Day Five

Today has been a roller coaster of emotions!  We started out the day running a few errands and heading to the old house.  We needed to load  up the trailer with outdoor stuff and go to the land.  On the way to the house we get a call from our realtor.  She had just opened an email from the buyers lender telling us that the closing had been delayed again!  WHAT?!?!?  How could this happen?  We were originally scheduled to close on April 6, 2012 and now we are looking at April 20th.  I was upset.  Troye was upset.  We have been in the hotel for a week and are looking 1-2 weeks before closing (see I am certain we won't close on the 20th... I am thinking April 25 or so).  Our realtor set up a call with the lender and we were assured that the loan is going forward.  The problem is that it is a USDA loan so that means it is going slow due to governmental delays.  The buyer has had to move out of her apartment and stay with relatives, so she is feeling the same frustration.  After thinking about it and calming down a little bit, we have decided to move out of the hotel! Yep, that's right!  We are MOVING OUT! Ha!  Almost comical when you really think about it!  But we just think it will be best if we go back to the old house until closing.  There will be more room for everyone and we can cook our food.  Of course it will help us save money too.  We are not sure what we are going to do after closing now.  The hotel has been fine and we may come back here but we are still going to explore some other options. I like being next to Troye's work but we are already seeing that we need to go to the land to meet contractors and I imagine we will need to do so more once construction starts.  We may look at staying closer to the land.  If we went that route we would most likely pull the rv back from the deer lease.  But we will see.  I need a few days to think on it.  Today has been way too emotional for me to make a decision!  Stay turned for tomorrows moving day post! LOL!

Day Four

Whew! Busy day today.  The boys and I went to the old house to get the rest of the hotel items.  While there our crazy dog, Bobber, decided to get out and go for a run.   He did not ask permission and I really didn't care to chase him, but the boys and I did and when he finally tired out, we were there to catch him!  :-)  After that fun, unexpected run we were tired so we hit the road to go to the land.  We had a meeting with one of the contractor.  He determined the location of the house and staked it out!  He also located the driveway location. Since that was done we drove a little further down the road and submitted the application for our driveway at the TXDOT office.  Finally everything was done and we headed back home....aka.... the hotel!  I unpacked the rest of our belongings and got everything organized.  You would really be surprised at how much we have in our room but how organized and functional it all works!  We are all beat, so early bedtime for all!

The boys at the homesite

They just had to check out the creek.

Day Three

Today was a beautiful day!  Troye called at 9 a.m. to tell us it was so pretty out and that no one was at the city park.  So we loaded up Bobber and headed to the park!  The boys got to see Troye and his police car and then we played for a couple of hours.  We headed back to the room to eat lunch and watch movie.  After lunch we met up with some friends at a local McDonald's just so the kids could play in the playground.  They had fun and were tired when we left.  After Troye got off work, Colt and I headed to the grocery store.... we purchased some frozen meals and of course some snacks.  A good day.

Day Two--Easter Sunday!

Well we made it through the first night of our Hotel stay!  Honestly the boys did great, but I don't think Troye or I slept at all!  Ha!  I think it was just the nervousness of all that is going on with the old and new houses!  Today is Easter Sunday!  We rejoice that our Savior is Risen!  The boys got all dressed up in their new Rodeo/Easter clothes and we headed to church.  The service was great and it was good to be worshiping!  After church we just came back to the hotel to relax.... well that didn't work out so after I had a little rest I took the boys to the park so that Troye could rest.  The boys had fun running around the park and playing.  The boys enjoyed opening an Easter bag of goodies. Lego to put together!  Fun!  Later that evening we took the boys and Bobber back to the park for an Easter egg hunt!  It was just us and the boys had a blast!  Then we came back to the room and they boys dug into their new stash of eggs!  So far the boys are doing great at the hotel and Bobber is doing fine too.  He still seems a little nervous but I think that he will relax as time goes on.  Good Night!

Easter bags

Opening the Easter goodies

The best looking cowboys!

Troye hiding the eggs

Cam found the camoflauge egg

Fast Moving Colt

Day One!

The day has finally arrived...MOVING DAY! We having been preparing for this day for weeks, and dreaming about it for months. We moved almost all of our belongings to storage and were able to get some of our stuff to the hotel. We still have to move several boxes to the hotel and move some items to the land. I am surprised that I was not very emotional today. I think that it was just too busy and we are just so ready to get to the land! I have been reminiscing over memories the last few weeks, but I am SO excited about our future at the land that sadness has not set in!
I wanted to give some background information so you will know what we are doing and why we are moving into a hotel!  We decided to sell our house in September 2011.  We had no idea what we were going to do or where we were going to go but we felt that God was leading us to move and make a change.  After months of praying and searching we found some land that we loved.  In January 2012 we made an offer on 20 acres of land about an hour from where we currently live.  We had our house for sale by owner but had not received any offers.  We met a great realtor and decided to list with her.  We spent a fast paced long week painting and redoing lots to the house.  After just one week on the market we had an offer!  Unfortunately that offer did not work out but 2 weeks later we had another one!  We are set to close on our house in Mid April.  While we were trying to sell the house we were researching options for housing on the land. We decided to purchase a modular home. We are super excited to have it on the land! We were able to get a great floor plan that will accommodate us homeschooling and Troye's dad living with us.  I have never wanted a large house, just one that has a great layout! 
So we are a week away from the closing on our sold house.  We will then close on the new house and land and then construction will begin!  While we wait on the new house to be completer we are technically homeless! Ha!  But we are looking at this as a time of adventure! We have decided to stay in a hotel near Troye's work.  So stay tuned as we embark on this Hotel Adventure!

Good Bye to the house!

Ready to go to hotel!

Settled in

Bobber has found his spot!