better.

I am so thankful to live across the street from the Wrights, without them I would have fallen into a heap of tears and depression 4 weeks ago. They have helped us in so many ways, I don't know if we will ever be able to repay them for their kindness. I may have to feed them for the next month to feel remotely even (and I'm sure they would appreciate that!)

I hope everyone is having a nice summer. Being married without children (especially in Texas), we don't always pay attention to what season it actually is. However, summer does mean more work for me, but my job requirements include swimming, trips to the mall and introducing the girls to the Star Wars Saga. I even have my own garage space. I live a charmed life, indeed.

last apartment bound

Well, we finally got the house today! There are a few issues that we couldn't see because furniture was in the way, but so far nothing major. Mostly just dirty walls that we are going to make sparkle with some magic erasers tomorrow. I am so thankful I have our neighbors Rebecca and John to help because tonight I would have gone nuts without them. We had to re vacuum the whole house because the woman we bought it from had her vacuum die on her earlier today. We had two vacuums going and got it done in no time. One huge bummer is that when Rebecca was vacuuming the master bathroom, she noticed that the front part of our tub was coming off. It smells like there might be some mold down there. It's just concrete underneath there so hopefully we can pull the front off and just replace it. It looks like the front board is what is the problem is. I'm completely freaking out though, as usual. It will all be ok, I just have to keep telling myself that. It will be, I know it.

We went over to Cassi and Bryce's apartment today for dinner, we thank them a million times for that. It got our minds off of the house for a bit and we didn't have to worry about making dinner tonight. It was such a huge help. It's so nice having another couple in our ward that are our age that we can spend time with, it's really fantastic. They are coming over to help us move tomorrow, so we can't thank them enough for helping us out.

It's already 11 and we have to get up early tomorrow. It's a big day, I've got to clean the walls, wait for the cable, electric and water to be turned on and get our washer and dryer installed. Forest has an interview at 11 (I know, perfect timing) and then everyone is coming over at 2 to help move. I am going to be dead tomorrow (I already feel kind of dead right now), I'm glad I have an easy job where I can hang out and relax. I hope Grace sits on my lap all day on Tuesday and laughs and smiles with me. That will make up for the crazy day I am going to have tomorrow!

8 days...

I can't help but feel this overwhelming thought of anxiousness. I am so nervous about moving. It's hard to believe we have owned this house for almost 6 weeks. It's oddly just been in the past few days that I have started to feel this way. A house is such a huge responsibility, one that I think we are more than ready to take on. I paid our first mortgage payment yesterday. By clicking that "submit" button (I love that I can pay my mortgage online!) it felt like I was moving into a completely different direction. What a great and satisfyingly decision it has been for us to purchase a home. Now comes the fun part, moving all of our stuff less than 1,000 feet to the southwest.

We have decided to move all of our big things on Monday the 16th. If anyone who reads this that is in the area can help at all that day (or send their husbands), we would appreciate it so much! We realize that it might interfere with work schedules, but otherwise we'd have to wait two weeks to move on a Saturday and we (or possibly just me) have no desire to wait any longer! As long as we can get those things that won't fit into our cars out of here, we will be happy campers and can possibly have more come on Saturday to help carry smaller less important things down with us. I noticed today that we have so many boxes, more than I thought we had. I am trying to make this as simple as possible for those kind brave souls who are going to come help us and so far, things are going pretty well. I've heard that most people who are moving a short distance tend to think they don't need to box things up, but anything that fits into a box has gone into a box. Our spare bedroom looks like we ripped off a delivery truck full of Dell Computers (Forest got the boxes from work). If anyone needs boxes in the near future, we'll have a ton!

binding my time...

It feels like the last two weeks have CRAWLED by. We closed on our house on April 30th so we are officially home owners. The only problem is that we still have 4 1/2 weeks until we can move in. I have been going crazy with spending, buying all sorts of things. As pointed out in my previous post, my couches are nested in my living room, but now they are covered with all sorts of new things. I bought a new mattress, which is also sitting in my living room in a box. It's a memory foam mattress so it's pretty tightly wrapped up and "small" but is still taking up room. Our spare bedroom looks like a storage unit and it's actually very organized, for once. We have our washer and dryer ordered and they are being delivered and installed on June 16th. I'm ready to go, so I'll sit here and wait until June 15th...

I have my schedule figured out for this entire year (through May 2009!). It's going to be a busy one too. Grace is going to school full time next year so I had to figure out how to pack in these extra 6 hours a week. I am going to be working insane hours in the summer (in one 15-day span I am working 118 hours!) and then 31 hours a week during the school year. Forest's schedule is changing for 6 weeks in June and July so he'll be back to working Mondays. He's not all that happy about it because he'll be forced to sit in traffic everyday and with these wicked insane gas prices we don't want him wasting any of that precious gas! Thankfully it's only for 6 weeks (or so they say, we'll see). Once school starts in August, I'll come over to the Dendy's at 6:45 am, help Grace get ready and then take the girls to school. I'll pick them up afterwards and work until 8. It's almost the schedule I have now, but slightly earlier. Not a problem though, I need an excuse to get out of bed in the morning or I never will.

