Thursday, September 4, 2008

We Finally made it!!

We have finally arrived at our destination in Washington! We got here at 2 a.m. on Tuesday morning, thank you all to our lovely moving truck. I told Peter we are definitely not moving ourselves from here when the time comes.
We stayed in TLF the first night and then we were homeless from about 11 to 4. We are currently in an extended stay hotel until Friday morning and will be homeless again for another day unless we find a house to rent before then. We found a house yesterday that we love, but until we get our Delocation allowance it will be a little difficult to rent a place, Peter went this morning to find out about all that stuff. The neighbors were so nice and the kids played with the neighbor kids there for about three hours while we all stood around talking. It was kind of strange. We had looked at one house and had seen a few on the internet that were in the same neighborhood so we decided to go take a look at them. Well we were sitting in the driveway looking at the houses on the internet, Peter had called the realtors and they weren't going to be able to show us the house until today, when someone knocked on the window. It was the neighbor from across the street and she was wondering if we were the new renters? We told her no we were just looking and she invited us in to look at her house because it was the same floor plan (it's actually a little different but that's ok) Then it went from there. There is even an LDS family 2 houses up from where we were looking so that's pretty cool and she said they have about 500 ACTIVE members which is a huge change from Fort Walton Beach! Anyway we hope to be able to move in by this weekend but will have to see with all the finance stuff. We hope everyone else is doing well, we really miss our friends back in Fort Walton but are trying to be optimistic that we will make new friends here too!! Until next time : )

3 comments:

Carman said...

Glad to hear you made it! What area did ya'll decide to look and rent in?????

The Olson Gang said...

SHEW!! Glad to hear you made it - I've been worried.... Ya know - I have learned something in my "short" years and "few" trials :O) ...it is when you are being tested - such as you were with the truck and all - that you wonder if you are doing the right thing - that is when I have learned that YOU ARE doing the right thing - for some reason - Satan just didn't want you to make it to your destination - (that opposition in all things...) and then he wants to make you loose your faith and question everything that you are doing - if he succeeds in doing so - WAHLAH! He is winning you to his team-because... you will become negative, and not receptive to the "good" that will come your way - so GOOD FOR YOU for looking for the "GOOD" - keep looking - you will be blessed - and then again - who knows - maybe you were spared from another trial because you couldn't "travel" as quickly as you had planned....Keep your chin up! Good things take time!

Keep us posted!! We're praying for you! Love ya!

~SHERI said...

Congrats on making it! We will pray for ya'll to find the perfect place and not have many more hiccups. I WISH we lived in Washington. In the words of Napoleon..."LUCKY!"