The best of intentions.......

So I have really wanted to blog but I have found great excuses not to. We have had an incredibly busy summer...make that year and I have just put my blog on the back burner...sorry.

I cannot start way at the beginning from where I left off as we will be here forever and a day so I will start with the most recent, we moved!

When we moved to Kamloops in 2008 and were looking for a house, the market was looking pretty grim and so we had only a few choices and with me being pregnant with Lila, I did not want a big reno project. We were lucky to find a 1 year old Townhouse duplex for a decent price and since we only had 30 days to find a place we took it, even though it was not our ideal. The yard was as big as a postage stamp, we were in a strata (never again!), we did not have a basement, nor a play room for the kids. It fulfilled our needs but it was not my favourite. Fast forward to May 2010. Kal and I slowly start talking about looking for a new house, we are not in a rush and just wanting to take it slowly. BTW I have a habit of wanting to move every 2-3 years, so I was trying not to move just for the sake of moving. We contacted a friend of ours who is a realtor and asked him to put us on his client listings and went from there. We were very specific as to where we wanted to be and how much we wanted to spend, so basically it was slim pickings, but that is ok as we were not in a rush. We put an offer on one house that was cute, had a big yard, but lots of work....it was declined because we still had to sell our home. No biggie, lets put our house on the market. Three weeks after our house was up for sale, we did not have one single phone call from any one interested in our house and our place was super cute! We scheduled an open house and hoped for the best. 1 person came through to look at it, and that one person happened to come by just by chance as she was looking at another unit on our street that day. But they say, (by the way, who are they?) it only takes one and she was our golden opportunity. She loved our place and asked our realtor if we might be interested in looking at her place...... ok, so not something that happens every day, but why not. We went to go see it the next Monday, not really sure what to expect and we were very pleasantly surprised, it was exactly what we had been looking for! The only downfalls, it was way above our price range and not in the area we had wanted to be (not that is in a bad area but just not in our current ward) but we LOVED it and after talking with our realtor came up with a plan. Since the owners were selling privately we were able to get them to drop their price and cover part of our realtor's commissions and then give us a great price on our home to boot! So we swapped houses! This does not happen every day and I feel so completely blessed! We made the offer in June and moved in on August 14th...so much for taking it slowly! We LOVE this house, we have a huge yard, a big wood cabin playhouse for the kids, a garden, 4 bedrooms, a basement every thing we could have asked for. It was a miracle, I do not believe in coincidences pure and simple this is a gift from my Heavenly Father. I do not know what we have done to be so blessed, but I am certainly not going to argue with the Lord!

So we did have to move wards, it was sad but I know that there is a bigger picture going on and someday I might see the whole thing, but for now I am content with my glimpse of heaven.