It's been a long time...

It's been a very long time since I have written a post on here! It is way overdue! I found blogging to be hard to commit to. Seeing as life is full of surprises, I think James and I are in a really neat part of life worth making this more of a commitment. My parents recently moved back "home" to Wisconsin. This means my family is officially split up in all different locations. Sarah (my sis) and Nat are still in Knoxville, and T.J. (bro) and Sue Ann are in Mississippi. James siblings also have left the Memphis area, plus all of our extended family is far away. That's a lot of people to live away from! Just in the past few month we have sold our first home, bought our second (which is my parents old house), and found out I am pregnant with baby #1. With all the renovations we are doing to the new house and with a baby on the way, there is a lot of updating to do. This may be a good place to keep up :)

Before mom and dad made their big move, James and I were all set to move to Texas for a job offer he took with his old company. And like life tends to do us, everything changed at once and super fast! Our first house had only been for sale a little shy of three weeks when we received an offer. In the same day he was offered a completely different job, different company. BIG DECISIONS ARE NO FUN. Can I get an amen?! Sheesh. As much as I wanted to just sit on the situation, ponder, change my mind a few times, make a list of pros and cons maybe...There was no time. The offer on the house was a really strong offer, and so was this out of the blue job offer. James still had to go through the hiring process so we really couldn't find peace with turning the house offer down, not knowing if the new job would pull through. So we speed prayed (made that up) for peace, an answer, the right direction. We had about 1 day to decide to sell our house or not.

God is faithful and His peace is beyond understanding. The fact that James and could come to the same decision with absolute peace in both our hearts was from Him, without a doubt. The decision was to go ahead and sell our house. Sad day but it was ok! Sometime after we found out the new company was a better choice than a move to Texas. We would be able to stay in Memphis, but our first home was now under contract. The new buyers wanted it pretty fast so we had about a week to move everything out before our cruise in June. We closed as soon as we got back. Where are we going to live now?!?!

I had joked with my dad over the past couple years when he talked about selling their house. How much will you sell it to me for? I was half serious. At the time I just hated to see it go to another family, but knew it was inevitable when they bought their new home in Wisconsin. Well, it fell into place perfectly that they were moving to Wisconsin this summer. Dad was putting the house up for sale when we were back from the cruise. This time, not joking, we told my dad we wanted to buy it from him. It made so much more sense for us to do this then go through the stress of house hunting again. We love my parents house and it was in a much more affordable area than where we were. I want to stay home with our kids when we have them and this was going to make it much easier on us. SO...that is basically how we came to own my parents (old) house.

More updates coming!

Hannah