Decisions

What is going on in the kids world? Amelia has been rolling from her back to her belly for almost a week now! I think its funny how she used to not like belly time until she could put herself on her belly, now she all of a sudden loves it. She only gets frustrated when she can't roll back to her back, but soon enough she will get there. It is interesting Aleigh learned belly to back before back to belly. She is 14 weeks old as of yesterday! I might even retire her 0-3month clothes today and try to sell them and use that money for 24 month size clothes for Aleigh.

Aleigh is now 15 months. She had her dr. Appointment a couple days ago. She is growing great. She is starting to lose her baby chub which is a little sad. She is now back to the 50% for height and weight. She really does NOT like the Dr. She just cries and cries and cries. I don't think the years of dr. Appts will be fun with her. Aleigh is also getting her 8th tooth in so she is very cranky, she doesnt do well while teething.

Now for the major life events. The place we are living in is going to auction the beginning of March and if it sells for cheap we just might buy it. You have to have 10% down so it would have to sell for under $90, 000 for us to buy it. It is estimated worth is $220, 000 so that would be an amazing deal! We have lived in it for 1&1/2 yrs so we know all the issues with the place. Really only small things would need to be fixed. So we are trying to figure out all the details with that to make sure it is a wise investment. Second, Jake could possibly be getting a job in Dallas, at the dallas aquarium. His coworker worked there for many years and moved up in the company. He called for Jake and talked to the person in charge and even though there isnt a position open they are very interested in him and will talk to the owner and see if they will open a position for him. They already know what position he would work in and everything. So our lives right now are in limbo. We have no idea what will happen. It could be neither and we have to just find another rental, it could be Dallas and we get pre-approved and try to immediately buy a house there, it could be no job but this house we are in now and we would own it until we move than sell it for close to what it is worth at that time. Or both this house and the job happens! Yikes! That is the scary but exciting one.

It could be such a good deal to buy this house so we cant pass it up. We are informed that if nobody else bids we could walk away buying it for a dollar. But if it was to go for our maximum amount then we took out every penny of our savings. The nice thing is apparently we will get our rent back for the last 3 months though so then we could use that towards moving costs. But the other desicion is if we buy here should we rent it for a couple years as the rental market is amazing in hawaii or do we immediately turn around and sell it. If we sold it for $200, 000 we could turn around and use that extra money for a nice house in dallas. That is what I would prefer to do but time wise I dont know how it would work out. Plus the possibilty of owning a place with no incoming rent and paying rent for another place in dallas is a little scary even though the mortgage for the auction house would be so little.

Please be praying for us as this is a true test for us to trust God in what he is doing. We are blind to many things and those things are all going to happen around the same time. The auction is in less than 3 weeks. If we dont get it we have less than 60 days to find another rental. The job in Dallas will probably let us know within the next couple weeks if they want him but apparently would want him very soon if they do. If that is the case then we have to either sell or transport all our stuff to Dallas and find a place to live there.