On the Market

As I mentioned before, we had three weeks to prepare to leave Idaho after we accepted the job offer in Virginia. In those three weeks we had some minor repairs on the house to get done. The base board in the kitchen needed to get back up, the inside needed some touch up paint, the outside badly needed to be repainted, and we needed to access the bathroom piping to wrap the pipes since they froze ever winter.
The foundation on the outside of the bathroom had rolled out. A contractor told us that it was a facade and not the real foundation, so we weren't to worried about it when we bought the house. Just before we left, we decided to have the rolled out concrete removed in hopes of getting to the pipes to fix their problem. Once we removed the concrete we found an even huger issue. This is a picture of what is holding up the floor under our bathroom.
Yikes!

So we had to hire a contractor to take care of the problem while we packed up and went on our way. (There went some of our equity.) Anyway, three weeks later, our contractor is done and our house it officially on the market.
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And we already have a perspective buyer!!! What great news with the economy the way it is. We truly have been blessed.

And Our New Adventure Begins

On Wednesday August 19th we flew from Sacramento, California to Lynchburg, Virginia. With three flights, three kids, and two layovers we were glad to safely arrive at our destinations. Thankful we had little problems on the flights, the kids behaved themselves very well. We were lucky enough to sit up in first class on our first two flights. It made the trip that much easier. If you ever get the chance to do it, fly First Class. It truly is that much better!

Thanks to our dear friend, Joanie, the kids were equipped with lots of snacks and fun activity. Thanks so much!!

Once we made it to our final destination, we were very pleased to find all 9 checked bags (4 suitcase + 3 car seats + 1 pack'n'play + 1 baby saucer) arrived safely as well. What a blessing.

The adventure begins!

Visiting Family

A week before we left Idaho we were able to meet Jared's brother, Jeremy and his family, in Twin Falls for a quick visit. They had a little girl in May and we hadn't had a chance to meet her yet. It was fun getting pictures of the two newest cousins together.

Here is Abigail and Zachery, they are about 8 weeks apart.
RJ, Savannah, & Makale
We enjoyed having cousins close to us and will miss that.

The relocation package included a moving company to come and pack all our stuff and ship it to Virgina for us. I couldn't have made this quick move with out them. After this experience it might be hard to move by myself again. It was awesome to have some one else do all that hard tedious work.
After the movers had as all moved out and we took cleaned up the house a little, did some finishing up painting on the outside of the house, we took of for our last long drive to California. This time we took the trip in two days instead of through the night like we were used to. We made it to Wells Thursday night and stayed in a motel. Jared took this shot of the boys in the morning while I was in the shower.

In California we stayed at Jared's mom's place. Sunday evening she had a big dinner with all my family and Jared's younger brother, Josh. It was nice to be able to visit everyone at one time.

Savannah loves this Cinderella cup at Grandma's house. She just stared into Cinderella eyes imagine she was a princess.

My Grandmother and Zachery

These two are so alike in personality. My littlest brother, Matthew and RJ. RJ just adores his Uncle. He is always so excited to see both him and Christopher.

My sister Margaret holding Zachery for the first time.

Zachery is really into peek-a-boo right now and Matthew had a blast making him laugh.

RJ's favorite Aunt. He has taken to Margaret like a mother since he was a baby. Wish she was a little closer, the kids would love it.

Grandma Sammie and Zachery

Zachery with both his GrandmasMonday night we went up to Sacramento and were able to spend Tuesday with Jared's dad before we flew into VA on Wednesday.

It was a fun quick visit. We were glad we made it down to see family before we took off across to the country.

Saying Good Bye to Idaho

This move has been quick. It seems like it took months for everything to work out and fall into place but everything really just took place in the month of August. Once Jared accepted the new job offer in Virginia we had three weeks in Idaho to do everything we wanted to do and everything we needed to do. I had a list of things I wanted to do, some of which I didn't have time for. I really wanted to visit Yellowstone and the Tetons again. I also wanted to go to the Titanic exhibit at the Idaho Falls museum. However I had little time to get these things accomplished. However, we did make it to Rexburg to hang out with Seth one last time at the Spray Park:

We did make it to Bear World one last time and feed the Bears.

We did spend time with friends at the zoo.

And RJ was able to spend a fun filled day with his best friend Matthew.

We will miss Idaho. It was a great place to live. Filled with many adventures and wonderful friends. In college I never dreamed of staying in Idaho. I tired to stay away from the Idaho boys just so I wouldn't have to stay. I married a California guy, thinking I would move back closer to home, but then he took his first job in Idaho. I really wasn't happy to be living in Idaho. But I grew to LOVE it and couldn't imagine leaving. But life is always full of surprises. Good Bye Idaho.

On this day...

On this day......Seven years ago...
..Jared and Jennifer...
...were sealed for time and all eternity. And their love is still going strong.

Happy Anniversary!