Family

Matt and I have been married for all most 5 years and together for almost 6. Over those 6 years I have become quite fond of his family. He has great aunts and uncles and all of them are not so healthy. Well Thanksgiving was a day of up and downs.
Matt's Uncle Jim has been pretty sick. Off and on he has been in the hospital or been really sick. Every time he tells me "I am not going to let this get me". I admire his strength to keep fighting. Last week he got really sick again. So sick that if another one of Matt's uncle had not stopped to visit him he would have died. He could not breath. So all week his daughter has been staying at his house. Early Thanksgiving morning Matt's parents got a call from his grandma, Jim is there and is worse. They are considering bringing him to the hospital. Well some how he managed to get through it and was able to stay for our untire dinner. However, he looked horrible. He looked super skinny, as if his clothes were going to fall off of him and he is attached to an oxygen tank. When we left I told him I hoped he started to feel better soon, expecting to hear his normal respose, I was quite surprised when I did not. He said Thanks, Matt asked if was going to be here later, he said if I make it through the night. This told me he was done fighting.
Now he is the hospital, there is nothing they can do, but wait.
He has not been my family for long, but Matt's family has accepted me and Patrick into their life with no questions. I will miss him when he is gone.

Idaho Falls House

Over the last two days I have been in Idaho Falls taking care of our house. We cleaned, shampooed carpets and painted and tonight we signed papers to sell it. It was really bitter sweet. I am happy to have it sold, we have not lived in Idaho Falls in a year and a half, but I am sad.
There are so many memories that were made in the house. That is where Matt, Patrick, and myself began our life as a family, that is where Matt became a licensed plumber, that is where I finished school, that is where Patrick grew up before my eyes.
On Monday we were there cleaning and stopped to have lunch. Matt and I sat on the hearth in front of the fire place. Matt says "we began here and we end here." When we first moved in and it was a mess we sat and ate lunch on the hearth, when it was empty and we were leaving it for good, we stopped and ate lunch on the hearth. I cried. I know, a house is a house. I am sure we will have many more to come and the memories from the 8th st house will stay with me forever, but it was my final goodbye, I am finally ending that chapter in my life.

However, the signing process was less than perfect. We were supposed to close on Monday. We got a call about 1:30 to say there was a hang up and we would not be signing. With the push from our Realtor we signed Tuesday at 4:30pm. It was a very stress 2 days and I am glad they are over!

House

They have accepted our offer on the house we submitted it on. We will be signing Dec 15 and moving in the week after Christmas (I don't want to move before christmas).

Here are some pictures of the outside of the house. It is dated and needs work on the inside, but I love it and cannot wait to move in.

New house offer

Today we went to look at yet another house and this one was a winner! We withdrew the offer on the short sale house and put an offer in on this house. We should know by Nov 5 if they will accept the offer or not. This house is a tri level home, walk in to the main level, which has the living room and kitchen. There are about 5 stairs up with 2 bed 1 bath and 5 stairs down with 1/2 bath, 1 bedroom and a family room. The house is extremely dated and needs the kitchen and bathrooms updated, but we got it for a great price. I am pretty excited about this one and can't wait!!

Halloween

Halloween is not as fun as they used to be. I no longer have the little kid so I do not get to do the fun dress up. Patrick typically will hang out with friends instead of hanging out with family. Typically my older sister has a big party and the entire family comes over so I get my little kid fix. This year her oldest, who is 17, placed in state for cross country. So on Halloween they were in Cour de leane for his race. So this year we hung out with Matt's parents, which was fun, but nothing like little kids on Halloween.
Funny how things change.