Jones Family Pictures - February 2008
Our Family
The Entire Jones FamilySomeone got to the house we wanted first. What a disappointment! I GIVE UP! I not getting excited about anything until it is done! Really it's my fault. I get all excited about something too soon and it leads to disappointment. We know the Lord has a plan for us. I need to learn to not rush it. It will all happen in his time. Things keep changing and that is driving me nuts! I know it will all work out in time and be for the best, but I hate the un-known. I want to be able to plan what is happening next week or next month. But we are living week by week not knowing what to plan because things keep changing. Oh well. That is the way life is going to be right now. Our hold up right now is our house in QC. Our hands are tied until we get rid of that house. As soon as it is out of our hands we can move to Georgia and buy a house and get on with life. So that is our hold up right now. It's not that I am so excited to leave AZ, it is that I just want to get on with life. Im really going to miss AZ. I am very greatful that we are going to be here for Easter! There has been some good to the delays in moving. Im not trying to complain....just venting. Thanks for listening....until next time.
House prices are dropping in Georgia like they are dropping in AZ. By $30,000 to $40,000. We asked our current builder if they could do anything to match the other builders and they said no. They wouldn't bring their price down at all. Not even half way to $20,000. So we are back on the hunt for a new home. I have mixed feelings about it. But anyway. This is the home we are looking at getting now. It is a Pulte Home. It is beautiful inside! We looked at them last time but they were too expensive. Now they are cheaper than our house we got. So I am flying out Sunday for a week to look at homes again. But this is the one that I am really leaning twoards. It is 600 sq ft. bigger. It is really nice. The thing I am really going to miss about the other house is the AWESOME back yard and how close it is to the school. And the fact that we could move in, in 30 days. Where if we go somewhere else we will have to wait 4 to 6 months for it to be built unless we get a re-sale home. Which is also what we are going to be looking at. Wish us luck!
We we got all moved out and now are living with my parents in Mesa while in transition. Tim is back to traveling for the next 6 weeks. Moving was a bear!!! It's been a week and I still have a hedache from it. We wanted to get out of our house right away to get it ready to rent, so we had to put our stuff into storage. Tim's moving company will come to the storage unit and pack it all up in the truck when we are ready for them to bring it to Georgia. Otherwise it would have cost us 5,000 a month to store it with Tim's moving company. Tim's awesome friends Tim Jackson and Tony Peterson came to help. What life savers!!! It took us 12 hours to move out all of our stuff. (How did we aquire so much crap?!?!) Which left no time for Tim and I to do the things we needed to do on the house. So it is all up to me. Monday, I painted all day while my WONDERFUL Visiting Teachers and Jen and Kirsty came to help clean. On Tuesday, I painted again all day! While my VT, Katrina Wood cleaned ALL DAY!!! What an incredible person! I can't beleive she stayed all day on Monday to help And then she came back on Tuesday to help more. WOW! Wednesday, I finished up the painting and did some more cleaning. BLAH! I hate cleaning. Espically when I know Im not going to be able to enjoy the clean house. Oh well. I still have so much to do. All of our stuff is in storage right now until we are ready to move to GA. We are also selling all of our Stainless Steel appliances and Washer and Dryer if anyone is intrested. I REALLY wanted to take them with us because they are in great condtion and not very old but we have exceeded our limit on the moving truck so we have to leave them here. Anyway, that is all for now.
We have had many ask when we are moving. Well.... this week. They are packing up our house on Wednesday and Tursday, January 16th and 17th. Our stuff will stay in sotrage until we actually move to Georgia at the End of February. I am totally not ready! If you have anyting that belongs to me that you have borrowed....would you please bring it by my house this week? I'm totally going to forget and not going to have time to come get it from you. :o) Thank You! We will miss you all!
