So our house is sold and we have finally FINALLY found another one. We were able to go to Rapid City this past weekend, childless as Grandpa and Grandma Sybesma watched the kids for us for 3 days. Wow would it have been really crazy tiring and frustrating had we had the kids with us. I think we looked at like 40 houses or so. Guess which one we picked….the last one that we happened to have found. We found one we liked the day before but it had several things that needed to be changed and it only had 1 stall garage. The cool thing is, “God is an awesome God and boy is he blessing us with this house” All through out this process of selling the house has been on God’s terms and not ours. 4 years ago we tried selling the house 2 different times and it fell through with little interest. Over a year or more ago, Keith started talking about moving to Rapid City as well as changing jobs. Well this past year God has been working on me to consider moving to Rapid City which i did reluctantly because we have always talked about moving to Sioux Falls. To be quite honest, i have fallen in love with Seward and have made many great friends that i don’t want to say goodbye too. They are some of the best friends that i have in this stage of my life. But again we decided to consider selling the house because we have now out grown it and Keith had gotten a new job. So we decided to call the realtor and see what she had to say. We felt that if she had good things to say that God wanted us to do this. After she left, we knew we had to put the house on the market. After a few months of being on the market and cleaning the house for open houses or showings ever 2 weeks, i was really getting sick of it. I had just spent another 2 days of packing for a long weekend to SD and cleaning for an open house. As i showered before getting ready to leave, i silently talked to God, I said i am really getting tired of this and if you are going to do this, please do it now. So as we pulled out of town and onto a road only 20 minutes out of Seward, our realtor calls and says, i have a showing at 8:00 tomorrow morning and i have no idea how you are going to get the house cleaned and get the kids out of the house by that time. I was excited and said, it wasn’t a problem because we are gone and the house is clean for the open house that Sunday. So she showed the house, and by Friday we had an offer and with negotiations we had a deal to sell the house. Wow that was really really easy and such an answer to prayer. We were so happy to be under contract. Thankfully the inspection and appraisal went smoothly with a few fixes here and there. So ahead a few weeks and i am getting a little nervous that we don’t have a place to live and we are a month away from closing and we decide to head to Rapid to look at a few houses we have found online. The 2nd day of house shopping was exhausting and i am getting a little frustrated that we can’t find much that doesn’t need a lot of work, until Monday at noon we find our place!!! Now here is where i feel God is really blessing us. This house has everything that was on our list of needs and even our list of wants. Not to mention things that would be really nice down the road as updates. We hadn’t even walked into the basement and i was getting so excited, walking out of the laundry room i was bouncing up and down squealing and begging Keith to please please please lets make an offer on it. We were very eager to put an offer on the house i forgot to take pictures but we were in a hurry to get it done because there was a showing that morning as well. So Keith and I hurried to pack up so we could get to the realtors office to make our offer. On our way the phone rang and my heart sank, i first thought the house was gone and then as i listened the house had 2 other offers on it and 1 had been countered. We had to hurry! i felt as if our dream home was slipping out of our hands. But i felt that God was saying keep going, trust me! So we did. We got our offer in and for the next 24 hours, with anxious hearts and LOTS LOTSA praying we waited. During that time I went from, this is going to happen, we have got to get this house to what if we dont, whats our next step. To begging God, please you have got to bring us this house to surrenduring to God that he has a bigger plan for us. At one point i was even thinking God am i important enough or good enough to receive a blessing of getting this house with everything that we wanted. Am i that precious to receive such a gift as simple as a house. I know that i am that precious and important that he sent his Son but would God really bless us with a blessing of a house that has everything that we want or need at this point in our life? Yes I am a little shallow about this but there was a point before we even sold the house that God was speaking to me that there will be blessings. But i also felt i had to ask him to bless us. I did! The point of this all is to remind me that God is a gracious God and he does offer blessings, even more than what i ask for. Wow i can’t believe the coolness of my God that he wants to even bless the shallow desires of my heart. So needless to say after a day of waiting and being on a roller coaster of what if they accept our offer or not. When Keith came out to tell me we had good and bad news and the bad news was we had to pay for an inspection. I didn’t quite get it but once it dawned on me i was screaming and jumping up and down and we were telling the kids that we have a house and screaming again. My poor dad had to cover his ears. To be quite honest the feelings that were going through my heart were the same feelings i had when we found out we were expecting each of our kids. And the joy that followed after getting to hold them because God has just blessed us with another gift, granted a house is nothing compared to holding your children in your arms. We are so excited to show the kids the house. We showed Gavin pictures and he is so excited to paint his room, even uncle Jake said he would come and help. Gavin wants his room to be Red and Black and all the other colors and he wants a big boy bed and spider man or something on the bed.  I am really excited to have Kamea in her own room and hopefully get her sleeping a little better where she wont be woke up every few minutes from her big brother.
Now that we are back in Seward (do i call it home?) we spent the day getting our inspection and insurance stuff figured out making for a stressful day with kids being a tad grumpy and us all being tired.  Not to mention a few repairs to this house being completed including a different microwave since our other one died being installed. It has been a very full last few days. We as that you pray for everything to go smooth and that our house will be sold as planned and that the house we are purchasing goes through without a hitch. Now on to packing and planning on how to get our stuff moved.
Here are a few pictures of our new house.
Congrats! It looks wonderful!!
Thanks! We are excited to move there!