February Recap

January was never ending but February flew by in a blink of an eye. I posted about our house update and unfortunately, we didn’t have any progress in February. The rent house is starting to wear on me and us. Chad mentioned that we are living it clutter and for him to say that it is a pretty big deal lol. But at the same time we are extremely grateful for this opportunity and do not want to take this time for granted.

  

February was another rainy month so anytime it was sunny and a little warm out we were outside. My babies LOVE being outside so these rainy/cold months are kicking us in the rear.

We also started really trying to work with Grady on his letters. We decided that we were going to do activities every week and work on a letter a work. We have gotten to the letter C and have fallen off the wagon a little bit but Grady does love these activities, so we will have to do some more.

Grady has become the little photographer and I have to say, his work is really good.

Chad had a work event so we had a kid free night and was able to get all fancy. I will admit that I’m not a fan of the silence. I guess you have to have silence to appreciate the noise.

I took off for Valentine’s day and we had so much fun together. We baked cookies and delivered them to the firefighters, probably going to be an annual tradition from now on. We also did a little craft and made treats for the birds. So much fun but boy cookies with 2 little ones is work!

I have been obsessed with organization, anyone heard of “The Home Edit”. Their book is on my wish list and I cannot wait to listen to their audible. Anyways we have been purging everything and I am beside myself on some of the things that made our move back in August. I cannot wait to get my hands on organizing the new house but in the mean time I will focus on our freezer, fridge, car, etc.

Random pictures from February: (Can you tell someone is excited for Baseball and someone else is a little sassy diva)

Life Update

This post is a work in progress. I created some videos explaining our journey and was going to create a you-tube channel to document the process, but I chickened out. Who knows I may still upload them later but right now I feel too awkward.

I touched on what’s been happening over the past few months, but I haven’t gone into depth. Hold tight this may be a long post. As you know Chad got accepted in nursing school last April. We had been going back and forth about putting on house on the market even looking at pieces of property well before then and made a couple of offers but they didn’t come back in our favor. With the news of Chad going back to school we knew that this was the time to make the decision to finally putting our house on the market. We put our dreams of buying some land and building again to the side and started looking for some “fixer uppers”. With disappointment after disappointment we didn’t feel comfortable with anything that was on the market at the time and with our house being sold we decided to lay off the search and put it in God’s hands. We got a rent house and move in at the beginning of August.

August 14^th rolled around, Chad was at work and randomly got on the internet to look at listings. Mind you that we had been on the internet every single day 2-3 times a day looking at listings for months and decided to take a break from it just a few weeks prior. There was a listing for a piece of property in our price range and the location that we wanted! The listing was probably posted around noon that day and Chad got on the internet around 1:30. We drove by the land after work and made an offer immediately. I guess you can say it spoke to us. They didn’t get back with us until the next day and Chad and I were on pins and needles, but they ACCEPTED!! And come to find out all parcels sold within 24 hours, crazy.

The closing process was a dousy. We discovered that there was a dried up gas well on our property so after a few meetings with lawyers, the sellers, agents, etc. We got a deal worked out but while we were figuring out our negotiations the sellers were having some legal problems with the title. It took a few months, but we finally got it all figured out.

We already had the construction loan process started so when we officially closed on our piece of property we contacted them and after a few weeks of paperwork we closed on the construction loan. After a few long months of patience, we broke ground on December 19^th.

Little did we know that we would need to dig down deep in the patience department for the next following months. The weather has not been in our favor, so we have not had any progress on the house since December. But we are completely blessed with this opportunity and know it was all in God’s plan and timing. We always wanted more land and to build again but didn’t know it would happen so soon, we continue to trust in him with our finances and this process.