What's Up.

I realized that some of you might wonder what's going on with us since we are kind of in limboland. Well, we're doing very well! Matt is working hard this week at our apartment "complex." We've known for a while that it needed some work. I went two weeks ago to surprise him by painting the apartment where we needed to redo the flooring--took all four girls for two days! That was kind of fun, because as he left to go down to my uncle's house to work for him, I smiled in my pjs and then ran to get everyone ready to leave in 20 minutes!

Note the lovely carpet and the princess castle... Leah spent a lot of time in the stroller!

The gold is the new color, though the blue was difficult to eradicate completely!

Matt's work has been to lay the new flooring: brazillian cherry lock n' seal laminate from Sam's Club. He did most of it in 2 days!

Home news: We listed our house on the MLS today through a flat fee broker... So we can sell our house for just a buyer's commission, but we still get to be on realtor.com. It may take a couple of days to get on realtor.com, but we're excited to see!

Matt has a job lead right now, and we're waiting on an interview.. We've talked about the trade offs that we have to work through in life: especially security and freedom. He is free right now to go and work on our rental property and on Bernie's and Curly's and our friends' place in State Center. He can trade work for beef and be his own boss while he is learning and perfecting a trade, but we don't have the security of a fat paycheck, or even a regular one. But after 2 months of freedom (while still getting paid for the jobs he does), it will be difficult to put the yoke back on to provide more security for our family. I am supportive of his desires, mostly because I know he is an eminently reasonable and rational guy and he'll find the balance he's comfortable with... I probably have more of a risk tolerance than most people. ;)

I guess time will tell. Right now it seems that the "plan" isn't quite ready, or God would have revealed it. We are more than taken care of, and haven't even drawn unemployment yet. The message right now, though, seems to be "wait patiently." Although somedays we get antsy, we're both pretty at peace with the limbo for now.. Really it's more like purgatory because we are confident that things are going to work out as soon as the waiting is over. :)