Our summer (Very LONG)

It has been a long time since I blog. WOW does selling house & vacations & moving take a lot out of you. We will give an update. Christina's little sister Kara got married June 13 in North Carolina. So around June 11 we started basically living out of a suitcase. We left our dog Jazmine & Steve's car in North Carolina. Came back to Virginia for a couple days. June 17 Trevor's last day of 4th grade, we flew to Florida for 10 days. We visit with Steve's Aunt/Uncle for a few days and then went to time share for rest of time and went to Disney Parks. Went back to Virginia for 1 1/2 days. Christina said her sad & crying goodbyes, it was hard. Then we (Christina, Steve & Trevor) drove to Ohio June 28 for Christina's family reunion for a week. Steve flew to North Carolina July 4 to get Jazmine. He spend night at Christina's parents house. Christina & Trevor stayed with her mom Nancy & step dad Paul at a cousins house on July 4. Then they drove to Illinois. Steve drove back to Virginia on July 5. Steve got house packed up & did checking out for military stuff. Christina, Trevor, Nancy & Paul stayed with Paul's sister Mary for a few days, then to see his brother Don, then few more days to see his other sister Joanne. Nancy & Paul flew back to North Carolina. Christina & Trevor went to Steve's sister Tammy house on July 12. Steve got there July 14. Trevor & his cousin Gillian went to day camp all week. We stayed at Tammy & Todd's house till July 17. That day started our drive to North Dakota. We got to North Dakota July 19. It took a few weeks to find a OK place to rent. The house we are renting has no bathtubs (Christina is a big bathtub person) or garage for us to use. And winters are BAD here. But owner is letting us have our dog here & is doing month to month rent for us. Owner Frank lives in apartment attach to house. We have the house. It is 3 bedrooms & 2 1/2 bathroom & fence in backyard. We were in the base hotel till August 13. (So almost a month of living in a hotel.) We are # 4 on base housing list. We are hoping to get onto base housing as soon as possibly. Trevor meet some kids at the playground at the base hotel, the kids houses back up to the playground. Christina has meet the mom Joanne. We decided to register Trevor at the base school. Steve will take Trevor to before school care on base. Trevor will go to youth center after school till Steve can get him after work. So cheap for Trevor to join youth center ( $24 a whole year). Trevor starts school August 27. Above picture is of the house we are renting off base.

Goody Bye dinner

Some friends had a good bye dinner for me at Olive Garden in Mannass on Monday, June 15 at 7:00 p.m. We had fun chatting & laughing. Who all showed up: Amy O'Brien, Jill Abbott, Debbie Morgal, Jenifer Williams, Vicky Hirst, Ilse Buchheit, Kerry Ferman (?) not sure of her last name. Thank you ladies for showing up. It really meant alot to me. I will miss you so much.

MOVING to North Dakota

The military approve Trevor's special ed stuff (medical stuff). Steve got "Orders" tonight. Finally some good news. We all have been super stressed. Steve will go tommorow to set up packers / movers & get a move date. Then we can get some details in place.

Hermit crab

Trevor's hermit crab Nick died. Trevor is so sad.

Orders delayed

Steve found out today that our orders are delayed. We may NOT be moving to North Dakota. Trevor having special ed stuff has our orders on hold. They are re checking into things. They think they may not be able to provide Trevor with the services he needs. Steve asked the military does that mean I have to move alone to North Dakota, they said no you won't be moving to North Dakota at all. We will pull your orders. We are so stressed. If we find out for sure we can't move to North Dakota it will be super stress big time. Our house, Steve job, etc, etc etc. I just don't know what we are going to do. I hope we hear a answer either way SOON.

quick update

Let's see.... where to start? Our house is under contract. We close escrow on July 13. But working on closing earlier. We still DON'T have orders (paperwork) for our move. LOL, at this rate we could be homeless & still don't have orders. The last few weeks Christina took Trevor to many doctor appts to get stuff signed for orders, since he gets special ed help. May 22 Christina, Steve & Trevor went to North Carolina till May 25. We had a great time visiting with everyone. May 23 we went to beach with Christina's family and spend night in hotel. Steve's birthday was May 24. He is 37 years old. Christina has a cavity filled yesterday, she has 2 more to get filled. Trevor will go to dentist in a few weeks to get 2 cavities filled. Today Christina is having lunch with a couple friends. Trevor & Steve are Tae Kwon Do belt testing on Friday, May 29 for their red belts. Saturday Trevor is going to a birthday party for little girl in our neighborhood. Then we are going to a cub scout space day. Sunday, we have our end of year cub scout party for Steve's boys (Den). We are BUSY BUSY BUSY till we move.

House

Tuesday, May 12 we put house up for sale $389,990. We had about 20 people come & look at house. We had one offer Thursday $373,000. We turned that down. Friday we got another offer $395,000 & they want us to pay $5,000 closing cost & want to close on house June 15.
So we counter offered back: lower price $390,000, they pay closing cost & close on house July 13. They agreed. So now we have a verbal contract. We also said on paper work as soon as we get orders and get packers & movers set up we will try to get it as close as possibly to June 15, but no later then July 13.