Merry Christmas (Early)

We have been so blessed this year. Despite the fact that things haven't worked out quite as easily as we thought they should we know all things happen for a reason and when things are meant to be they tend to work out more easily. We have so enjoyed our time in the Hart's basement but will be very excited to have our own house again. You don't know how much you will miss something until you don't have it anymore.

This past weekend we went to Cedar City to look at houses since Steve needs to be there to start work on the 4th of Jan. We are so excited about his new job and we knew we needed to get the ball moving quickly in order to find a place to live. While down there we found a house that we really liked and wanted to make an offer on. We needed to get some paper work to the bank first to be sure we were good to make an offer so first thing on Monday morning we found the papers that we needed and Steve took them to the bank only to get there and find the man he was working with had just left to do a loan closing. He left the paperwork and headed home. We finished up some Christmas shopping and got home just before time to pick up the kids from school and Paityn was not a happy camper so I stayed home to settle her down and Steve went to pick up the kids and call the bank back. Finally at about 3:30 in the afternoon we were ready to make an offer on the house, so we called our agent and gave him the details and he said it would take him a couple of hours to get everything emailed to us to look over. It took a little longer and about 6:30 the papers were in the email. We started printing them off and getting dinner and I started reading them. By the time the kids were in bed FHE was over and the papers were read and signed it was almost 9:00. Steve ran the papers to Kinkos to fax them back so the agent could talk to the people at 9 in the morning. we were patiently waiting this morning thinking it shouldn't be too late that we would hear back if they people were meeting with the agent at 9 so we started refreshing the email waiting for a reply nothing came so finally around noon I called Steve and told him he better call me if our agent called him and he said dang it I was hoping he had called you and you were calling to tell me you had talked to him. At this point we started losing hope that things were going to work out but at about 1:30 Steve called me and said he talked to the agent and the people accepted our offer!!!!

We are so excited we are going to be the proud owners of a new house (for us) and some chickens by the 1st of February!!!! Kodie you will have to give me some pointers. They were really nice and asked if we had small kids and so they decided to leave their little swing set and trampoline as well. Their kids are all teenagers now. I think this is one of the best Christmas presents we could get. Hope you all have a great Christmas as well.