Laughin' as I write this: What? YOU moved?

Yup. We moved. If you haven't heard... It happened so fast.
Here's our New Years Resolutions for 2012 (it's a precursor to our move story!)

2012

1) Have no resolutions.
2)Make opposite resolutions...
(Last year, Exactly the opposite of all of our resolutions came to pass, not by choice... so, this year, we are going to do the opposite to begin with)
So...
3) We are not going to buy a new house with one more room (at least) by the end of the year...
4) We are not going to save ANY money.
5) We are going to be late everywhere we go...
6) We are not going to have any unexpected surgeries, or broken bones...
yada yada yada...

In January Coby started looking up houses... what?! Coby? He's the one that's been so against selling our house for less than what we payed for it and buying a more expensive house...
So, I didn't pay attention, so that I would not get excited...
He found a house and it was under contract... he just would pull it up and read about it over and over...
but, I did not, it was under contract. But, he would say "too bad. This is it, this is the house"
by January 10th... we decided to start looking for a house...just to look.
We found a house in one of my favorite neighborhoods in Junction... Put an offer on it...
It was roughly the same size as our house but, it had one more room... sweet! and a way better neighborhood and it was still in our ward! Yay!
They countered our offer. So, we prayed about it, and didn't feel that we should accept.
Two days later they called back and said they would accept our original offer... yay!
We had to think about it... meanwhile...
This house that Coby had seen before came up in our "just looking" search again...but was still
under contract.
I still did not pay attention... it was way out of our league... almost twice as big as our house, in another favorite neighborhood, and the price was too good to be true... (less than our current house!)
and Under Contract.
We were praying about our other offer on the other house one night...
The next day we both thought we should call on that house under contract.
I called ... reluctantly... She said...
"oh, that house went back on the market last night because financing failed..."
"I said, oh, we want to see it!" If any of you KNOW Coby, you know he was giving me a look, he does not rush into things! (even looking at houses!)
Then she said, "ok, oh and hey they lowered the price by 20 thousand this morning"!!!
I said, "We want to make an offer!"
Can you imagine Coby's look NOW?!!! Yeah, he was not thrilled... and started backing out... and away...So, I said... "ok, we want to see it first, but, bring the paperwork, we will make an offer!"
and we did! We saw the house and felt so good about it that EVEN Coby was ready to make an offer, however he wanted to offer 10 Thousand less! I was now giving him the LOOK.
Well, they accepted our offer by the afternoon (It was Fannie May Owned) But, they wanted to close in TWO WEEKS!!! So, it happened January 31st we closed on our new home!
Coby also started a new PT job in a new clinic on the same day! (another story...)

Here's what the kids had to say:
Keedon: Do I get my own room?
Quinton: Can I live in the playhouse under the stairs?
Cambel: Well, when we were coming to see the house he was in his room forever while we waited to leave...He came out with two backpacks full of his clothes (which to him are his jammies...)
We were laughing, but, he was serious and wouldn't get out of the car to see the house without his backpacks...While we were viewing the house...

He picked out his room, changed into his jammies, put his clothes on the closet shelf and ran through the house tumbling and jumping and rolling around on the floor... like it was his house!
Berklie: "This is my ROOOOOM?!" In her high pitched squeaky excited voice...with raised eyebrows and bright glowing smile...

We then put our current house up for rent and had a bunch of showings... Our renters right now are awesome! We really couldn't have sought out good renters and had such a thorough lease without Shannon... she walked me through the whole thing... her and Adam are rental pros!
Our renters needed the house by Feb 15th... that was two weeks from our closing day...
I had to organize (stuff that I wasn't planning on going through for at least a year) and pack...
and more importantly get our house of 6 years back into shape for someone else to live there... like, patch the ceiling, paint it... patch drywall in the bathroom, downstairs, and in the garage and paint it... repaint the basement... fix all the fixups that have been on the list for years... etc...! and get the new foreclosed home into shape to move in...
It came on so sudden, and was so amazing, and went so smoothly... what a blessing!