Here We Go...Again!

It seems sureal to be entering into a new chapter in our lives. A chapter I never thought we would open because it wasn't part of our plans but it kind of fell into our laps and we had to jump. In my 37 years I've learned when Heavenly Father shows you Option B you take it. This definitely started as a leap of faith but as we stepped into the dark the light kept lighting the way and we have come to complete peace and seen the miracles unfold. So Andy was approached by Corinne, a girl that he covered vacation for in Bountiful for the past year, back in November and she told him she was going to give notice at her job and move back to Florida. She told him how she was dreading it because she didn't want to leave her bosses hanging. Andy told her that he would love to be considered for the position and she said that she would let them know when she gave her notice. Andy talked to the group and went through the whole interview process and after several weeks was offered the position. This is where the roller coaster begins. On paper, it was a no brainer to take the position, 26 weeks call-every other week off, but I don't know if it's pride or what but it's hard to trust when you don't see the whole picture. We were comfortable where we're at, we love our house, our kids are great, Andy was loving serving in the Bishopric, everything in life was fine. And that's the problem, we were comfortable and Heavenly Father wants us to stretch and grow to become better, not just fine. Although we had complete peace from the day this was even just a possibility the reality was a whole different ball game. Through the process of trying to see if this would really work out we came to the realization that we would have to move closer to Bountiful. That was a hard reality to face. We love our house and have worked so hard thinking it would be our forever home. But as we went with the idea of moving everything started to make sense and we were even excited at the possibilities. This is not to say this made it easier, but it helped. We looked at Bountiful and I wasn't feeling it. Andy went up and looked around Kaysville and thought we could make something work but when we went back up together to look nothing seemed right. We went into it thinking we would buy existing but after 5 minutes of looking online we knew that wasn't right. So we went and talked with a few builders and walked away with pits in our stomachs. It wasn't right either. I told Andy, "Do you want to build again?" It wasn't a question of wanting to or not, we just couldn't find land that wasn't attached to a builder. I was running on the treadmill and saw an advertisement about realtor.com and thought maybe they do have more options than the websites we were looking at? I had the thought to look at Farmington. Somewhere we never even considered. It's more expensive and has less options so we ruled it out before we even gave it a chance. While I was looking at land on realtor I added surrounding areas and clicked on Farmington and there it was. Our lot. I thought for sure I would call and they would tell me the builder who owns the lot to build on it but to my surprise it had the option to bring your own builder. Andy drove up and looked at it and said, "This is it!" We went up the next day to look at it with the kids and it just felt right. It's so different than anywhere else we've ever lived since it's not in a neighborhood but there's no denying that it was right. The blessings continued to flow as we had to finish the projects on the house so we could sell it. We put our nose to the grindstone and worked our tails off and things just flowed and came together seamlessly. Seriously, we got months worth of work done in weeks. It was a miracle. In 6 weeks we were able to trim and paint all the windows and put up window coverings, build and paint all the cabinetry in the laundry room, finish up the details in the powder bath, build and paint the built-ins in the family room, and paint of all the baseboards and staircase on the main level. Then the week we were going to put the house officially on the market we had a family from church approach us to walk through our house. They fell in love with it and come back the next day and we settled on a price that we’re both happy with. It couldn’t be more perfect of a situation. I feel so much gratitude to my Heavenly Father for really carrying us during this time. There's no denying that this is where He wants us to be and I'm so grateful that He trusts us to do this. I don't know what the future holds but we move forward with faith and with so much hope that this will turn out better than our wildest dreams. I told Andy someday we'll look back at this time in our lives and we'll be able to see all the blessings. This I know to be true and I can't wait to see it all unfold.