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Here we are in California

Grace and Evan Easter Sunday

Our new home

Gracee's Birthday party

Grace and Mommy getting a pedicure for Gracee's birthday

It has been an eventful 3 weeks. We have settled into our friends home for the short term, Grace is enrolled in school, the kids are signed up for soccer, dentist and Dr. appointments are made, we are still looking for a church, finding a preschool for Evan for next year, picked out flooring for our new home...and we have a buyer for our Oregon house! The day we had the packers at our house on March 17th, a person looked at our house that night with everything in boxes and decided to buy our home. It looks like we will close sometime next week. We are doing an unconventional sale on a contract to buy... similar to a lease to own option. We will make no money on this deal, but we are happy to unload our house in Oregon, so we have one less thing to worry about. Our new home will close May 21st. We locked in our rate at 4.875% I am so happy about that! I am excited for everything to be new in our home.

Grace had her first day of school yesterday. She is the 8th girl in her class, and there are 14 boys. This morning I met with her teacher and talk about the curriculum. They seem to have way higher expectations than Kindergarten in Oregon. I have a feeling I will be working really hard over the next 8 weeks to catch her up. I left the school after the meeting today, to get a phone call a half hour later that Gracee was throwing up. Here we are the 2nd day at her new school....only happens in my world people :-) Evan had a virus like that last week that last 5 days, so I am hoping that this is short lived and the rest of us don't get it.

We had a nice Easter weekend. On Good Friday, we went to a baseball game with the kids...The Padres against the Lake Elsinore Storm. Evan threw up at the game, so we had to leave early. Saturday morning we went to an Easter egg hunt. On Sunday, we went to a church for Easter, and then I cooked a roast for Easter dinner. Oh yes, we did feel the earthquake on Sunday. It was located just over the border in Mexico. We felt a slight rolling, but not a whole lot. Friends further south from us felt much more.

David is loving his new job, and I am thankful he is home more in the evening, not stressing about work anymore. It is a blessed relief. He does have some schools that he will attend for six weeks to continue some job training. He will only be home on the weekends then.

Off for now...................

Last Week

Grandma Ellen and her younger brother Uncle Bob
Gracee's last Birthday

Here I sit, getting ready for the next 9 days of craziness. The movers will be here starting Wednesday to start packing. We also will be celebrating Gracee's 6th Birthday this week. The truck will load up our stuff next Monday, and we will leave on Tuesday. Between the packers, Gracee's birthday, cleaning the house, separating things to take in the car with us, realtors and potential renters in and out, family coming to town, David arriving, last day of school for Grace, saying many goodbyes and fighting a cold, I hope I get to take a lot of naps on our drive down.

We have gone with a new builder: K. Hovnanian homes. We are happier with the level of service we are receiving, better school for the kids, and a better closing date for us on the house. We should be moving in, the beginning of June. I am not too excited yet, as we are still waiting on renters or buyers for our current home.

Last weekend, we celebrated my Grandmother's 90th Birthday. It was fun to see family members that I have not seen in awhile.

That's the news for now......until California