There is no way that we could have handle one more thing in July. We literally broke some records (ask our realtor). It was so full of emotions, good and bad, and we were mentally, emotionally and physically at the end of our ropes. On July 2nd the four of us (doesn't that sound amazing? FOUR of us? Love that! But I guess I'm getting sidetracked....) so anyways the four of us flew to Nevada so we could go spend the Fourth of July with Mom and Dad and the Olsons. We were so excited to take the kids and have a little vacation together. First of all, I have to mention that Adam had been having interviews in Utah. We got one official offer before we left to Nevada and told that company that we needed a few days to think things through. What we did not tell them is that we were also expecting an offer from a second company. Sure enough the second company made an offer and on July 3rd Adam accepted. Starting August 4th Adam was gonna work for Gild. That meant that we only had a couple of fun days left before an insane month would start.
I love how much my boys look alike. And look at those necks!!!
On our way to the airport. It was gonna be Hailee's very first trip on a plane!
Let the good times roll!
Josan isnt the only one that looks like Adam. Look at the twin besties....
My new babies. Love running in new shoes!
Time to go back. We never want to leave Grandma and Grandpa's. But this time was multiplied by about 3 millions...
Let the crazy insane stressful month begin! We got back from our trip on the 7th of July. That gave us about 5 days to clean and stage the house from top to bottom. On July 12th our house was officially on the market. We got a couple of showings every day until the 14th when we got our first offer (at listing price) and had 2 more buyers that were waiting to see if the first offer would fall through. With some negotiations we were under contract on July 15th with our closing date on August 2nd. And yes, we took that as yet another sign that we were doing the right thing. Adam's starting date was on August 4th and closing on the 2nd? Definitely not a coincidence. But then the buyer actually moved the closing date to July 31st. And then finally to July 29th. Even better! But that meant that we only had exactly 2 weeks to fix up the little things from the contract, figure out a good situation for Hailee and organize, pack and load our 2200 sq feet home! So that's what we did. Almost every waking minute was spent on that. It was a very stressful situation. Especially that we were told to not officially tell Hailee until her therapist would come around to it. So the poor thing saw all our things get packed away without knowing what that meant for her for quite some time.
We still tried to have SOME fun here and there. Our Foster Agency had those Summer O Fun days. The kids loved it!
I just cant help myself posting another one of my boys. I LOVE these 2!
The kids ready to race
Firemen are awesome!
Back in the crazy house
Another little fun bubble for every one's sake
And that was Hailee's first time to te zoo. She LOVES animals so she was in heaven
This was our very last picture as a family of four. Now for most people it probably doesnt make sense how we say OUR daughter and family of FOUR. But when you do foster care you give it your all. Every little bit of it. You care for those children as much as you would for your own. So while we had Hailee she was not our "foster" daughter she was OURS. She was part of US. We sure were very blessed to be able to have her with us even for those 5 short weeks.
We decided on celebrating Hailee's birthday with her new foster parents and a bunch of new friends. We really wanted to be part of it as well. She deserved to be celebrated as much as possible after all.
Hailee is such a strong, tough little girl. Too much so for her age actually. She did not want to talk or even think about the sadness she was feeling. So we tried not to bring it up. But as I held her for one last long and tight hug I couldn't help myself. I had to tell her how much I loved her and how much I would miss her. She allowed herself to feel sad for about 5 seconds before jumping on the first distraction she could find. We just hope and pray that she is and always will be as happy as she deserves to be from now on...
This was another hard one for me. I've always carried my wedding bouquet through the moves. But I felt like this one was gonna be one too many. It was hard throwing my 7 years old bouquet away...
The house we are about to sign away. Definitely feeling the
"bitter" more than the "sweet" right now...
Our last family picture there...
Since everything we own was loaded up we had 2 options for our last night in Colorado: stay in a hotel or have a sleep over at our awesome friends the Clarks'. The choice wasn't hard to make. (Thanks again for everything guys!)
See ya Colorado!
Yep...this is SO fun...
Moving sure is exhausting!
We're back!!!!
Since we had a total of 3 weeks between the job offer and closing on our house we obviously did not have any time to find a place for us to live. So my amazing friend Laura let us stay over at her house for as long as we needed. She also helped us so much with the actual move and is still storing like half of our things at her house. We are so thankful for all her help!!
So like I said July sure was hard. Physically so overwhelming. But that was still nothing compared to how emotionally exhausting it was. I'm so grateful that I had these two to get me through all this!
So let me sum up July again. Just cause it looks even worse this way;)
June 30th: Adam gets job offers
July 2nd : The 4 of us fly to Nevada
July 3rd : Adam accept a job offer
July 4th : We celebrate our country
July 7th : We fly back to Colorado
July 8th : We clean and stage. It takes us 4 days
July 12th : Our house is officially for sale
July 14th : We have our first offer with 2 back up buyers
July 15th : We are under contract. Closing date is on the 29th. That gives us exactly 2 weeks to pack and load everything
July 26th : We celebrate Hailee's birthday early and say goodbye
July 28th : We get a Uhaul and load everything in
July 29th : We sign our house away and we're off to our next adventure!
Am I the only one that's completely drained out just reading this? It was hard. Way hard. But we know through lots of thinking, praying and fasting that it was the right thing for us to do at this time of our lives. And even though July only seems like one huge blurry day I'm so thankful for how things went. It feels like all the puzzle pieces got put together exactly how it was supposed to and we had very little say about it. We just had to go with the flow. So we went with it! :)
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