For some reason I'm losing weight. I'm not complaining, it's good news for me, but I'd love to know what I'm doing that is causing this. I bought a book about PCOS and a meal plan that I should be eating. I have been reading through the book and am going to jump into this when we move. I'm going to stop eating certain things now and hopefully by the middle of June I'll be prepared to take this step. I am overall pretty healthy for being the size I am, but it's time to deal with this before problems start appearing. It's going to be a really tough road, but I think with the support of Forest and my friends I'll make it through the other end. I had noticed my pants were starting to look huge on me so I weighed myself the other night. I've lost 25 pounds since I looked at the scale which was probably 2 months ago. I was carrying Grace around yesterday and I had my pants nearly fall off! I have jeans that usually feel very tight when you first put them on but then stretch out in a few minutes to the right fit. I put them on today and they were too big. Then they stretched out a bit as well. I had to wear a belt to even keep them on. I am sad because I love these jeans (I have three pairs that are identical) but feel great that I'm actually losing weight! Hopefully I'll be buying new jeans soon!

a little of this a little of that

The past few days have been good. We can pretty much start breathing normally until we sign our lives away next week. Our appraisal came in at just what we needed it to and everything is good to go, so far. We are going to close on Tuesday. I am excited to get this over with but even more excited to move in! Too bad that won't be for a little while.

Speaking of houses, Jennie and Dal's house is done and they are going to close on Monday! It's such a fantastic house, I hope Gracie enjoys it and it can be a safe place for her. Both Jennie and I are so done with this apartment nonsense, we want to move in as soon as possible!

Grace's MDCP (Medically Dependent Children's Program, the program that pays for me to care for her) contract was renewed and was approved to receive 1993 hours of respite care this year over last year's 1560. That works out to about 36 hours a week. When Grace goes to school next year full time, I can only work about 30 hours a week so during the summer and vacations I am going to be glued to the Dendy family. At least I'll have a nice second home to go to! I got a raise a few weeks ago so I am overall going to be making more money this summer. Also, at the end of May I get my yearly bonus which we found out is going to be at least $400 more than they had thought. That is a very happy surprise for us!

Last night we bought a couch and a love seat from Christi Taylor, who is a newer sister in our ward. They are very nice couches, I think we will enjoy them very much. I was planning on buying brand-new couches but these are so much nicer than anything we were looking at and at the fraction of the price. She kept them in immaculate condition considering she has 4 young girls! Right now they are in our front room, looking kind of out of place! The love seat is nestled into the sofa. It's only for a few more weeks and then we can actually enjoy them!

What else is going on? I guess that covers it. We are really thankful for everything that we have been given so far this last year. It has been such an eye-opening fantastic year. About 11 months ago Jennie asked me to be Grace's caregiver and I had no idea that by doing this for her Forest and I would be able to buy our own house in less than a year! We're so blessed.

it ours!

My reaction to this should have been posted yesterday, but we were so busy that it completely slipped my mind. On April 29th we will officially be home owners! Our loan was finally totally approved yesterday. After I got off the phone with Karmen, I was basically squeaking to Grace and I said "Gracie, we got it, we got it!" and she got so super excited it just made me laugh. She makes the sad times better and the happy times EVEN better. I can't believe that we are so lucky. It's amazing. I just wanted to let you all know that. I've got to get up early tomorrow, so I'm off to bed! Night!

our first piece of new furniture

Ok, so it's not the first piece of furniture we've ever gotten new, but it certainly is the nicest. And it's for our new house. So it's the first piece of new furniture for the new house. Exciting!

We started off our day going to see Karmen down in Keller and officially signed our loan application and got that all taken care of. We headed over to Sharel's so Forest could restore her files for her. It's nice that he can help someone out with their computer needs, hopefully she spreads the word (hint hint) because we've heard too many times where someone had been taken advantage of by the guys down at Geek Squad. Those guys aren't geeks, Forest is, trust me!

