A Little More Detail about Our Happenings

So last weekend we, Jeremy, myself and Molly, flew to San Diego to get a better idea of what city and neighborhoods we would like to live in. Will stayed home with Grandma, which we felt guilty about but really it was a much better deal for him b/c we spent 9am-5pm in the car all three days, he would have gone nuts. He had a lot more fun with Grandma believe me. Molly was a rock star, didn't complain one bit, she did great on the plane, ate and slept well and once in CA, she ate breakfast at the hotel, got in the car, fell asleep, woke up, ate lunch, got in the car, fell asleep, repeat...times three days. AND she slept perfectly in the adorable crib the hotel had for us. We did manage to get in a couple minutes of pool time before dinner a few of the days. We narrowed down the areas we liked and had a pretty successful weekend. It was very stressful but successful. Here's how it all panned out...

Jeremy had to be out of town for work 2 days before we left for CA, so I was taking care of the kids and trying to think about packing...he calls and says there is a family that wants to come look at our house...Friday night! (Jeremy gets home Friday, we leave at 4am Saturday morning) So now, I'm taking care of the kids, packing AND scrubbing the house like mad to get it "showable." We get it all done, they come, their two kids have a blast playing with Will...we walk them through and talk at the end about how we are leaving for SD in the morning, but just give us a call sometime over the weekend and let us know what they think about the house. They say, okay and leave. An hour later, they call and say they want it!! Our minds are REELING!! Now we have our trip to think about with much more intensity b/c we really need a place to live and we have to think about our terms and writing up the contract, and having the lawyer draft the final contract. We're using a lawyer b/c we decided to sell the house ourselves. The market drove the value of our house down so much that we wanted to save a few bucks if we could and sell it without having to pay commission. Once we get home from our trip, we write up our terms, meet with them, they agree, lawyer writes up the contract, we meet with the notary and the rest is history. :-) They move in, we move out, August 19/20th. We're going to be staying with family until September 5th b/c my brother is getting married. So we'll be Washingtonians until then, then we'll be Californians! We're flying down to SD again next weekend to do more house searching. This time we'll concentrate on going in to as many homes as we can and actually picking one. Some of you have been asking about Will and what he thinks about all this. We haven't said much to him until the last week or so b/c initially there was no end in sight, we had no idea how long it would take to sell our house. So we've started talking about people buying our house so we can move to a house in CA, and I don't remember how it happened but Will is always talking about what is "attached" and staying here and what is "detached" and coming with us. He understands that California is far away and that you have to fly on a plane to get there. He remembers this from our trip to SD and Seaworld back in February. During that trip, the hotel had "colored cheerios" (Fruit Loops), so Will is always saying we should go to California to get some colored cheerios. I think it is so cute and I don't want him eating Fruit Loops all the time, so I haven't had the heart to tell him you can buy them in Washington too. So when Jeremy goes to CA on business....he brings back colored cheerios. :-)