I'm bored at work today; so what do I do?

I just thought I should write a post about my life in general. With hearing a lot of conference over the weekend and watching a few movies last night by myself...I thought about a lot of different things. First off:
I am extremely blessed to have a wife that is smart, funny, beautiful, diligent, patient and a hard worker. I can't imagine choosing a better lifemate. I'm still working each day so that she'll say the same thing another 10-20 years from now.
Second: The Lord has blessed us more than we deserve...I don't know why, I don't know how, but we feel very blessed and grateful for what we have been given.
Third: Although I may complain and whine at times, I love the kids with us. They each have their unique challenges and quirks, but they are our kids and we feel blessed to have them in our home. Some praise us for what we do, but that makes us more uncomfortable and completely wrong...we are doing what we can to help kids that might otherwise not have a normal home to live in. I can't imagine them not in our life. They have a piece of my heart.
Fourth: I'm grateful for our rational and sometimes boring thinking. We make some mistakes, but we haven't had too many that are hurting are family for a long time. It has been hard to know the Lord's will in some of our decisions..but we think things out and do what we feel best. Overall things have turned out very well. Hopefully our home being built continues to follow this pattern.
Fifth: I miss my father-in-law. Jim was very loving and kind to me and a big support. I wish the kids would have his kindness and love in their lives right now. It still hurts me to think about this. Not that my parents don't love us and accept us, but something seems to be missing at times. Maybe Marie will help fill that void if she comes and lives with us for a bit when she retires...

Sixth: I don't like small houses. No offense to those who have them. Call me a snob or schmuck, but whatever. There isn't enough room for us in this small house!!!

Seventh: Weird that my sister is pregnant and having a baby in the fall. I wish I could be there to see it..I'm not sure how often I'll see her. I wish we could all live closer. I think our Fechter family got a little spoiled by having almost all family in Sacramento growing up.

Eighth: I need to do and be better.

That's all.

And the sale went through-

We feel so blessed that our home was purchased and for a reasonable amount. I don't know why we have been so blessed by The Lord, but we are grateful. We have to have everything done by tonight and then we leave our keys. Sad to see our first home go, but it is so exciting that things are working out so well. With people having such difficult times, it's hard to be too happy, but we humbly accept any blessings we can receive.

Hedo is one smart dog...

So the wind blew open our not so closed gate yesterday. I freaked out when I got home and started my search for the two labs. I checked up the hill where we take them to be able to take them off our leashes...no. Looked up and down the straights around our rental...no. Looked around the main road...no. Prayed. Then thought to go check our old house. It's about 3/4 mile away. Then I get a call from my friend Glen asking if I was missing something. I told him yes..the dogs had found their way all the way back to our old house and were in his garage!!! I'm sure Belle just kind of followed Hedo's nose all the way back. I was for sure impressed. So Glen had put the dogs in our old backyard as we are still waiting on the funding and then signatures tomorrow to go through.

About this rental...we are simply biding the time until we get out of hear. It really doesn't fit us too well. Oh well, it was hard to find four bedroom homes. The builder just put in our foundation. So maybe about 9 weeks now.

So, I've never had good blog titles to attract

more people to my blog. Oh well. I guess I can't be perfect at everything.

So everything is going smooth on selling our house!!!

It looks like this will go through. We are kind of anxious of having to be out in two weeks, but we'll get it done someway and somehow. We will probably go get a storage unit tomorrow and will start taking things over. The rental unit won't be ready until the 22nd...so we have a short time frame to get things completely moved. It will be crazy, but so worth it in the end.

Quick update on life-

Funeral went well out in Sacramento. It was good to see some family I have not seen in forever. I honestly did not cry as much as at Anna's dad's funeral. It just doesn't make me that sad when he had a good 80 years to live. He was a good man at heart.

Court to set adoption date is next week...we are very excited. The girls are sweethearts and I think G wants to as well. It is very saddening but exciting at the same time. It really rips our hearts in two directions. It's been crazy to have five kids, but we've managed with God's help.

We may be leaving the house in a few weeks if the current offer on the house goes through. We just had the inspection today with the appraisal coming up. We will be renting until our house is built in the end of May or beginning of June. We'll be posting pictures for sure as we will watch every step of the way. It will give us tons of room for the kids, future kids, grandparents..., and other guests. It is very exciting. We have been so blessed. Both of our jobs are great.

Exercised four times already this week while burning over 1000 calories each day. Hopefully that can get me going in the right direction. I've been eating breakfast more as well.

Moving sucks. It's very nerve wracking and crazy. Due to not doing much for the past week, we are going to have a heck of a time the last two weeks before we have to move out.

I love you grandpa. We'll see you soon.