So, after that we went to our bank down in Grapevine and decided to check out The Dump, just to see what types of deals we could potentially get once we move in. Too bad we didn't know that they are CLOSED on Mondays! They are only open on the weekends. Good to know for the future! We headed over to Fry's where we got a pair of Polk Audio (i.e. rather good) speakers for 75% off their price. We weren't planning on this, but we did need to get some new ones when we moved in and who can resist 75% off for fantastic speakers? I love Fry's so very much. So, while we were down in that area I figured we could check out some of the selection at the furniture stores by Grapevine Mills. We went to Ashley first, just to see what they had. We were given a coupon for 50% off the list price and figured if we found something we REALLY wanted, we could just defer payments and have them deliver it once we moved in. We ended up finding a very awesome entertainment center. It's exactly the right size, the price was fantastic and it's just beautiful. I am so glad we checked it out because we really lucked out going in there. Our order is on layaway and we can just pay it off once we close and go pick it up once we move in. I didn't want to buy anything like couches or chairs yet and I knew that the entertainment center was something that we could get pretty much whenever and I knew it was going to fit. I can't wait to get it into our new house...just counting down the days until we close!

I only wish my TV were that big...

untitled too

I had a very silly emotional moment yesterday. I was cleaning up in our spare bedroom (which is full of Dell boxes right now!) and I went to feed my two hamsters. I looked at Baby, the oldest, and she just looked really weird. She was laying funny and I thought "oh, please don't be dead!". She wasn't, she got right up when I tapped on her cage and looked at me with great annoyance. I fed her and moved down to Claire, who was also asleep. She was laying even more oddly and her eyes were partially open. I tapped on the cage and she didn't move. Our poor little Claire was gone. I kind of broke down a little bit and started crying! I know it's just a hamster, but they are like our little babies! When we got Claire, she was a blaze of gray fur. She was the fastest hamster I've ever seen, when she ran on her wheel we probably could have powered something off of it. Baby is also almost a year older than Claire is. They are two different types of hamsters, so perhaps Claire wasn't meant to live any longer than she did.

In other news, we had the inspection on the house and things are still going good. There were some cracked bricks on the west end of the house, but the inspector doesn't think they are from any foundation problems. No one will ever see the west end of the house, but just to be sure we are having a foundation expert come to look at it tomorrow. Also tomorrow, we are going to see Karmen to get the loan offically underway. I'm still a little nervous about this, but we're just giving them the information to verify what we've already told them. I'm didn't lie, so I can't imagine why we would have any issues!

I finally got my raise! It was supposed to take effect in September so on this next paycheck I am getting there will be all of the back-pay from then. It worked out for me because now that I know we're buying a house, it was like a little unintentional savings plan. I just love my job and getting paid more to do it is great. Every once in a while when things are "bad" (things most of you do for nothing, like very dirty diapers) I laugh and say that I'm really earning my money. There has not been a single day where Grace hasn't made me laugh from my very core. Next year when Grace goes to school full time, I'm going to have someway to occupy my day because I won't be working until 3! I'm thinking about going back to school and getting some sort of degree. I may never use it, but having one is something I've always wanted. We'll see! We've got a big few months ahead of us!

some good news

The house is as good as ours! We put in the offer yesterday morning and they accepted it with a few slight changes. We accepted the few changes and we are closing on April 29th. Our lease doesn't end until July 31st, so we are leasing back the house to the seller until the middle of June. So, in less than 3 months, we'll be moving into our very first home. I can't believe it. I don't foresee anything happening with our loan, things are going very well but we can't go any farther until we both have officially accepted the offer on the house. I just hope and pray that no one decides to make an offer on it and who is going to, tomorrow is Easter!

It's amazing how fast your life can change in a week. Last Friday I met with Wes to see a house in Old Town to rent. He suggested that I buy one instead and gave me Karmen's information so she could see about getting us a loan. I found out that night that it was possible. Now it's a week later and we are buying a house! I just can't believe what a whirl-wind this whole process has been. We have been SO blessed. There is no way that we could have done this without divine intervention. It just fell right into place and it's worked out better than we ever thought it could be. I need to pass these blessings on, so if anyone needs anything, let me know! Besides, I'm going to need some of your help when we move in 3 months. I'll even buy pizza!

more stress...

I was in tears today over this whole house thing. We had some miscommunication (I won't go into the entire story) and it made me feel terrible. There is a chance we might lose the house because of it, but hopefully it won't come down to that.

To make matters worse, Forest called me earlier tonight and he was stuck with a flat tire. He put on the spare and it was low on air. He drove to a gas station and of course has no money on him so he had to pay a fee to use the ATM just to get a few quarters for air. Sheesh! Yesterday I locked my keys in the car outside of Jennie's apartment. I had just gotten back from speech therapy and Jennie was in Keller at the church. I thankfully didn't lock Grace in the car. It was pouring down rain and we had to sit in the breezeway while Allstate's motor club took an hour to come rescue me. Grace was being so cute and good when she could have easily been really grouchy, especially as that cut into her lunch time. I can't believe I am such a dummy.

So, it's been a long two days. I've worked 20.75 hours in the last two days I'm glad Grace is easy to take care of and makes me laugh or I would have had an even longer two days!

ok, i love it...

