We sold our house and bought a house for real! It actually worked out this time. :) I am SO far behind on blogging so I am going to catch up! Before and after moving has been crazy to say the least. I want to document our crazy life during this huge transition for our family. At times (most times) I was barely hanging on. It's been the most stressful process EVER! Moving and buying a house are ranked as a huge stressor/change in someone's life and marriage. Well, we were selling and buying a house at the same time so I think it was doubly stressful. My kids were driving me nuts on many occasions as I tried to deal with the stress of it all. There were times I handled it better than others. I look back on this whole process and see how it all worked out and realize that Heavenly Father helped us a lot. It wasn't smooth like I would have liked it, but it all worked out in the end. (That was my mantra through this process... "it will all work out".) At times I didn't think it would, but it did. This along with other experiences in my life will help strengthen my faith as we go through future challenges. I just need to do better at handling them well through the bitter end.
As we were packing our old house we were getting closed in with boxes. My friend from Church, Sue Orchard, works at Bed, Bath and Beyond and she got us lots of boxes. That was so nice of her to get them for us because they worked out perfectly. We ended up getting more from our realtor towards the end of packing.
The girls entertaining themselves. Chelsea was really challenging during this move. She kept getting into everything she wasn't supposed to get into. It was so frustrating! I get so focused on packing or doing something so when she messes it up I have a hard time dealing with that.
We went home for General Conference weekend at the beginning of April and did our Easter egg hunt then with the cousins since we were going to be moving Easter weekend (didn't happen). Melanie and her kids and Dee Ann came out on Sunday afternoon. We visited and the kids played then we made waffles for dinner. My Mom kept my kids so I could go back and pack. We didn't know if the deal with the 3rd buyer was really off the table at this point because we were trying to appeal to the lender (in a way). So Kyle and I went back on our own. I ended up coming back to Mattawa on Wednesday morning once we knew the deal was off with the buyers and we had to relist our house. So I hung out at my Mom's house and we visited Sara and her new house. It was nice to be away from the stress of having to show a house with 4 little kids and nap schedules. It worked out good that it was during spring break.
Chelsea was funny because she would pick up a couple eggs then get on the gator and ride it for a bit then get off and walk around. She wasn't too interested in filling up her basket with eggs. I forgot their baskets at home so they got to use ice cream buckets. haha.
Everyone was helping each other find their golden egg (with money and trinkets inside!).
Most of the grandkids. Jeff and Sadie weren't there. Neither was Marci. We actually did the hunt in the morning after breakfast and before the first session of conference on Sunday because Paige was sick. Her and Hailey ended up being sick for a couple days. So we hurried and did the hunt so Jeni and Kevin could go home. We were sad they had to leave early.
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