Home Sweet Where?

Above: These mountains are called the Bookcliffs, with Mount Garfield on the end. These mountains are on the northern side of the valley.

Above: This is the Colorado National Monument. This on the sounthern side of the valley.

Above: This is the Grand Mesa. The world's largest flat-top mountain. There are over 200 lakes that are great for fishing and camping. Also Powdernhorn ski resort is located here. The Grand Mesa is to the east of Grand Junction.

This will be our new home!

Here is Grand Junction: Population is 100,000, there is one mall, but I am excited to have the option of shopping at Old Navy and Kohls now! Denver is 4 hours away and that is where I will have to go to do more serious shopping like my favorite Children's Place.

Our House. We went out over Spring Break to find a house and we did. It is a cool story so here you go. We were looking for a 4 bedroom house that had 2 living spaces so that Luke could have a YL meeting and I don't have to hide somewhere. With the market being soft we were hoping to find a house that we could have our family grow and the girls to be able to have their own space when they are older. And so we chose the first house we looked at. It is old, built in '66, the description of it was stately. Which is not Luke and I's style but it has such a homey feel we were soon over it. It has 2 living rooms a dining room. Lots of window and sunlight coming through. A huge backyard with a porch, lots of land behind us that we saw kids exploring in. The master bed and bath are not a dream come true because it is old. But it has an unfinished basement and so someday we will redo the basement and then we can take out an upstairs bedroom and make it part of the master. Lots of space and lots of hidden potential. But we can move in and have lots of space right away. we will not be doing in projects any time soon.

So we decided to make an offer on the house. The asking price was out of our comfort level. So we offered 14,oo0 less than they were asking. Our Realtor mentioned that others had said they were going to put offers on this house too. We did not know if that was a bluff, or just talk or what. The next day we got a call that there were 2 additional offers on the house. How high are we willing to go? WHAT? This house has been on the market for over a month they had moved out, and now we have competition. At this point I was not going to get attached to this house because we did not want to end up paying more than we were comfortable. We said we can not do much more and hope for the best. The next day we get a call from our Realtor, Well they want to go with you, they countered $3,000 more, and I won't take a commission and the other relator will pitch in some too. What about the other offers? They were significantly more than yours but the family really wanted to go with you. My heart swelled with such a blessing. Our relator had given the sellers an idea of who we were and how we wanted to raise our young family in this home and to do ministry. I could tell that both the relators and the family worked so hard to make this work. I know that we are paying for this house but it just felt like such a gift. We got a great interest rate and our house payment is exactly where we are comfortable. Confirmation that God will take care of us. If we ask for bread will he give us a stone? No your Father above wants to give you "good things". The home is such a huge piece of me feeling at home in GJ. I feel so blessed!

We close on April 27th we will move the first week of May! Please pray that we sell our home in Manhattan. I know that this too will be a God thing.