House Hunting

Downtown Windsor

Our new home!

Jody's new home (golf course)

This is a candy store in downtown Windsor. A billionaire owns it and wanted to make it like Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. It has every kind of candy you could think of in it. Ammon was a little overwhelmed.

We just returned from Santa Rosa. Jody's company set us up with a "rental agent" who "would know the area" and be able to set up appointments for us to find a house to rent. We won't be buying anytime soon because a 3/2 is in the 500's. Well the rental agent was a very nice woman, who got Jody lost a number of times and showed us homes we had already seen on the internet but we weren't interested in them.

To make long story short we got back to our hotel Monday night very frustrated and irritated (which isn't good when you are traveling with young children, because you tend to take it out on them). I started looking around on the internet and found a home that I wanted to go see in Windsor. The minute we drove into the neighborhood we knew we would love the home. So we found the home and tried to look inside through the windows, it was beautiful but a little above a comfortable price range for us, $2000 a month. But we were seriously starting to consider it because we had seen junkers all day and there wasn't much on the market. Luckily my outgoing husband saw a women, Rendy, getting out of her car that lived next to the home for rent. He started asking her questions about it and she was a very nice lady. We found out that she is a pharmaceutical rep too and has three kids. Right as he was leaving she told him about a home her in-laws own only a few streets away that they would be renting out June 1st. Jody made such a good impression on her that she called her in-laws right away and got the ball rolling.

Okay so I am not making this very short. We ended up talking to Rendy and her husband Christian outside of their house for two hours! They are super nice people. Christian grew up in Eureka and new of my famous baseball family and of Kalie's family (sister in-law). The next night we were able to see the home and then we went out to pizza with our new friends and were able to meet our future landlords.

The best part of this is that it is a wonderful neighborhood with tons of families, right next to a golf course, in a great ward and we already have friends. Like I said our new friends have three kids, ages 10, 7, and 5. The older two are girls who took care of Cohen both nights and the younger is a boy who Ammon had a blast with. There is also a beautiful park a few streets away that we can walk to. I know this is very cliche', but Jody and I just feel so blessed and like it was meant to be (mom and Alex I put that in for you).

Oh and in case you were wondering, we will rent an apartment that leases month to month until the house is vacant.