Maybe for real this time...

So after finding an almost perfect house to rent last time and putting money down to hold it until we get there....the darn thing fell through. We were really quite sad but the owners of the home decided not to move to Florida as they had planned. So we were really bummed but now after much searching we found another.

This one is actually located on an island, a real island in the middle of the Puget Sound.... For those of you familiar with Western Washington we will be living on Fox Island. Yay, it will be fun, especially for the kids who have never...NEVER...seen a body of water besides a pool and turtle river...sad

So here is a snapshot of the island...check out those trees. Oh how I miss WA!



Here is the house. We were quite shocked to find it on the island especially since the average home price on the island is over 600k, ouch. So we will probably be the poor ones on the island but that is fine, we can handle that.



Now if you are up to some browsing about the area, I located a link for the Fox Island site so here you go... click here

So we are hoping this is for real this time. It should be since the house is sitting vacant and thus the owners really want to get renters in there. They even made an exception for Boca so that is great!!! Only 4 weeks left yay

5 weeks left :)

We are counting down. We have just under 5 weeks left now in ND. We found a house to rent that we love and are hoping that all the papers go through and it will be waiting for us when we arrive in WA. Yay, that would be so awesome. Here's a quick pic:

Last night I attacked Ashley's room and painted it back to the original blah cream for housing. At this moment I am quite glad that I didn't decide to paint more rooms in the house. We were expecting to be on the demolition list since we received a letter stating so over a year and and a half ago....but they backed out and are now using this housing again. So we have to do a full clean. Oh and I loved, loved, loved, how they commented during the pre-inspection that the work done in the basement was not satisfactory.....hahaahahaha....housing did it! The previous occupants put up divider walls in the basement and we have flooded about 6 times in over 2 years. So after replacing the walls twice they ended up cutting the bottom 2 feet of drywall off and just left it that way. Apparently the housing inspector didn't quite like that. :) Alright off to packing and cleaning...gotta love a DITY move!

Haircut Time...

So both kids were due for haircuts...and I got a wild hair of my own to do their haircuts myself. Ben's of course was pretty easy...just pick an attachment and go...but ashley's was a bit more challenging. I have since trimmed it a bit more since I was a tad uneven in the back but it looks pretty cute on her...Her hair was almost down to her jeans and was driving me insane because it kept tangling and getting food and paint, and glue and all other sorts of junk in it.

6 weeks left...really

We officially have just over 6 weeks left at GFAFB. So we are starting the whole separation out-processing and moving business. Yay. We are doing a DITY move since we would have to rent a trailer anyway to haul mikes car so we just thought we would do that whole thing. At least Mike has some buddies willing to help us here and I have a big family back home too. We've got our housing pre-inspection next week, so I am curious to see if they will be reusing our unit or if we will be on light cleaning status....I am seriously hoping for the latter but not expecting it.

Mike decided to join the reserves. He wasn't planning on it originally but since McChord has heavies he is certified to work on them and thus wouldn't have to retrain and so he won't have a time requirement to stay on with the reserves. The plus side and the major kicker that he signed was the health insurance option they now offer. Its really going to help us take a load off our worries. It will be very similar to what we have now and the cost isn't that bad...especially compared to other options.

And finally, Ashley had 1st parent/teacher conference at school today. Overall she is doing really well. There are a few areas that she needs to work on...but for the most part its just her stubborn attitude :) They tested her and apparently she wasn't really in the cooperative mood...but today she did much better and proved that she knew a lot of the stuff that she didn't test well on...silly girl