Friday Flash Back and many changes ahead for us......

I can't believe it has been a couple weeks since I have been on here!! We have had so much going on lately. I also can't believe it is already Fall!!!!! It does not seem like Fall much around here with temperatures reaching near 100 this week! We are suppose to have another HOT week-end and then should start cooling off next week. Sooo looking forward to the cooler Fall days. I have not picked up my camera in 2 weeks so I am posting a "Fall flashback" of Faith when she was 3 years old with her pumpkin to get in the Fall mood. I have always loved this photo.

Dale and I celebrated our "19th wedding Anniversary" on Sept. 22nd the first day of Fall!!! We have been so richly blessed with our wonderful life together! I am one that can NEVER make up my mind about anything! Seriously! It is a real problem! Dale always jokes that he does not know how in the world I ever made up my mind about whether or not to marry him! lol That was one time I knew exactly what I wanted!!! :D
We celebrated the day by taking full advantage of the kids being in school. We went out for a nice lunch together and signed papers to accept an offer on a house!!! Yes. We are moving. AGAIN! This will be our 10th home in 19 years! We have decided to stay in California at least for the next few years. Although Dale's company was willing to let him relocate to Texas and work out of the home he feels with the economy down the best thing is for him to stay put and be in the office for now. Just a little too risky to be so far from the company with the economy being so bad. With Dean in high school now we feel better about the decision as Dean is going to a very academic charter college prep school and he will be able to finish his 4 years there. It was a tough decision though as it means giving up being around family. We are hopeful that this is the best decision for our family right now.

I am really nervous about buying a home here in CA again. We have been looking at them all summer and although prices have dropped considerably they are still high in comparison to what we could get in Texas. I have really had to change my mind set on what our "perfect home" will be. ;) I had certain things I have always wanted in a home and well, it is just not going to happen...at least here in CA! We found 2 homes that Dale and I both actually agreed on. One was a brand new home in a neighborhood that is just getting started. The other is 13 years old and the neighborhood is not in our favorite area. It is a nice area just a little further away from everything. We are use to having everything right around the corner right now. We have decided on the older home. It is a 5 bedroom/ 3 bath. Needs some updating to make it our own, but it has the right amount of space for us and it also has a beautiful backyard pool. The front yard is tiny which is one draw back. I have always loved big front yards as we love spending time in the front, but just one of those things we have to compromise on. Maybe with having the pool we won't seem to mind the front being small.

We are not considering this our forever home, but one that will suit us for now. We feel pressured into buying as we found out our home we are renting is in the process of being foreclosed. With needing to move we would rather take advantage of home prices being lower and not waste money renting anymore. If everything goes smoothly with the home inspections and appraisal we should close in about a month!!!! I have so much to do to prepare for this!!!

Amongst all the excitement of house hunting, Faith came down with the flu 2 weeks ago. Two Sundays ago she started running fever and began coughing. I am not one to run to the Dr. right away, but I decided to get her in on Monday and they did a nose swab which tested positive right away for flu. I was told most likely it was the H1N1 virus and she was put on tamiflu. She had a couple pretty rough days with high fever, but for the most part she did amazingly well. She had to miss the whole week of school which she was not very happy about. She was so excited about going back to school on Monday! This week FLEW by with me trying to get caught up on things after being home with Faith the previous week. Today Dean was not feeling too well after school and he is running a fever now so looks like we will be taking it easy this week-end!

Have a great one!!!!!!