Conference and The little Brick House

This weekend was pretty low key with us watching most of General Conference. Since we can only watch it on the internet, we decided this year to take turns going to the stake center and watching sessions. It's just so hard to listen to a computer at home with 2 kids to deal with. So we did that on Saturday. I stayed home with the girls for the morning session and Odessa and I stood up in front of the computer and sustained the new prophet, Thomas S Monson. Odessa loves to sustain people and is always throwing up her hand in church at the mention of anyone's name. It was a neat experience (even if we were in our pajamas). It was especially special to listen to him give his talk on Sunday morning because you could tell he had a new strength behind his words. Elder Holland even mentioned it when he spoke Sunday afternoon.

We had the Christensons over for dinner on Sunday and that was fun. The kids played together pretty well until we had a collective falling down the stairs. I knew it was only a matter of time, so I was not nearly as alarmed as I probably should have been. I have been waiting for that tumbling noise every day as I can hardly keep Ada interested in anything else than climbing those stairs. She sports another bruise on her forehead from the fall.














So, here is a photo of the little brick house Stephen and I fell in love with from a Boise real estate website. So much so, that Stephen declared he would go back to driving school bus if it meant we could move to Boise and buy that house. It sits on .26 of an acre, has a DETACHED garage and cute little cinderblock shed that the posting says would be great for food storage (random, eh?). The inside photos show all original hardwood floors, and built in shelves and closets- it's just CUTE. Sadly, we won't be moving to Boise anytime soon. We heard from the one company Stephen interviewed with that has an office in Boise and they will not be hiring him this Spring. We were dumb enough to peruse real estate websites before we actually had a job offer and now we are sad about our little brick house. As it is not likely that we could afford to buy a house in most of the other cities we are interviewing in, I will not repeat the mistake. The job hunt continues forward, we'll keep you "posted" har har.