We had found out on around June 22nd that our house purchase wouldn't be happening until the 14th of July. This was a hard pill to swallow as we had planned out everything to a 'T' for the previous 3 weeks but hadn't seen another 3 weeks on top of that. It really took the wind out of my sails for 2-3 days. And then I made another plan. I split up the kids between a bedroom in my parents house and my parents tent trailer out by their shop. I slept out in the tent trailer next to Lochlan every night and had various bed mates, but mostly Mirren and Aftyn joined me in the other beds available in the tent trailer. Reed and Bronwy, who made frequent nightly bathroom trips and still does, slept inside on the guest bunkbed. We were grateful for the beds and accomodations we had and I tried to look on it as an adventure. Over the next 3 weeks, my sisters kids next door and my girls spent lots of time making lots of trouble outside at Grandpa's house. Glasses were lost, tree branches were used as weapons, and canal covers were even disassembled and luckily their parts were found so they could be put back together. It was quite an eventful few weeks. We had our weekly trip to the laundromat to make it even more fun. Or not. It was pretty obvious each week as I crammed all our clean clothes back into the hamper that had been full of dirty clothes that I was just surviving. I laughed as I watched people meticulously fold their clothes and mine were just being sorted and divvied back up to the right person back at home. We had more important things to think of than wrinkled clothes.
With my bathroom projects, I painted 7 bathroom walls, 2 sets of bathroom cupboards, and all the trimwork, replaced 1 light fixture, helped mount a new medicine cabinet/mirror, put up 2 sets of towel hooks, created artwork for the walls, and replaced 2 electrical outlets and 1 light switch so that they would be bright white instead of nasty yellow. I wish I had taken pictures because those bathrooms look AMAZING!! I'm so glad I could use all my extra energy to make those bathrooms more beautiful for my parents.
There were lots of fun things we planned to help the time go more quickly, like the 2 times we went to the movies as a family and watched Beauty and the Beast and Despicable Me 3. I can't remember the last time I took all the kids to a movie but on the whole it was fun. Mirren got a little scared in both movies and Lochlan only cared about the popcorn and once that ran out, he was basically done. Bringing a blanket and binkie for him to cuddle with helped a lot in one of the movies, so there's a good idea for later. I also took Aftyn who earned a free ticket to Roaring Springs and Bronwyn who we gave a ticket to for her main birthday present to Roaring Springs on July 3rd. It was a madhouse but it was fun! We took my niece Mia with us since she too had a ticket and she was the only one in her family who had one and it needed to be used before it expired. She brought a friend and we had all the making of a fun day! We split up at Roaring Springs and the girls and I had a blast, except for that time I almost drowned Bronwyn in the Lazy River by putting my weight on the side of her tube. :( That was scary!! But we learned and that didn't happen again. We also ran into our friends from our ward, Brayli and Broxon and their mom. That was a fun surprise! Best part was that no one got a sunburn because we were very thorough in our sunscreening except for on my back where Aftyn applied it for me and missed a couple of spots. But none of the kids got sunburns so I was totally okay with that. One day we also went to the church orchard and got our favorite Ranier cherries. We ate those for a few days and then I cut up the rest and chucked them in the freezer, to be moved with us so I could use them in later in my favorite cherry recipe: fruit smoothies! We went to lots of garage sales and got clothes for the kids and furniture for our deck at the house we would eventually be moving into.
Finally the week came that we were going to get our house! We had our signing day all set but unfortunately our realtor and her office were, frankly, having communication issues and when signing day came around I was freaking out. I called our realtor, her assistant, our realtor again, her assistant again and finally got ahold of her assistant to finally get some of my concerns talked about. We ended up being about 20-30 minutes late to our signing because I was not signing papers for a house we weren't even sure everything had been taken care of like it needed to be by the sellers. I was literally crying as we walked into Title One. And I vowed never to use my realtor in Idaho Falls again, sadly. So don't ask for a referral, I haven't got one. Now the realtor I sold my house with in Nampa, I would use over and over again. Loved him. I would totally refer him. Anyhow, the lady who helped us at Title One helped calm me tremendously as she explained everything exactly the way I needed to hear it, so we signed. And then on the way home, found out that the sellers were not signing until the next day. So even though we had planned on driving up that day with all our stuff packed into our moving van and our family's van, we had nowhere to stay that night. Our realtor's assistant even tried to ask the buyers if we could just stay in the house that night, which admittedly I would never allow for a house I was selling, but we were desperate. And not surprisingly, they said no. And we figured this all out about 30 minutes before we were going to be arriving in Idaho Falls with all our stuff. So luckily my awesome sister Wendy let us stay at her house, just like I knew she would. I was an emotional basket case. Really. What a day it had been. The best part of the day was that my nephew had just received his mission call so we were just in time to be there for when he opened it up. That was a great surprise!
The next day was just a waiting game since we didn't know when the sellers were signing, and time was just ticking away. I was feeling so impatient, just wanting a dang house to live in!! To kill time, I took the kids to go see a movie again, since that's a great way to just think about nothing for about an hour and a half. We went and saw Despicable Me 3 again. What can I say, it was funny! Reed stayed at my sisters house and worked. Literally, as soon as the movie ended, I got a text saying that my realtor's assistant had our keys in her office and I could come pick them up. So I did! I was so excited!! Until the assistant told me that I couldn't actually go to the house until they received payment from the bank and the house was officially ours. *Sigh* Are you seeing a pattern here? I swear, it was just one hurdle to jump after another. But finally, after Reed took the kids to go get us lunch, I got the phone call that we could go move into the house. Hallelujah!!! It was Friday, the 14th of July, exactly 3 weeks from when we were supposed to move into the house originally. That night my sister Wendy, her husband Jeff, and her kids Jake and Dillon all showed up at our house on a warm night to sweat our way through unloading our moving truck. Never have I been more grateful to have a house to move our things into. Really. We met our next door neighbors that night who happen to have 2 little girls Bronwyn and Aftyn's ages, and they are also members of the LDS church which is neat. The next 2 weeks were a blur of unpacking boxes, setting up bedrooms, getting the internet (which is another funny story) and slowly getting settled in to our new house.
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