Long month...

Ok so it has been over a month now since we updated and it seems like a lot has happened since then, yet we are still in the same place we were since we last talked. Anyway so the down and dirty is that we decided it is time to buy a house. We fell in love with a huge house in Guthrie which is what the slide show is of. After over a week of negotiating we settled on a price and then went to work on getting it inspected. It needs a LOT of work, which would take several years and several thousand $$$$ to complete. Well it now looks like the bank won't loan on the house unless we fix it up first?!?! We don't exactly have the $50k-$80k it would take so unless God really wants us to have this house right now it looks like we might just hope for sometime in the future. The appraiser didn't even finish the appraisal and said it is not worth the purchase price so there is not way we would get the loan anyway. This last month has been a good experience with getting our feet wet in real estate. We are now looking at getting two small houses. One to live in and one to rent. Then we can slowly upgrade over the years as our income increases and continue to acquire real estate as we go. We would still like to buy a house before Nov. 31 so we can get the tax rebate. We are going to look at a few houses in Guthrie on Monday.

We are keeping the door open for the first house we want just in case God blesses us with some financial miracle. We have gone back and forth on this house that I don't even know what I want anymore. This is a good thing for me, I think, because I know my emotions and desires shouldn't get in the way of what God is trying to do so hopefully I will be more receptive to what God is trying to tell us. Either way I it looks we are about to be in the middle of a change of seasons in our lives. We will be buying a house(s), changing jobs, moving cities, contemplating children, finishing school and beginning civilian pilot training. The next 3 months should be very revealing of what the next 5 years will produce in our lives.

So essentially nothing physical has changed in the last month but there have been many hours of thinking about what is about to change. We will update again when something changes....or after many more hours of thinking about it.

We appreciate all of your prayers and welcome any advice you may have for what we are experienceing. See you later.