A New Home

So our house situation has gotten ridiculous. We have been waiting patiently for our home to close since just after Thanksgiving. We originally thought that we would close on the 10th of December but found out that the bank who owned the home wasn't actually on the title. So we have been waiting the last three weeks for the bank to get their name on the title so that they could actually sell us the home.

Things were looking good the last few days, and we were thinking that it was going to get resolved by the first of the year. Then yesterday I got a phone call from our realtor saying that they had made a huge mistake and had put the wrong bank on the title. We were back to square one. We decided that this house could take another month to close which is crazy, and we aren't willing to keep our family in limbo for that long.

So we found a home in a nice subdivision that we will begin renting on January 1st. I am so excited and finally feel some stability. I am sad that we are not getting into our home that we wanted, but i feel totally relieved that we will have a place to call our own now.

Recovered from Provo Tabernacle Fire

Isn't this picture amazing. The whole picture is black from the fire except for the outline of Christ.

Lewis' Home and The Big Give

So we are staying with my cousin Rhonda and her family here in Meridian. They are amazing and so sweet to let us stay with them until our house closes. Which we still have no idea when that will happen.

The first week we got here it snowed 7 inches which is some sort of record here. They cancelled school and everything. So we went out and got our kids all of their Idaho snow gear. Presleigh went out and played in it with her cousins. I'm not a big fan of the snow anymore but when I was little we lived in Wyoming and spent all winter playing in the snow. I know that my kids are going to love the snow. The snow has completely melted now and the kids are actaully enjoying my cousin's nice big yard and trampoline.

Noah and Jake

Presleigh ready for the big give.

Presleigh stuffing her shirt full of ornaments.

Last week we were able to join in on one of my cousin's family Christmas traditions. They do a Big Give every year and it is something that we will continue on i'm sure. There were three families and we each get 20 dollars and then go out with our individual families for 1.5 hours and think of creative ways to give away our 20 dollars. The max you can give at a time is $5. It was a little tough at first trying to decided on how we were going to give it away but it was so much fun. We did a few things to get rid of our money. My favorite was we went to little caesers pizza and gave a couple in line $5 and told them that we wanted to buy them their pizza. It was so fun watching their face and seeing how surprised and grateful they were. Such a fun way to give a little back to people during the holidays.

This is Noah all bundled up for our night of the Big Give.

Thanksgiving

I uploaded something like 750 pictures from Thanksgiving. We had so much fun. It had been a really long time since we had seen a lot of the Taylor side of our family. We had a delicious dinner Thanksgiving day at the Glissmeyer home. Then we headed up to Salt Lake City for pie, a talent show, and family pictures. There were so many people there that we had to have our after thanksgiving festivites at a ward building. I think I saw Presleigh for like 5 minutes after the program was over. She played with her cousins the whole night. I guess they were playing pretend primary or something like that. So cute. I lost Noah a couple times in the building but then I figured out that he was finding stairs and climbing up and down them. I hope we get to see everyone agian soon.

A week with Juju

So after we packed up the house the kids and I left for Utah, to stay with my sister Julie for the week. It was a crazy week. The weather was totally unpredictable and we were hoping that wayne would be able to join us after a couple days there. But he got snowed in and wasn't able to leave until the day before Thanksgiving. We spent multiple days at the doctors due to me having a sinus infection and my sis having a staph infection. We were pretty much house bound the whole week and miserable. Thanks to uncle Paul who helped out so much with the kiddos and made us some yummy meals. It was so good to be able to spend time with my sister. The kids love her and uncle paul and enjoyed playing and watched quite a few movies.

Juju is due in March with her first little one.

A day at the zoo

Before we moved from Sacramento Wayne and I decided to take a break from packing and instead we took the kids to the zoo. Noah was asleep for half of it, but Presleigh loved every minute of it. She talked about it for quite a while afterwards. My favorite thing that she took from the zoo was "Lions are not nice, but someday they be nice. We hold them like puppies." The way she says it cracks me up. I'm so glad that we decided to take this much needed break.

Joy School Ends

I have been so bad about blogging ever since we found out we were moving. So these next few posts are going to be catch up posts.

One of Presleigh's last days of joy school was at the park. She got to paint and then run around with her friends all over the soccer field.

Presleigh and Kensley twirling on the soccer field.
Presleigh and Isobel Painting. Presleigh loves to paint and color.

Here are some of Presleigh's projects from Joy School.

A crazy month

November was such a quick crazy month. We put an offer in on a town home which was the exciting part of the month. We packed up our house in about 3 days and I drove to Utah with the kids to stay with my sister the week before Thanksgiving. Wayne had to work and then had to wait out a storm but then finally made it to Utah after a 14 hour drive the day before Thanksgiving. We left all of our stuff in the garage of our old house to be loaded up and shipped out to our new home once we close on our new home. . We spent the weekend of Thanksgiving with Wayne's family. We had such a good time. I love when my kids get to enjoy getting to know their cousins. From Utah we moved up to the Boise area, where we are staying with my cousin's family until our house closes. Wayne started work on Monday and is adjusting to his new office.

We were very excited to hear that we would be able to close on our home early next week, but then were disappointed when our lender said there were some issues with the title and now we have no idea when we will be able to move into our home. It's been rough being homeless the last couple weeks but hopefully we will be in our own home by Christmas.