Our story part 6

Now the date is June 2008. We decided to take our house off with the realtor and try for sale by owner. We were getting several looks but no takers. Our new house was almost finished. We celebrated Tatum's first birthday at my parents house. We had a big blow up bouncer, slip n slide and kid pool. The theme was all about 1. We had so much fun and she had a blast playing in the water and jumping. All her family and friends were there.  I cried the morning she turned 1 it was so sad the year had slipped by so quickly. She was turning into such a sweet little girl. 

In July our new house was finished and we told the builder we were not going to buy it because our house still had not sold. We were totally okay with that decision we were not going to be able to make two house payments. Dan was doing very well with his mowing business. He had an interview with his home high school but there was nothing set in stone or even a position. We were pretty sure that wasn't going to pan out. He took a leap of faith and quit his job. We knew his mowing would buy us a few months until he could find something. We were praying and thought this was the right thing to do. I was scared to death. The first week of July I found out I was pregnant. WHAT!!! I was freaking out!!! Dan had quit his job, we lived in a two bedroom house and my baby was barely 1!!! WHAT!!! This was not in the plans but we were excited and had peace about God's plan.The next week Dan got a phone call from his home town that they wanted him for the high school position. He would be working with his Mom and coaching. The same week we got a bite on our house. The couple fell in love with it and signed the contract. It was bitter sweet because we were ready to move on but that was our first house together and we had worked so hard remodeling it and getting it ready. We were also close to my parents and family.

We started packing and moved an hour East the first of August. We moved in with Dan's parents because the rent house we planned to live in was not quite ready. We closed on our house two days after school started! We paid off my student loan and our car. The only thing we had left was Dan's student loan and we decided we would start trying to get it paid off.

Whew, what a whirlwind!!! Our lives had just been turned totally upside down!! My head was spinning with all the stuff that had happened over the last two months!