SOLD

I know I have still to update on our Christmas adventures on the coast but, you'll have to wait.

A few days before we were to fly home a couple called Bing about our home. We had left it quite clean, tidied up and toilets scrubbed so I told him to give them the code for our lock box and have them look through. They LOVED it and wanted to sit down with us after we got home. They are only in town until the 8th and so we met with them the day after we got home, they walked through again and asked all of the questions they had, the unusual heating and cooling, solar panels and efficiency aspects do raise some questions. Bing attended to them while I wrangled our insanely busy boys and so I was not privy to all of the goings on but, they made Bing an offer that night and he told them we would discuss, pray and get back to them. We countered, they countered, and we re-countered. Then they accepted! They came over tonight with a bunch of family and friends to walk them through and show off the house they are buying. It was great that they did it all at once cause this mama is tired of cleaning up to show it, ha! They ushered out the fam and we got down to business with the paper work.

We will close early to mid February and then we will continue to rent from them for about 2 1/2 months. That gives us time to have a baby, find a home to rent(God willing in Coeur d' Alene) and move. They are young, married last summer, he is finishing school for geology and is working for Stillwater Mining Co. and she plans to get her masters in Psych. They have no children yet so, they have room to grow in this house for awhile. While I had not met them previously, we have a TON of mutual family friends, we know so, so many of the same people it is wild. They are just the couple we have be praying for, and I am excited for them to have this home!

I am thrilled to start a whole new chapter of our life. While I am sad to be moving away from my family, it is the adventure Bing and I need to grow: as a couple, a family, and our business. To be in a new place where we are both starting fresh, making friends as a couple instead of inheriting mine or his, finding a church. and relying on God and each other instead of our family... that is what we look forward to.

This year has been full of blessings and we marvel, daily, at the things God has done for us. Three years ago, we never could have dreamed the life we now have and I believe with every ounce of my being this is just the beginning. I am humbled by His good works in us and grateful beyond words for His abundant grace and mercy.