Sleep who needs it?

Well, this is the second night that I have not been able to sleep due to a little boy who thinks he needs to be playing! Tonight, my little girl decided she needed to be up as well. Craziness I tell you! Jackson is teething! So he has been running a little bit of fever. Yesterday, all I did when he was awake was hold him. I couldn't put him down at all. He did sleep quite a bit, but that's b/c he didn't sleep that much the night before. Its hard b/c him and Jaycee share the same room. If he was in his own room I would tend to his needs and then let him cry it out. He is a happy boy just roaming around in my mom and dad's office. Jaycee is sitting in the chair watching Fox and the Hound. So hopefully, before too long we will head off to bed. Maybe they will sleep in for me!

Not a lot has been going on for us. Jackson got his first boo-boo on Sunday. He fell and hit the metal frame of the bed right between his eyes! Thank you Jesus that it didn't split it. It just brought a little blood to the surface. His nose was bruised but it has already faded. He cried pretty good from that! It took me a little bit to settle the little boy down.

Hope everyone had a great night of rest! Hopefully, a great night of rest is in store for me tonight!

You will be moved and touched!

This is short, but its to pass along information. As many of you know that Phil and Amanda have adopted children from Ghana. Their are several other families from North County Christ the King that are adopting too. The Diacogiannis family just arrived to meet their 3 new children. If you go to http://nondairyqueen31.blogspot.com/ this blogsite you can watch the meeting of the mom and dad and their 3 new children. Its breaktaking to watch! All I can say is its amazing when you see God's unconditional love flowing! I have watched it twice already and the tears are still flowing down my face! You will never be the same! All praise and glory and honor be to you Lord!

Fun times with Jaycee and Jackson

Disappointments!

My heart is aching right now. The real estate business is definitely not for me. You have no control over anything. You just have to wait. Its like the last stretch of being pregnant and you play the waiting game to see when you go into labor. You have no control or say when that baby is ready come. The plus to labor is that the baby will come, it can't stay inside forever. Will our house ever sell? It has to! What other option do we have? I know it will, but its very hard on me. As I type I just have tears streaming down my face. I don't understand! Of course, to some extent I am bias about our house in Noosack. I think its by far the best house on Jackson Court. Especially, out of the house's that are for sale. People are just not wanting to make an offer.

Our realtor informed us of many things today. Its definitely a strange market right now. The couple that I posted earlier about that had contacted a friend of ours about home insurance is not at this point going to offer on our home. They plan to offer on the one like ours across the street. So our realtor asked why that house over ours and they said b/c its a little bit bigger. So our realtor went to do some measuring of his own. The only difference is the kitchen/dining area is 18in. wider than our house! They haven't made an offer yet, so maybe they will change their mind and offer on ours. Maybe they won't be able to agree on a contract with the builder. Its still frustrating! Then an older lady from Sumas was once interested in ours, but her grandaughter thought the 2 extra rooms in ours were too small. So she is now making a low ball offer on a house in Everson. I guess that is what she does. She has all the money, but doesn't really want to pay for anything. Which, we probably don't want an offer from her! Then the couple that have looked at our place 4 times, their realtor can't get a hold of them. Its like they don't even exist anymore. Then the couple that was friends of our realtor, had liked our house the best, has now decided to stay in Eastern Wash. and he is going to be a stay at home Dad.

This is the crazy one, our realtor had another house listed and had a contract on it. An easy great contact, it came time to close and the buyers are nowhere to be found. The buyer's realtor even went to their home and everything was packed up and gone! So how bazaar is that? So we will just continue to wait so more!

Please, pray for me and all of us! Not that Byron isn't concerned, but I don't think that men carry the same worries as us women. Its truly wearing on me! So please pray for strength and peace.

Oklahoma had snow, yesterday!

Yes, we did! Obviously, not enough to do anything with it! After it stopped, the only place that had any signs of it snowing, were on roofs of homes! Jaycee thought it was pretty cool! She stood at the window watching it come down! The crazy thing is I think its suppose to be really warm today. That's Oklahoma for you!

Another week has past, we still have heard nothing on our house in Nooksack. So crazy! Maybe with the Government cutting interest rates again, maybe that will put a fire under the people that have been looking at our place. Earlier this week, we thought we had something. A friend of mine had a couple call in to get a home insurance quote for our house. They made the comment they wanted to close by March 1st. Our realtor hasn't heard anything, but we hope that maybe they are just getting everything they need in order and they offer today! That would be music to our ears!

