A quick trip, spring snow & Mothers Day!

 In April LeGrand said he felt like we needed to just GO to South Carolina...I always hoped he would get a job and that would help us determine which area we were supposed to be in, but that wasnt happening.  We both seperately had kinda been drawn to the Spartanburg/Greenville area of upstate SC so we decided we should just take a trip.  I told him we should wait until his next weekend off because I wasn't quite ready - he informed me I would never be ready, he was probably right!  So away we went!  Thank heavans for our Gma Susie who always is so willing to help out - she kept and eye on the kids and we made a quick 5 day trip to find a house.

We too very few pictures - but LeGrand had to hold up traffic for a picture for the Belchers - ha!  We had some yummy food and drove and drove and drove - looking at all the houses on the market.  I decided to reach out to the local stake through FB and post that we were looking for housing and a Job - we were so fortunate to get the Tolmans to respond and invite us to dinner.  They were an amazing resource as Mike was the former bishop in the Inman ward and had great information for us - helped us narrow down our search and focus in a bit of a different area.

We didn't leave with a house, despite our endless effort.  I was discouraging and sad.  It was a long trip home and hard to tell the kids it hadn't been fully successful. The week after we got home we ended up putting a new-build house under contract.  We were wanting to be in a specific school district and stay in the inman ward with the Tolmans and the Walters (their neighbors they introduced us to) - the house said it was in that school district and the realtor also told us this...later we would find out that it was actually in a much bigger school district - not exactly what we wanted but I just kept feeling that there must be a reason because we worked so hard to be in the other and thought we were, then we weren't.

We got home just in time to 'enjoy' a spring snow storm...the endless snow was getting ridiculous -ha ha!  I kept reminding myself it was the last winter we would be having like this...at least for awhile!

The girls were awesome and made me some fun surprises for Mothers Day!