Yep, it's official. I am in love with this house. It's in a great location for us (with fantastic neighbors), great price and best of all, it's a very sound house. The rooms are great sizes and laid out fantastic. I especially loved the sky light in the bathroom, very cute. It doesn't need any work, maybe just some landscaping work in the back yard. We are going to get an inspector to look through it, very throughly. I don't want anything to creep up on us once we move in. Things are going to be very tight for us so we can save like crazy. I had some plans to get some furniture in the next few months and I am willing to forgo a dining room table for a little while so we can save, save, save. Maybe with next year's tax refund! Planning to buy this house has completely changed my way of looking at money. Right now I don't really value or cherish the place we live. It's not mine, it's just this dwelling I live in and we are wasting our money on. A house though, it's ours. We are responsible for it and the things that might break in it. There are so many joys and I'm sure a few pains of having our very own place. I can't tell you what my favorite part of this whole thing will be. The huge master bedroom, my own bathroom, the backyard that we can finally get a BBQ for, a great kitchen to cook in, room to have parties, the *garage*! There are so many things we are looking forward to. Forest is going to see it tomorrow morning and give his approval. From there we'll put a bid on it and see what happens. I still don't really know what I am doing, so pray for us! We need all the help we can get!

Here is the house:

we're sold, are they?

Wes showed me the house this morning and I really love it. It needs a little bit of TLC (namely just new paint) but overall everything else is great. The floors are fantastic, the bathrooms are very well maintained, it's got a great porch for entertaining... I am sold! Now the only problem is praying it stays on the market until our lease ends. Wes is going to talk to them about us putting down the deposit and first month's rent now to save it until the first part of July. We've also talked about buying it, so we are going to be needing a lot of advice if we do something like that. We just got rid of every last bit of our debt too, so that I'm sure helps.

So, Wes gave me the name of a loan agent named Karmen. Some of you may remember her from before the split of the Trophy Club Ward. She was excited to help see if we could even apply for the loan and after running a credit check, we passed! So, that lifts a load from my mind knowing that if we wanted to buy we would be more than set to go ahead with it. We think the house on Main is insanely over priced so if we did BUY a house it would either have to be dropped dramatically in price or we would find another house in Roanoke. There are 4 bedroom homes in the Parks that are cheaper than what they want for that 2 bedroom (without a garage) in Old Town. Crazy!

So, I'm sailing through this pretty well so far and I know it's because we're living the gospel. Heavenly Father is really looking out for us on this one, he's made it more than possible for us to live our dream of finally buying a house. Now I just hope we can afford it down the road! More praying to come, I think...

stress!

There is another house in Old Town Roanoke that is for sale or rent. It would be smarter for us to buy the house, but I am still very worried about the entire thing. I was supposed to go look at it yesterday with Wes, a realtor that is on our Ward, but he found out that the owners had another lease in the works. I was pretty crushed, but figured I had 4 months left to really start worrying about it. McKay and Alexa are begging us to move in with them once our lease ends and as much as I love the Dendy's, I don't want to ruin the good thing we have going! Jennie and I were talking about this last night and no matter how much you get along with someone, strange things can happen when you are living together. A month wouldn't be enough time to worry about, but in the situation that we would be moving in, who knows how long it would take for us to find a house!

So, anyway, I get an e-mail from Wes this morning saying that the lease deal is falling apart and is still on the market. Imagine my glee. It was like a huge weight was lifted from me! Now, I still have no idea if this will be the house we end up getting, as it's still a number of months away until our lease ends, but I got on my knees and thanked Heavenly Father for at least helping me feel better and again for the strength to feel calm during this whole thing. I had a stress stomach ache last night, something I haven't had in a number of years. That is how stressed out I am feeling over this! It's really quite ridiculous!

We're going to look at the house later today. The funny thing is, I want this house so bad but I don't even know if I am going to like it. I sure hope so, or all of this worrying will be over nothing! I am glad Enrichment is tonight, I need something very fun to keep my mind off of things for a while. See some of you tonight!

I think we found our house...

I've been searching the past few weeks for homes that Forest and I could rent. I've been eying one on Pine Street for the last few weeks, which could always be a possibility as well. Last night I went searching again and found one on Main Street. The rent is actually less and it has more room. We still have 4 months until we can move in but the one on Pine has been there for at least 4. So far this house seems perfect for us. It has a garage, a huge back porch, a nice yard with lots of trees, the paint colors are adorable, the size of the rooms is perfect, I just love it!

Right now it seems like we are in a huge rut. We know we're moving in July but have no idea where to. We don't know if we'll be able to find a place suitable for us and within our price range. We're packing things up early but we are just ready to get out of here and move on! It just feels like the next 4 months are going to crawl by. I've been doing a lot of praying about this and thankfully the Lord has kept me pretty calm about it. If it's meant to be, it'll all fall into place. I hope...