Well, I cant beleive this is all happening so fast! We talked to Tim's Relocation Company and the Movers. We are packing up in two weeks. HOLY COW! Way too fast! We are still going to live here in AZ until my sister comes to visit in February. At the end of February we are off to Georgia. We will be living out of a suit case for the next two or three months. Tyler will go to school wherever is closest to where we are staying. We might live with my parents in Mesa for the two months. They have an empty basement with 3 bedrooms that we could use. We will see. We are hoping that our house will sell faster or rent faster with it being empty. Tim is home until Jan 1st and so we are doing alot of sorting and getting rid of stuff we dont want the movers to pack. I need to get back to that. Just wanted to up-date.
Our house is 70% complete so it isn't all pretty yet. It still needs the floors and appliances, and the stair railing isnt stained yet, the paint needs to be touched up, landscaping, ect... We close on our house February 28th, 2008!
Our House on a hill! In Sugar Hill, Georgia.
The back yard view from our master bedroom window. We have a 1/4 acre. The back yard goes all the way to the way back to the creek. We will own part of the creek!!! :o) Soo Cool!
The other half of our back yard. Tyler will love climbing this rock wall! Our wall goes from the color change behind Tim (the highest point of the wall) to a little behind where I am standing. 
Formal dining room. The floors are not in yet. We are getting hard wood floors through out the entire main floor.
Across from the dining room is this room. The living room.
The kitchen. It has a HUGE walk in pantry in the hallway behind the kitchen. Im so glad Im not loosing my big pantry. :o) Granite Counter tops. Not my choice of color for the counter tops but they are allready installed so I cant change them. :o( They are ok. They look better when they are not so dusty. They arent granite either they are silo or shilo or something like that. It is supposed to be better than granite because you dont have to treat them.
the wall between the kitchen and the family room.
The fire place and stairs going up. The stairs to the basement are under the stairs going up, behind that wall.
Master bath. Tub and Shower.
Master Bath. Sinks. Toilet room door on right middle door is a small linen closet and the master closet is the door on the far left next to the mirrior.
Our Master bedroom. Doubble doors going into the bathroom. So cute!
Stairs going up. I love that they break and turn. And I love the BIG window. The railing still needs to be stained. It will be a cherry finish to match our kitchen cabinets. There are 4 bedrooms up stairs.
The main big room in the basement. The door to the back yard is in the far back corner on the right. It is a VERY long room. Perfect for MOIVIES!!! I guess in georgia, if you dont have Termites you will soon have them so the green on the bottom half of the walls is the termite treatment.
One of the 3 framed in rooms in the basement. This is one.
WOW!!! I really can't beleive this is happening. Im so excited!!! NO DOUBT ABOUT IT! WE ARE GOING! I wish I could give detail but due to the nature of this offer affecting other people I really can't say much right now. It could put Tim's job on the line. Scary! But we are going. I can tell you that Tim did get a promotion and we are happy with the pay raise he is receiving. So now I know, when I go to Georgia on Friday, I am HOUSE HUNTING!!!!
We don't know when the move is going to happen. I want to wait until after my neices wedding in January and after my sister comes to visit from Holland in February. Hopefully that is how things will work out. I am kind of hoping we can wait until school is out but who knows if that will work out. We are putting our house up for sale right away so if you know anybody intrested in moving into this WONDERFUL ward and neighborhood, pass the word along.
Im begging all of you to PLEASE keep in touch. You have all made such a huge impact on me and I feel like I am losing a big part of my life. I hope I can find as wonderful of friends and neighbors there as we have been blessed with here. I really hope our Ward is a wonderful there as it is here. I don't know if that is possible. You have made my life better in so many ways. You have helped me grow in a way that I can not explain. You have made me stronger spiritually. I truly love you all. Yes, I am talking to you!
Tim has an offer meeting tomorrow morning, 8:30am!!! (11-28-07) Im so EXCITED! Tony Peterson got his offer today. I guess they were told that Monika and I are NOT allowed to discuss their offers with eachother. WHAT!?!?!? I totally don't get that! BLAH! Whatever! They probably don't want us comparing. Here are some pics Tim has sent from Georgia.
