The Month of May

The month of May was a blur in our lives. We had just spent all of April preparing our house to put on the market to sell. We had worked so hard in hopes that we could make a good profit and then continue on with our plans to move to Idaho Falls.

 We put our house on the market at 5 pm on May 1st and had someone call that very night and show it to a client. We were very apprehensive and excited that this day we had long waited for was finally here! The real estate agent and client showed up before we had left, so out we ran so that they could come in and admire our home, or so we hoped.

 The next day around 1 pm our real estate agent called to ask if I had seen his email, which included an offer from the agent the night before. An offer that was better than our asking price. I was dumbfounded and kind of shocked that the whole experience could already be over! Dare I say it, I might have even been a tad disappointed. Ha ha ha!! We accepted that offer and decided instead to be grateful we didn't have to keep our house in tip top condition all the time and instead could focus on finding our future home.

We spent the next 2 weekends driving to Idaho Falls and viewing way too many homes, and none of them were quite right. We looked at homes for about 7 hours that first Saturday! We offered on one house, only to have the owner unwilling to come down $3,000 even though we had come up $5,000. I'm so glad we walked away from that one. My sister Wendy and her family were amazing and helped us so much by watching our kids for us so we were free to go and look at houses without the kiddos in tow. The kids would have died of boredom.

After the 2nd weekend of no luck looking for a new house, with our impending closing date only 2 weeks away, we decided to just figure out a plan B and focus on moving out and then finding our home. Over that 2 week period we had my sister Wendy who lives in Idaho Falls looking at houses for us and we tried again to offer on one house but this time without having seen it. Yeah, that one didn't end up working out either. We were working on so many things at once, getting everything boxed up, helping Aftyn finish up her school year which ended on June 2nd and getting prepared for her baptism on the 3rd, and making plans of where and who we would be living with while we were without a home. It was a crazy month. Oh and we had 3 birthdays and mothers day all thrown in there as well. Yep, it was crazy busy.

In our last week at our house, Reed managed to go to Idaho Falls for work and saw a couple houses. He found one that he absolutely loved and had my sister Wendy go and see that one too. Based off of both of their feedback, we decided to offer on this house because it sounded perfect! And I hadn't even seen it! Haha!!! On the same day we closed on our house, we walked out of Title One in Nampa and I said to Reed, "Well, we are officially homeless. I wish we could hear back on that offer soon so I could know if we have a future home somewhere."  Fateful words. 20-ish minutes later, we had a call from our other realtor that our offer had been accepted and we had a house! Woohoo!!

We drove back home, with no home to live in and hope for the day we could move into our new house in Idaho Falls.

Had to Document this somewhere

Today, Lochlan learned how to snap his fingers. No one showed him, he just started doing it while he and I were sitting on the couch. I need to get video of it because have you ever heard a one year old's little fingers snap? It's the quietest most delicate little snap I have ever heard. It's hilarious!!

Catch Up Post

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


 My life is a myriad of struggles and frustrations

and trying to appear as if I've still got everything under control

and that I am calm, cool and collected.

But let's be real.

 I'm a mess!!

 I had my birthday a few weeks ago.

We spent the day looking at 8 houses with our new realtor while Wendy and her awesome family watched our kids for 11+ hours that day.

We still haven't officially celebrated it with my kids and husband.

I had a great celebration with my sister Wendy and her family.

It's been super weird to not even think about it really

 because we've been so busy getting all the stuff done for this house.

Bronwyn's birthday/Mother's Day was also weird.

Mostly because we celebrated 2 big days on the same day.

 It. Was. So. Weird!!

   Our house is in the process of selling and closes in less than 2 weeks.

 That's SOO weird too!

And unfortunately the house we had chosen to put an offer on,

well, turns out that's not supposed to be our house.

So 2 weeks from now we will officially be homeless with 4 children and a full time job.

It's okay.

Heavenly Father has a plan and He's got this. I have faith.

Bronwyn's Lost Her 2nd Tooth

                                                 And the best part?!  She pulled it out herself!
                                                     Wow!!!!    She just kept laughing after she did it.
                                                 And kept saying, "I can't believe I pulled out my tooth!".

                                         We sure love her and are proud of the girl she's growing into.

DaVinci Night Art Project for Aftyn

                                                                  Her drawing

                                                                  Her painting station

                                                      Everything all ready for the big night!

                                                    Aftyn's painting: No input from mom at all!

                                             

This is her set up project at school that night.

         Aftyn was really proud of herself and so was I. 

  Aftyn chose a parrot (on her own) to paint and 

    stuck with that idea for a good month, never changing her mind.

     I have to say, I admire her fortitude. 

 Aftyn knew what she wanted to do and never wavered. 

                                    

The Reality of My Window Project

        What my house really looked like the weekend 

I worked on my 7 windows and Reed was out of town.

  Total chaos.

Framed

           

          We're getting ready to sell our house. 

I am doing our last big project of framing the windows.

There are 7 windows in the house.

 It cost about $25 per window. 

I'm pooped.