A change in plans

Okay, so I know it has been over a month since we have blogged. Well, a lot has happened in that month. Where to start? Well, the night before the movers were to come our realtor in WA called with some bad news. You know that cute little house that I had in a previous blog? Well, the builder went bankrupt and was unable to clear the lean on his house. So that meant that we could not close. Yes, the day before we were to close. So, we had no house to move in to and now where to move our stuff to and no place to stay for who knew how long. So, as the movers were packing our stuff Andrew got a call from a friend that said we could stay at his house. Well, that was not ideal. Not too much longer and he got a call from the HR department in Richland and said that we could stay in the company condo. Praise God! The condo was fully furnished and we could keep Harp there also. So we at least had some place to stay while we looked for a house.

The flight with the boys went very well and Harp arrived not terribly traumatized. We arrived on a Sunday afternoon and started looking for houses Mon. morning. We found nothing we liked on Mon or Tuesday with our realtor. so we just started driving around. We had a house we kind of liked so we drove by it again and on our way saw some new houses and one that was still under construction. The guy working said we could come in and look but it still had 3 weeks until it would be on the market. So, we looked at it and loved it. We called our realtor and the next day we put in a offer. We also had some things we wanted to pick out such as tile and hard wood floors. They agreed and by Thurs. we were looking at tile and picking out house colors.

To make a long story short, we moved in the 29th of Aug. All of our stuff made it across the country with just a few dents and dings (even our cars) and now I have Internet back so we are getting things back to normal again. The neighbors are great, Andrew loves his new job, and we have found a great church. We are slowly but surely settling in.
The boys are getting so big. I would post pictures but I am not sure where the memory card is -oh, the joys of unpacking. We visited Mt. Rainier a couple of weeks ago so I will post pictures of us there. Even Harp went along for the ride. The boys are 13 weeks now. My how time flies, everyone said it would but they did not warn me it would go at warp speed. The boys are smiling a lot now and I am waiting any day for a giggle. They make the facial expressions of a laugh but nothing comes out. They are now reaching for things also. They sleep from about 9:45ish until at least 6, so things are good. They are also good eaters and nappers (most of the time). Things are going well. I am in a rush to get things moved in because my college friend Sue and her husband James are coming to visit in a week. It will be nice to see familiar faces and I don't get to see her enough, so if we don't update for a while you know why, but I will post pictures soon. Thanks for reading and all of your prayers for our family we all made it and are getting used to being Washingtonians. (What is someone from Washington? I am going to have to find that one out.) IN- Hoosiers and TN -Vols.