hogar, dulce hogar...

I tend to be long-winded, so I'm going to try using a bulleted list to sum up our journey of the past year and a half:

• spring 2011-Caleb accepted an offer to oversee the building of a cabin in Show Low 
• June 2011-realized we could buy a house and rent out our upside down death trap on Delta
• July 9, 2011-headed to Show Low for what we thought would be 2 or 3 months, leaving our house to a newly married young couple
• August 2011-had an offer accepted on a fantastic house on Inglewood
• end of September 2011-found renters for our house on Delta, kicked out the young couple, moved everything we owned into a storage unit, then backed out of our contract for the Inglewood house (toxic mold!)
• end of October 2011-Becca came back to Mesa, moved in with the Wheelers
• beginning of November 2011-Caleb came home and we moved into a temporary condo
• January 2012-began looking at houses again
• February 14, 2012-had our offer on the Kachina house accepted by the seller, but had to wait for the bank's approval
• January through April 2012-put in over 25 offers on houses all over the valley, with only the Kachina house being accepted
• April 30, 2012-Our offer on Kachina was unofficially accepted
• June 8, 2012-Kachina was offically approved, with less than 3 weeks to get financed
• July 5, 2012-we closed on the house with our backup plan of a hard money loan after asking for one extension and never hearing on a second
• July 7, 2012-moved out of the condo and into Caleb's parents' home while we painted, prepped, and cleaned the carpets at Kachina
• July 12, 2012-officially sleeping at Kachina
• November 2012-refinance finally went through, settling in to our new home!

If you notice the highlihted places, from July 9, 2011 to July 12, 2012, we lived in 6 different places!  I wish I had dealt better with the changes, and most of you know, this was a really hard time for me.  From being pregnant, to dealing with Jane's sleep issues, living above an angry woman, and having a new baby, I was not in a good emotional state.  I complained a lot.  BUT!  We are finally here, and we are so happy with here!

Let's call these the "before" picures:

dining

laundry

kitchen

1/2 bath

family room

entry

hall bath

living room

Jane's room

master

Asher's room

4th bedroom

backyard