Tim felt so Important when he walked in to the regus training office and saw this sign.
Tim went and had some fun. The Suns were in Atlanta playing the Hawks. He went to the Suns vs. Hawks basketball game.
On the Marta (train) riding into Atlanta to the Basketball game. It's like the light rail we will have here in phoenix.
Tim's office this week in Georgia. 11-26-07. Big enough? (This is in the training building not the McKesson building.)
View from Tims office in Georgia. (the training office not the McKesson office)
Behind Tim's office. (the training office) I love all the trees.
View from his bosses office in Georgia. That would be nice. He says it is better in person.
1/3 of the Gym in their McKesson office. I guess it wraps around to the left and has a bunch of equipment. The locker room and showers are in the center.
Okay, so I got tagged by Cresta. I know, I need to update my blog. I know it has been a while. I have been waiting until Thanksgiving to update, we were supposed to have news on Tim's job by Thanksgiving. But they had some last minuet changes come up. So we don't have any news yet. We are hoping this week.
Tim was home the whole week of Thanksgiving. It was SO great to have him home for the whole week. We got some MAJOR decluttering done! Im so excited! He is so WONDERFUL!!!
He left this morning (Sunday) back to Georgia. I think this week will go by really fast because I am going to go Georgia Friday morning. I will be busy all week getting ready to go. Im excited!
Well that is all I have for now. Below are some Thanksgiving photos. And we had Treasure Goates take some family pictures for us. She is so GREAT!!! Enjoy!
Yes, Mommy and Katrina were on the hayride too.
A fun Idea for a picture. It turned out cute.
I stole this Idea from Heather Darger. Her's turned out cuter but hey! This pic. was actually by accident. I was trying to get some cute ones of him smileing and then he looked over at something Katrina was doing and I took it.
Im so impressed! Can you beleive we allready have our christmas decorations up? Usually the lights don't happen at all. But this year they did. I think its because Tim knew he isn't going to be around during the week so he had to get it done when he was here. And he is acutally going to be gone the next two weeks. And wont be home this weekend because Im going there. So, he really had to get it done. YAY!!!
I'm sorry I havent updated in a while. We are all still doing good. No new news on tims work. We still dont know if we are staying or going to Georgia. We are told we should know something by Thanksgiving. If not sooner. Tim is traveling now. He is gone 5 days a week to Georgia and he comes home Friday night and leaves again on Sunday night, every week. He basiclly lives in Georgia and comes to visit us on the weekend. The Petersons and I are flying out to Georgia on the 29th to see Tim and to do some looking. As soon as we know something, we will post it. Below are some Halloween Pictures. Enjoy!
Our Family at The Palmer Family Party. October 29th 2007
Cousins - Chloe Cardwell, Kenna, Tyler and KaylieRae Cardwell 3 mermaids, 1 spiderman.
Katrina (an adorible witch), Kenna (a mermaid) and Chloe (a mermaid)
Tim being cute as usual. I was tired of wearing my hat so I gave it to Tim.
Before Trick or Treating - Halloween Night 
Sumo Tim, kicking back... Is he taking a NAP?????
