Goodbye house

Right  now the only thing in our house is random stuff that needs boxed, a few kitchen things, clothes and some odds and ins. And a sofabed couch. We will be camping out in a way the next week until school ends. 

We are closing on this house next Friday and continue to be homeless.

These were the listing photos of our house and it's been fun to see how much this house has changed the last seven years. 

Can't wait to start decorating another house....just wish I knew which one that was. We've made 4 offers on 4 different houses and haven't gotten any of them. 

It's not going to be the summer any of us planned but hoping and praying we can find a house and get settled soon. 

Lollipop store

In the midst of packing up the boys closet I found a stash of lollipops Colin had been storing from school. 

Colin isn't a candy or sweets person so candy for him stays around forever. 

Joel and Norah love sweets. 

Colin capitalized on that and told Norah that he'd give her a lollipop if she cleaned his room. She very happily cleaned his entire room while Colin sat back and watched.

The next day after school Colin came home and announced that the lollipop shop was open for business. This time he had Joel agreeing to not leave dirty clothes all around the room in exchange for a lollipop. (Colin loves things neat and tidy and in it's place) Joel agreed and when he threw off his clothes before bedtime Colin reminded him of the agreement they had. 

I told Colin I would keep his lollipop supply fully stocked from now on. 

New house

Norah is calling this storage unit her new house. And to be fair we did tell her when we were boxing up her stuff that it would to with us to the new house... 

We sold our home in two weeks! TWO WEEKS! Crazy since it took so long last time. We are feeling really blessed because right after we went under contract three other houses on our street went on the market for $10/$20k less! We close in three weeks and then will be homeless. We are putting our stuff in storage and going to stay with mom and dad for a few weeks...hoping it's just a few weeks and I'm sure they are hoping it's just a few weeks. I probably shouldn't have signed the boys up for swim team and Norah for ballet here this summer but had no idea our house would sell that fast. We will all just be in the car a lot this summer. 

And hoping not for too long. We put in a few offers but haven't gotten the houses so we keep looking and praying something would come up. We know what area we want to be in and it would mean an hour less of driving a day for Brent which will be nice. Just hoping a house without an inground pool three steps from the sliding doors opens up. (Seems like most have inground pools and since Norah just jumped off the side of the pool the other night I'm not living with a pool.  the lifeguard was thankfully closer than we were)

It's sad to leave our neighbors. We told them to come with us - we've loved living next to them. It's really nice to just let the girls go back and forth all day. And Joel follows too! I know we can still do play dates but it's so nice to just be so close. Praying we can move into a neighborhood with lots of kids. 

So we are praying our house comes up soon but also not willing to settle too much. And also praying our house closes on time. The new owners are ridiculous with what they want us to do. 

Adventure Park

 Ant Ants in town and she took the boys for their birthdays to the Adventure Park - its a ropes course up in the trees next to the aquarium. 

 Joel climbs everything. Trees, fences, the top of our shed...so our climber one would think would be all over this.  But he was nervous.  But he did it and it was really cool to see him get his confidence as the afternoon went on. 

 Colin was all about this and loved this belated birthday gift.  He would've stayed forever and keep going and going.  He would just fly through all of them and made it look so easy.  And check out those muscles on his arms! 

 

Thanks Ant Ant!  Such a fun afternoon.