God has an interest in real estate...

Or so it seems in our case!  We put our house on the market on a Thursday about a week and a half ago.  We had an open house that Sunday, and it was a rainy day.  In the infamous words of a friend, all I got out of that was "some alone time."  Needless to say it was a bit disappointing for us, but when you're selling FSBO you have to be patient.  So Thursday comes, a week after the sign went in the yard, and I got a call from a lady who wanted to tour the house, without an agent.  They toured, and then got an agent to take them around to some other homes in our area the next day.  They called right after that point and said they liked our house the best, and wanted to come make an offer.  We scheduled with a realtor friend to all meet Saturday afternoon, and ended up with a signed contract making us more on the house than we expected, and it was SOLD!!  Very hard to imagine, but very exciting too!  So we close in late June, and are now getting into the throes of house-hunting!  You can pray that we find a good house for our family that will enable our boys to have some space to get big in! 

So now you know why we firmly believe God has a serious interest in real estate, or maybe that means he has a serious interest in us?!!  Thanks God!

A picture for you

a bit dark, but you get the point.  Hopefully:)

Go Fish

The boys have a couple of CD's from a group named Go Fish.  They love the music, it's really pretty fun and has a great message - a Christian group singing for Jesus and for kids, though Rhonda and I enjoy the music as well!  Is it cool to like your kids music?  Or more importantly, is it cool if your parents like your music?  Check it out on youtube, you might like it too!

finished bathroom and other stuff

So here are a few pictures of the house.  We're almost ready, and once we get the kitchen cleaned up I'll try to load that pic as well.  It's been a lot of work the last month or so, but the for sale sign is up in the yard and we'll see how this selling a house goes for us!  You can pray that God either sells it or tells us we need to stay awhile more!  

Birthday Presents

So today the boys received a big package from their cousins in Ottawa for their birthdays, and we had so much fun opening it!  We tried to call and share the moment over the phone, but the cousins were away from all phones (we tried three different ones!) so we went with videotaping the moment and sharing it with everyone!  Hope you enjoy it, and thanks cousins Emma, Kaleb, and Navia!  The little padawan's are loving their costumes and new lightsabres!

Wanna buy it?

We've decided to put our home up for sale this spring and see if it will sell, and if we can find a bigger house for our family as the boys stretch out.  This has been a great house for us, and with all the work we're doing to it we hope it will be a great house for someone else this spring or early summer!  There are some good homes that have some land with them, half an acre to an acre, and we're praying that God would let us know if this is the right time to buy something new.  It will likely be something we have to fix up in the future, but that's okay, we're good with that.

So if you know anyone looking for a nice three bedroom, two bath ranch, have them give us a call!