Welcome to GANDY LAND

Well we are here! 

In our new home & can I just say 

I AM IN LOVE

We have been here just shy of one month. I can hardly believe it! Time sure flies when your having fun and enjoying your home and life. 

Here are some pictures of our home I wanted to share :)

Kids Bathroom

Our Bathroom

View from my kitchen window

The street we live off of, our driveway is behind me in this photo

Our Neeeeeybors :) These beauties surround us on the side on back of our home

Shelby outside in the sunshine, sitting in our driveway playing with rocks

 

 Getting some Vitamin-D out our front window

 Our first house warming gift from my Bestie. Found the perfect spot for it

 Michael's Room

Laundry Room

Shelby's Room

Our new to us car

 A pano of our back yard

A pano of the inside of the house, bless the mess

 A pano from our front door

The entrance to our driveway

 The driveway

 Part of our property, there is a lot of garbage to clean up and yard work to be done but we are up for the challenge. The potential this place has gets me so excited!

More of the property

 These two outbuildings used to be a chicken coup and a goat barn. We cleaned out one and fixed it up to be a storage shed since we do not have a garage.

 Part of the front yard

The rest of the driveway

 A pano of the field outside my dining room window

A "little" moving anxiety

This past week has been absolutely caotic. Between my brother flying home for the week, my mom leaving town for the weekend, my inlaws visiting, selling our car and purchasing a new to us vehicle, oh and on top of all that packing up our home! To say the least my hair is a hot crazy mess and for good reason. 

This crazy mess we are in is defiantly having an effect on Michael. Everyday he is seeing less and less of our things as they get packed. Tonight he finally lost it and started crying. "But mommy, why are you taking all my things away?"

I explained we needed to pack everything up so we can take it to our new home. He asked what home and I told him but then he said he didn't like that home. He liked "this home."

I showed him the truck we were renting to take everything to our new home and showed him what pictures I had of our new place. His next question made me laugh, "but mommy, what about our food? Is our food going there?". I showed him in the picture where our kitchen was and thats where all our food is going. He relaxed quite a bit. I asked him if he wanted to help put things away and he passed and said Shelby can help me.

There has just been too much going on for the little guy and I can't blame him one bit for getting upset. He needs some stability and normal back. Just a few more days of all this crazy mess and then Shelby and Michael get to head to woodland to play on my aunts property for the day while we move. They adore her home and all the room they have to run, and the undivided Attention they receive. 

We don't think it will take too long to get everything moved. My plan is while the guys are unloading is to focus on the kids rooms so they have their space ready when they return later on that evening. I am hoping that once they see their things they will both be at ease once again and be happy for our fresh start in our beautiful new home. 

In GOD's time

Today I am happy and over joyed to report

!!!!!!!! WE ARE MOVING !!!!!!!!

We received confirmation Monday eve and couldn't be happier.
My husband was working,
so I had to call him to tell him the great news!
First thing he said:
"Praise be to GOD"

I was so overjoyed and filled with excitement that I hadn't even taking a moment to praise GOD.
My husbands few words grounded my soul.
I had an overwhelming sense of thank fullness at that moment,
and knew this was God's doing, on his time.

We have prayed, together, apart, driving, crying. We have prayed. We have looked at multiple properties, and for what ever the reason we had not been chosen. My husband or myself didn't understand but on Monday we did.

I found the add for our new home online. The listing didn't have a picture, and I usually brush past those postings. I need an initial visual. Something in my gut made me click on the link just to check it out. I liked what the posting said so I contacted the landlord.

2 days later we were at the property, fell in LOVE, and put in our application.

When we got home we saw the listing had been deleted, and our hearts had sunk. We knew there had been a huge interest in the property, and felt they had gone with someone else.

4 days later we got the exciting call while we were grocery shopping that they were reviewing our app and making the necessary calls to confirm everything.

My husbands smile he gave me at the grocery store sent this surge of excitement from the tips of my toes to the tips of my fingers. I started to tremble. I had a huge list of things we needed, and I couldn't focus to save my life. I was just, HAPPY.

Monday eve, we got the all clear, and I have been on cloud 9 since. It's so surreal to me this is actually happening! We have been in this home for almost 6 years and are on top of each other. Now we are moving to a place where both the kids will have their own rooms, and we have land to play to move. I am most excited for my kids. The freedom they will have, the beautiful fresh air they will breath, and the shining stars they will get to see at night.

Praise be to GOD
with him, all things are possible