Sumo Tim, hard at work...with his superman cape on. :oDLast weeks miscarriage was difficult but we are fine. I have had geat comfort through everything. I know there is a reason that it happened. I know that our Father in Heaven has a plan for us and he is looking out for us. I am allready starting to see the peices of the "big picture". Tim came home from work on Friday and told me that his company is moving to Georgia no later than July 1st. I thought "Oh great, he needs to start job hunting" Which would be so sad because he LOVES his job. (He is the Manager of the Training and Certification department. He trains Doctors and re-sellers on how to use their medical billing software. And he gets them certified. He LOVES teaching them and he loves signing those certificates. He even has a special pen for it. :o) He is cute) Then he told me 11 people out of his company were asked to go along, and Tim is one of them. We havent decided to go yet. Tim had a bunch of questions for them before we decide either way. Like job position and compensation. If it is a good enuf offer, we will go. They have allready given us some great benifits. Tim will get a great bonus just for staying with the company until May 1st. Weather we stay or go to Georgia, he gets that money for staying with the company until May. They will also give him an allowance if we decide to move. They will pay for us to take two "Home buying" trips. They will pay for someone to come in and completely pack up our house and move it along with our cars so we don't have to drive to Georgia. Yay! I don't like to travel for more than 8 hours. We have been fasting and praying about it and we feel like no matter what happens that everything will work out fine. We have felt great comfort about whatever happens. My mom really doesn't want us to go. My sister Shawntel, moved to Holland in June and my mom is still having a hard time with them being away. She is afraid of what our kids will learn over there. We have a cousin in Arkansas that we saw this summer and they were laughing about how screwed up their school system is there. Some of their spelling words are like, you-ins and we-ins. (I don't know how to spell it cuz they arent even words :o) But anyway, it is funny. Hopefully Georgia's schools are better. But who knows, it is the South and East. Tim's company is moving to a town called Alpharetta. It is about 27 miles North of Atlanta. It is soo beautiful! We would be living in a near by town since we would not be able to afford a house in Alpharetta. We are looking in Sugar Hill (Forsyth County) and Cumming. Another really cool thing is that two of our friends that live out here, work with Tim and they were also asked to move. Tony and Monika Peterson and Tim and Beth Jackson. They are really cool. The guys have so much fun together. We really hope that if we go, that they will go too. I think it would be fun if we all moved together. I would miss all my great friends here but thank goodness for e-mail right???? :o)
Well...I miscarried today. But I am doing ok. I called the Dr., they said when I go in tomorrow for the blood test, they will schedule a D & C if needed. Oh what fun! :o( I think the hardest part was telling the kids. They have been so excited about this baby. Kenna stared to cry a little, she had little tears. It was so sad. She gave me a geat big hug. She said "so, we are not going to have a baby boy anymore?" I told her we would try again in a few months and probably be able to get pregnant again and have a healthy baby boy. That made her feel a little better. Tyler was sad too. He is such a sweet boy. He asked if I was going to be ok. I told him I would because I have them.
Well....I had my long awaited ultrasound today. I should be almost 11 weeks. It measured me at 5 1/2 weeks. She couldn't even hardly see the baby or babies. She couldn't see if there was twins. She could see the sack and that is it. No heart beat. I had my blood drawn today and I have to go back in on Wednesday to get it drawn again. If my Hormone level is higher on Wednesday than it was today then I am still pregnant but if it drops on Wednesday from today then I am Miscarrying. She said my uterus was not measuring large anymore. So..... I don't know. I am trying to think positive but it is really hard when this has happened before. And I know I should be farther along than 5 weeks. I took my pregnancy test 4 weeks ago. So, all signs are pointing twoards a miscarriage. :o( If I find out everything is ok on Wednesday then I will let you know. I acutally wont know until Thursday because it takes a day to get the results back from the lab they said. Im a little bummed out, but I am trying to not think about it too much. I don't want to go into tears and then find out Thursday that everything is fine. So for now, I am trying to stay positive. I will let you know Thursday.
Well, here we go again! I went to the Dr. She said there is a possibility that it is twins! I have an "oversized uterus" I have 4 choices. 1.) A Molar Pregnancy, it is a fake pregnancy. Your body thinks you are pregnant but it is just a rapidly growing growth and makes your uterus larger. I doubt it is that because I feel pregnant for real. 2.) Another kind of growth along with the baby, like a syst or fibroids. That can make it larger. 3.) Extra Amniotic fluid. I could just have more fluid than normal. This is typically not a bad thing. OR 4.) TWINS! Call me crazy, but I am rooting for twins. I have an Ultrasound Scheduled for Monday the 24th. We will find out then, what is going on.
That is why we had our family pics done in a similar spot...
