Home Sweet Home

It looks like we FINALLY found a place to live. Our search for a home has been quite a journey. As soon as Spencer found out he got the job, we started looking for places to rent. When we discovered that it would be cheaper to have mortgage payments than to rent, we decided to look for a house to buy. The first house we found did not pass the home inspection, so we put an offer on another one that passed the inspection. We were so excited to be home owners again. Just 3 days before we were going to close on the house, Spencer was told that he might lose his job due to budget cuts. He was told that if he didn't lose his job now, he might lose it before next school year. We got scared and decided not to buy the house or any other house. So back to looking for a place to rent. We were having a hard time finding something that we liked that was in a good location that was in our price range. After a couple weeks of looking, we found an old 5 bedroom farmhouse that we really like. It's by far the biggest house we looked at, and it's also in a great location, very close to Brendan's school, and just 18 minutes from Spencer's school (according to yahoo maps). Hopefully we'll move in about 2 weeks.

Pumpkins and Costumes

The boys had fun picking out their own pumpkins at the stand across the road from Grandma VanKampen's house.

Daddy had to help Grant with the slimy stuff as he wouldn't come near it. Brendan just got right in there and dug it out himself.

Jenna even got her own pumpkin.

Officer Awesome from the Halloween Police, Cowboy Brendan, and Sunflower Jenna