Mad House Hunting

We got to Sierra Vista, AZ very early in the morning on Saturday, june 28th. We met with our realtor that afternoon and began the hunt. We had been looking online and had several houses that we wanted to see. We hunted Monday while the girls played at our realtor's house, being watched by her teenage daughter (very convenient). Plus, after being in a car and hotel room, her house was like disneyland. Not only does she have a trampoline and kids to play with, but she has horses, and dogs, and a baby goat that thinks it's a dog. Anyways, the girls didn't want to leave after we were done house hunting. On Tuesday we made an offer on this house:
http://www.longrealty.com/Listing/ListingDetail.aspx?Search=16f978a4-7f20-4403-a383-ad04bc5eb071&Listing=29523269&IRPAgentID=9301882&Image=1&First=1&Last=10&pagesize=10&SearchType=geographic&ListingDistrictTypeID=&FirstLetter=&Sort=6&Cookies=&UseColorBar=false

We loved that it had a bit of character, and great great landscaping. We were looking forward to the awesome pool and site built gazebo with built in BBQ. It was a great great house. So we made an offer and after a bit of back and forth we were under contract on it.

Let's start at the very beginning

Alright, where I left off we had still been hoping to leave on Friday. Well, Thursday night we had a goodbye party with lots of our friends in Texas. We were sad to leave Texas; it's really the first time I've had lots of really close friends that I am sad to leave behind. Jake and I have moved many times and we never have lived anywhere long enough to make good friends. Now we know what it's like. There are many that I want to keep in touch with, and we hope to go back and visit soon. Below is a picture of me with Katie and Ute, their husband's work with Jake and we became good friends as well.
This is the girls swimming with some of their friends. The little girl in the pink floatie lived across the street from us and the girls have already asked to go back and see her many times. It was nice to have a friend across the street that they got along so well with.

This is me and one of my best friends kara rey. I will miss her a lot. She is awesome. This is Jake and a couple of his buddies who are in the army. They are both getting out and joining Northrop grumman soon, so we'll see them in Arizona. In fact, we have already hung out with the guy on the right (Joey) and his fiance.
This is me with a bunch of my friends from church. Sarah (the girl in blue) is also one of my best friends, whom I still talk to on the phone a lot. The girls have asked to go to her house several times as well.

We had a great time at the party, and I'm glad that we got to say a proper good-bye, and we didn't just disappear in the night. After the party I went back to the house and packed our car, cleaned house, and patched a few holes in the wall. I was out until 3am wrapping everything up so we could leave in the morning. We had decided that I would go finish everything while Jake went to bed, and then he could drive in the morning while I slept. It worked fairly well.

Back online...Rewind time!

It has been almost a month since my last post, and it has been quite the busy month. Since blogging is currently the only sort of journal/personal family history thing I do (I am not a scrapbooker), I am going to do some back posting while I have a computer to work on. We have had internet access almost continuaously, but Jake takes his computer with him to work, and the little time I do get to use it I usually only email and pay bills, etc. Today though, he left the computer at home for me to use. YAY! So I am going to try to do some catching up.