Russell Family: May 2011

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

St. David Move

I know it has been over a year since I have blogged and A LOT has happened so I will try to catch up a little here and there. Back in Feb we bought our first house in St. David AZ. We moved in Feb 7, 2011 and have loved every minute since we have been here. we have been so welcomed into our ward. We know this is were we are suppose to be. we tried to buy a house over a year ago in Sahuarita and nothing worked out we were always a day late and a dollar short. I wanted to get back to a small town and so we started to look in St. David, we looked at around 4 houses and were still a day late and a dollar short. so about 6 or 7 months later we found this one that I really liked it was in the middle of town with 1.25 acres and then this other house came on the market and Chauncy went and looked at it and he liked it right away but told me I would like the other house better because it was in the middle of town (thats what I wanted) so we decided we weren't even going to look at it. well as we were driving to look at the house in the middle of town I told Chauncy lets go look at the other house, so we did. I'm so glad we did because our loan wouldn't work with the house in the middle of town and so thought long and hard with a lot of Prayer we decided to put in an offer on this house we offered them $30,000 lower then the asking price well we ended up getting it for $16,000 less then asking price and that got us new carpet which was a necessity.

We know we were suppose to be in this ward because no other house would work out for us and this one came on the market at the right time and after a lot of hard work with our loan and lots and lots of prayers our loan went through and we have been so HAPPY here. Our ward has reached out to us in so many ways starting with about 10-15 people helping us move in.

Thanks for my moms help we got it painted before we moved in. I really appreciate Elizabeth Dickey for her help packing and My mom, dad, Steven and Adam for helping us pack up from Sahuarita and all of them plus JJ and Marlo and our ward for unpacking in St. David. Steven and JJ really helped us by putting Ceiling fans with lights in every room because there was no lights. It was a LOT of work. they did that so Chauncy could fix broken pipes (St. David had the hardest freeze in 100 years) so Chauncy got to play plumber all weekend.
I'm still not completely settled but that will come. we have planted 7 fruit trees, a garden, cleaned up a lot of the mesquite trees and built corrals. have I said it yet I LOVE IT HERE !!!!