Time Has Flown

So I am realizing that Thanksgiving was the last time I posted. Figured I'd bring all my blog readers up to speed with what's been going on in our household...or at least try to! We've had a crazy 3 months since we moved and still have no house to live in to prove the craziness. The housing market here is...well...crazy!! It is a buyers' market, if you're willing to wait. We've had a few friends who have been blessed with their first offer being accepted, while we are working on getting a 4th accepted...we'll see. The jury's out on that one as we are in a multiple offer counter offer now...one we hadn't experienced yet, so we are at least seeing more progress with this one, but are not counting on anything working out, as THAT has proven not to work for the three before! We are currently living in temporary base housing, working on a month to month renting basis. We are truly thankful for this housing, as we can at least be a little more flexible with what we do from this point on.

In between all that house hunting, Jackson and I went on a cross country family visiting excursion (see previous posts) while Cody completed a month and a half training in Florida. We met up with him and stayed in Florida for a month while he was completing it, made a 10 day trip to TX to visit his parents for Christmas and arrived back in Las Vegas last Wednesday. On the way back, Cody went through San Diego and picked up our car, so we are a two car family now again (we've been a one car family since July!)...YAY!! We hit the ground running with house hunting and well, refer to the first paragraph again! Our lives have been consumed with learning the market and how it works here in Las Vegas, which our realtor now claims is a housing market all to itself! Yay for that?!?! Needless to say, we have learned a lot about buying a home...whether it works out or not. For example, did you know that if a house says "no FHA loan accepted" on the agent to agent details, that means that it is more than likely a "flip"?? And other such nonsense as that. It's been a blast, let me tell ya.

In the meantime, we are experiencing the same type of move we did before...half of our household goods have been lost. One shipment, which proved to be ours' and we now have in our possession, said it was arriving from South Carolina. Whatever, at least it was located and it was ours' and Jackson now has toys to play with. The other stuff (you know, the 13,000 more pounds worth of stuff) is somewhere in the world. We believe that half of it is here in Vegas but not sure about the other half. I can only laugh this time around and remember that it is just stuff and none of it of great importance. God is good to us and continues to bless us, as we are all three together and He is our God and that is all that really matters. All in all, it's teaching us to trust him more with the housing situation and the location of our things.

Now, we do not truly have internet connection but have discovered that someone around us does, so alas, I can blog again. I will rewind a bit in later posts to share about our last European adventure. I was going to post some Christmas pictures, but since we have been working off of our laptop lately, they are on there, and I am posting from the desktop, so I'll have to post those later too.

Hope that everyone had a blessed Christmas and are looking forward to what God has in store for them in the New Year...we definitely DID and ARE!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!