There isn't a lot going on around here. The kids and I just hang out all day playing. They play pretty well together. If Jaycee has had enough of Jackson, then she goes to her room and closes the door. Lately, I have been checking on her more frequently. She has been getting into stuff she shouldn't. Yesterday, I went in her room. That room holds all of mom's wrapping paper. So Jaycee had 3 rolls out and had found the tape as well. So she had one roll that had tape all over it! Its just so funny, how they know its something they shouldn't be doing and they do it anyways. I open the door, and she jumps a mile high! It never bothers her if she is playing with her stuff and I come in the room. I just wonder what goes through their mind. Does she really think I am not going to know what she did? Just so funny!

Well, I think that is about it! Not much else is going on! Looking forward to the Super Bowl on Sunday! Our small group from church is having a big party. So that should be lots of fun. Pray that Jaycee will do well with all the kids. Their are some girls from the church that baby-sit all the kids. The kids actually stay at the church and play while we have our group. Jaycee has already found her a buddy in Maddie Lemley. She is our associate pastor's daughter. She is 12. Jaycee adores her! So she is going to be there, so I think Jaycee will be fine. She also already knows several of the kids from church. Our church isn't that big, so she sees the kids every Sun. and Wed. I am going to keep Jackson with me. I don't think he would do too well for that long. He would start looking for me! Well, have a great weekend!

Another Housing Update!

The house in Velma's will be our new home! YAY! We sign the contract tomorrow! We are so relieved and thankful that we have a home to go to when our Nooksack house sells. We truly believe that God's favor was shown up on us! The owner of the house, said that he has received so many calls on the house. That there was a gentleman that had looked at it the day before we did. He called the day after we made an offer, to make an offer himself. The owner told him he already had a deal. Then many people have told him that he is selling it way too cheap. He has a friend that builds metal buildings and said he couldn't replace the house and shop for 20k-30k over what we are paying for the house. That isn't including the land, septic, and other things that you need to do. So we were really thrilled to hear that. The couple are still totally happy with the situation.

The Nooksack house has been showing like crazy. Let me be totally honest here, I am very frustrated! I just don't understand what is taking so long. I really thought this house would be the easiest house we have ever had to sell! We had another couple look at it for a 3rd time yesterday. To me its either you like the house or you don't. Don't get me wrong buying a house is a huge decision, but if you like one it shouldn't take you that long to make a decision. Maybe I am totally wrong on that. I do know that God is using this time to grow my faith and trust in Him. I am thankful for the seasons in our lives, b/c it just teaches us to be solely dependent on the Lord. This is totally showing me that no matter what God is my #1 and through it all I will always give Him the praise and glory. Its in God's timing not our timing that things happen! So I am pressing onward! I know that there is a buyer for our home. That God has that in store for us! So we will continue to serve God and praise Him for everything in our lives! We know that each day we are just a day closer to the sale of our house in Nooksack!

Finally a home for our family!

Well, pretty close to I guess is the better way of stating it! As you all know, the area we are in isn't overloaded with housing options. We have gone every direction possible in finding a home of our own! The rental that I had mentioned in some past blogs, did go to the niece. We had found a house and did a contingency offer on it, but we couldn't agree to a price. For a time we thought well if that house is still available when the Nooksack house sells, then we will try again. Over the weekend, my dad saw that there was a for sale by owner around the Velma area. Byron and I drove up there yesterday and talked with the guy and looked at the place. We loved it! The house is about 10 yrs. old. Its on 2 1/2 acres of land. It has a huge shop building that goes with it as well. Its owned by a couple in their late 40's and they have taken great care of it. The yard is wonderful with big trees everywhere. The house is 1650 sqft. It has 1 and 3/4 baths. It has an open floor plan. Its an unique house and its very efficient. It has the metal roof and the exterior is also metal! Its very nice! The owner is a perfectionist and the house is done very well. In the future, we will probably add on a little more and then rock or brick about 3 ft. up. Probably one of the best things about it, is my best friend from high school, Tracy Crook's parents live right across the street! We will have wonderful neighbors all around us. The people we are buying it from are building about 1/2 mile north of us.

The best part is we are in no rush of getting into it. They are perfectly fine for waiting on our house to sell. When it does then we can close before their house is done. They have a 5th wheel trailer they will stay in. We told them they could use the shop building for storing all of their things til the house was completed. Which they were thrilled to hear that! So it looks like things are going to work out. They will call us tomorrow with all the final details and we will then sign a contract!

We have had a lot of activity on our Nooksack house. Our realtor has some friends that looked last week. They are moving back to that area. The woman had an interview last week in Bellingham. She is going to take the job. So we should be hearing very soon on what their plans will be. The woman loved our house and the husband liked another one. I do feel like they will go with our house! We will see! So please pray for favor over that! So we can potentially have an offer this week and possibly be in our new home in a month. Just in time for Jackson's 1st birthday! Yippee! We are so excited! We are so thankful for our Heavenly Father and for His direction! He closed doors that needed to be closed and has opened doors that needed to be opened! We give Him all the praise and glory!