Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2011 and hard to believe in just two months we'll be Washingtonites.  Or is it Washingtonians? Either way, we seem to have our plans in order.  Because we were unable to sell our house, we decided to throw an ad on Craigslist and see if we could find someone to rent our house for a year.  Within hours we had an interested party and was over later in the evening to check out the place.  I knew I liked him from the start when he showed up wearing his red St. John's sweatshirt.  We've been hammering out the details of the lease and have the house rented out until 2013. 

Our original plans were to buy a house, but without the equity out of our house, we'd be putting all our cash into a down payment.  I don't know about you, but moving across the country to a new city with three kids at home, the last thing I want to worry about is whether or not I have enough money to go out for pizza after a long rainy day inside.  With that in mind, we've decided to rent.  While we were thinking about a large apartment, my mothers advice of "People above, people below...Ummmm No," has nudged us to renting a house.  We've spent some time shopping on Craigslist (man is that site sweet!) and found a bunch of houses in the Bothel area that we'd like to check out.  Next week Alicia and I are flying back out to Seattle to find our house, a school for the girls, and hopefully a Catholic parish that we like.  A tall order I know, but we have 3 days to do it...

On Wednesday, December 7th, the movers will be coming to load up our belongings and take them out to our new home.  I intenially picked the 7th as it is a day which is know for glad tidings and merriment...oh wait, St. Nicholas day is the 6th...Wait a minute... the 7th is the attack of Pearl Harbor, a "day that will live in infamy."  That will probably be more accurate anyway...

From December 7th to the 28th, we will be living up in Grey Eagle, MN with my in-laws on the farm.  I know my dad is terribly disappointed that we won't be living with them in their 2 bedroom townhouse, but hopefully we can spend a few days at their place before we go.  The day after Christmas I'll take the van on a three day journey through the most unihibited land in the great US of A.  Alicia and the girls will fly out a few days later.  That's the plan, but we all know what happens when we make plans; life.

The girls are excited for the move.  Last week Anya recieved a puzzle of America from one of her friends.  We spend an hour or so putting it together and pointing out all the different states where we people we know live.  After a few minutes, Anya turned to me asked, "Well where does Jesus live?"  I explained that he lives very far away in heaven.  She responded, "Oh!  Heaven must be in Alaska!"  I'm sure Kelley and Nick would agree.

I better get going now; it's 4:30pm on Halloween, the girls costumes have yet to be picked out, dinner is not in the oven, and Reegan has been sitting on a poop pancake for the past 20 minutes. 

Tip of the Day - People above, people below... Ummmm, No.