Our house

Well, here is how the Thomson Family starts out a year to be "less eventful": We MOVE!

Yes, our house is on the market again! We had put it up later last year, and got no bites. We were trying to find houses in this area with land, but couldn't find anything within our price range that was not 25+ minutes away. We took our house off. Lately, we started thinking about how we would like to have some land, to have animals and four-wheelers and all that jazz. We have actually found several houses that we like within our price range in the area! One in particular that we are working for! We live in Allen, and are looking in Lucas, within the Lovejoy School District.

Our house has had quite a few showings! We put our sign up on Thursday, and the house went up on the internet late that night. We had 3 showings Friday, 7 Saturday, 5 yesterday, and have one scheduled so far today. That reaches a grand total of…16 SHOWINGS! We have received 2 offers (one was a contingent, so we couldn't take it), and 1 should be coming in today.

WOW! Is this a sign or what? J Just kidding. But if you compare this to when we put our house up last year, it is pretty amazing! We are going to miss our friends here close, since we will be switching wards to the Second Ward (we're in the 4^th). But we lived in the second ward for about 4 years before the wards spit and we got put in 4^th again. So at least we know everyone-ok, practically everyone-there.

Funny: we asked Collin what he was looking forward to the most about moving. He said, in a high pitched voice, "CHICKENS!" And he will now walk around singing "Chick-chick-CHICKENS!" Yesterday during one of our showings we just drove around and looked at houses in the area that we were interested in. Collin kept saying how excited he was that we might be able to have chickens. I finally asked him WHY he was so excited about having chickens. He told me "because they will have little chicks that can peck your eyes out!" Ummm, ok? Thanks, Collin! I'm still not sure whether he was saying the general form of 'your' or if he was talking about ME specifically! Collin, Collin. First grenades on the valentines, now carnivorous chicks? J