Bad news for us

So after we got all excited about getting into a house for a great deal we talked to the owner. He told us his daughter has decided to stay there she says just for 6 months, but the owner thinks more like until the end of the school year. We will get first dibs once they do decide to move, but until then we are just stuck waiting. We are kind of thinking if we can get financed at the beginning on next year when Jordon has been at his job a little longer then we could maybe get them to push her out because they could sell it to us. Who knows though. In the meantime, we are trying to decide if we should find a place to rent or if we should just stick it out here until they decide to move.
On the other hand, school seems to be going well for everyone. Ashley did some assessments this week at school and the school was able to get approved for another half day Kindergarten class so she will have a new teacher on Monday with only 20 students in her class instead of the 33 like she had the first week of school. Hopefully some of her new friends will be in her new class as well. Guess we'll see.

Jr. Peach Days Parade

Ashley and Ethan got to be on their school's Jr. Peach Day Parade float (if you can call it that). Here is there pictures from it. Sam got to watch it all with his cousin Avery (Cory and Lindsey's daughter).

First Days of School Pictures

Here are some pictures from the kids' first day of school.

This was actually from Sam's second day of school because I forgot to take pictures of him on his first day.

Time is Flying!

It doesn't seem like it should be September already. This last month has definitely flown by. During August we spent a lot of time packing up and moving all of our things to storage and we are currently staying at Jordon's mom's house. We moved there so we could get the kids in school in Brigham so that they wouldn't have to transfer schools after just a few weeks.
Things have seemed to fall into place for us. We got the kids registered for school and they started on Mon. Aug. 29. They ride the bus and both Ethan and Ashley love it! Ashley even says she has made a few friends. She is actually disappointed because this coming week she doesn't have school at all. They are doing assessments so each child goes at a set time and she wants to go all week not just on her day. So instead she gets to go to Sam's "school".
I also started school again doing online classes through USU. Because of the gap between the last time I attended school and now I actually qualified for a program called Students with Children. Through this program I am eligible for the program to buy my books for my classes and I also can enroll my kids in the on-campus daycare/preschool for free. This is for me to use while I am at class, studying, or using the facilities on campus. Because I am in all online classes I just use the time to get homework done and study. Sam was really excited to have a "school" of his own. He loves it and also says he has made new friends.
We were going to look for a house to do a rent to own on, but it was looking like that would take a while before we could find anything so we were about to start looking for a house to rent, when we got a phone call from Jordon's grandma, Linda. A couple in her ward have a home that currently their daughter's family is living in, but will be moving soon. Her daughters are attending school in Roy so they are looking for a place to move to down there. This couple lives in Oregon and own a house up there too. They originally wanted to sell us the home for $150,000, but with Jordon not being on his job not very long we didn't think we would qualify for anything yet. Linda told us they would probably do a rent to own, but wanting to sell it for that much we thought the rent would probably be around $1000 a month and we just can't afford that, so we didn't even go to look at it. Linda came over the next day and said they really wanted to show it to us and that they said they would work with us. She said we could maybe just tell them how much our max rent we could afford would be and see if they could do it. So I went to look at the house with her and I loved it. It is a 5 bedroom, 2 bath home with a shop out back and lots of storage. They have updated all of it so there isn't really anything we would  need to improve on it. We finished the tour and Linda asked him what they were thinking of for rent. He said they would like $700 a month with $100 deposit and they would do a rent to own. I told him we definitely wanted it. So that night I took Jordon back so he could see it. We will get to move in as soon as their daughter moves out. We're not sure when that will be, but she said for sure before the end of October. We are hoping sooner than that, but we will see.
I think that is about all of our updates for now so I will post again when we have some more updates. I will try to post pictures of the kids' first day of school soon as well.