Suppose to...but didn't

We were scheduled to close on our house in Reno today.  We found out that our funds were not available (among other issues) and we wouldn't close till hopefully the Friday June 28th.  Oh...what stress!!  We were set to be in St. George for only 5 days and we are set to stay for 2 weeks.  It is hard to be in limbo land.  All our possessions are in storage, Stu is working in Reno and away from our family, we could lose the house we were set to get and then we would have to start all over...so stressful.  

But one thing I have found out through this whole process is that "If its meant to be, it will all work out".  For example when we discovered we could lose the house we were set to get, Stu started to look at rentals so we could be together in Reno and look for additional houses.  Every time he tried to get into a rental, he hit a brick wall.  It just wasn't meant to be.  We were directed to this house for some reason and nothing is standing in our way.  

Father's Day

Even though we were all in St. George with my grandma till our house closed in Reno, Stu was still working and had to get back to Reno on Monday.  With Father's Day on Sunday--Stu flew out of Vegas so we all drove down to Vegas to drop him off at the airport and have some dinner.  It was a quick trip, but fun to spend that extra time with Stu before he left.



Stu and Hannah at dinner

Moving Day

We closed on our house in Salt Lake and had to move everything into storage since we had a week lag time before our house in Reno would close.  We had to rent a U haul truck or else we would be making a dozen trips back and forth and spend all night moving our stuff.  We had all our family come out and help which made the process run so much quicker. 

 The U haul truck.  We ended up filling it 3 times I think

Hannah found her swimming suit and wanted to put it on and wanted to get into her bed right before we were going to take it apart.  She pretty much got to do anything she wanted since I knew this transition would be a challenge 

 Our master bedroom all cleaned out

 Last picture in our house.  This was after moving the night before, not much sleep and cleaning the next day before getting into a car for St. George. Whew...it was a long few days

This was the BIGGEST locker you could get.  We packed it all in and STILL had to send stuff home with parents.  Stu was just glad it was all over

Almost 2...22 months old

I can't believe I almost have a 2 year old.  Really??  Where did the time go??  Hannah has been busy in the last month.  She isn't 'talking' yet, but she is getting close.  We are still working through the 'unn..unnn.' and pointing to what she wants.  So once we find out what she wants we have her repeat it.  "you want water"?  "Say water".  So its a work in progress.  I can honestly say that is one thing I was not prepared for, being a parent.  Talking-I honestly thought they just start talking.  Silly me-

Here is what we learned from Hannah in the last month:
*She says "Pickle"
*Got another bad cold
*Likes to have socks on when she goes to bed and will NOT go to sleep till they are on
*LOVES to do puzzles.  On the computer or actual puzzles.  She is getting quite good with them
*Has found out that bandaids area  great fashion accessory.  She had some on her arm for a week
*Discovered screaming for fun..is fun.  This seems to happen during dinner and in the car

Nicknames:
Stink bug 


She is a good 'mamma'  and pushes her baby in the stroller.  She also uses that stroller to torment the dog and chase him around


Caught her on the move

And it begins

Our house has become overwhelmed by boxes.  Its the story of our life now.  We are hoping (yes HOPING) we have enough room in the storage unit to fit the whole house.  Stu has been stacking boxes in the unit to the ceiling!  

Official moving date: June 13th.  Thank goodness that is not a Friday, don't want the bad omen of Friday the 13th looming on us.

We FINALLY went to court

We have been trying to go to court over this mold problem we discovered in our wall.  (Read more here if interested in the whole mold story, scroll towards the bottom for the story) and today we finally had court date.  
We of course were super nervous about everything.  The judge was seeing 25 cases today and we decided to do mediation (thankfully cuz our case was 2nd to last).  Mediation took about an hour or so and we came out winning back 1/2 of what we originally wanted.  We decided to cut our losses and just move on and be glad we got what we did.  If we went before a judge it could have gone in our favor (we would have won all our $) or we could have loss more than we were going to be awarded in mediation.  My gambling skills are not good and I tend to be the bad penny when it comes to gambling, so we decided to take what they were willing to give us and run.  
We are happy it is FINALLY over!

Here we are after we 'won' our case

Going Away Party

My BFF Kristie gave us a going away party today.  It was so nice to see all my friends and to say good bye to them.  I know its not forever, when we come to visit we will see them.  It's been to nice to know that we are loved by so many.

Kristie's kids picked out the cake.  She had to do a 'spin' on the musical notes to make it work!  I think it turned out perfect

Also later that night Stu's friends gave us a sending off.  Dinner and dessert at our house.  Talking till 1AM!!  Good times!