Real Estate & Easter Thoughts

We have been in Nampa for the past 4 days, and what started out as a informative trip quickly grew into Matt and I placing our first offer ever on a house. We went through a whole slew of emotions on this trip from being terrified that they would think we were two young idiots who didn't have a clue of what or how the housing process works to feeling like God placed exactly the right people in our path to work with us. We got connected with real estate agent who is a crack up most people would talk to this guy for a minute and head the other direction but we went to college with his daughter and we couldn't help but feel the whole time that he was more like a father figure just looking out for us. He knows we are just starting out and he is not going to sell us anything we shouldn't afford...I say shouldn't afford because on paper we look good. But we don't want to strap ourselves and he is on it and is not going to lead us down that road. Our agent set us up with a lender who is just as comforting. He makes us feel like we are his only clients (which may be the case in this market).

Anyway as we were in church this morning I began to think about the significance of Easter and the magical timing of us being here during Holy Week to look at houses and how the whole process took on this new meaning in the matter of a few short days. In a few short days Jesus life was changed, and I couldn't help but think about how he is so apart of this process and putting the right people in our path and the right road in front of us. Matt and I are so blessed that things are going the way that they are and we know that God is going to make a way for all of this to just work out. In the way that Christ was risen from the tomb on Sunday, it is a bit of a re-birth for Matt and I to think that we are going to be able to have a house and settle down here with our family, something we didn't think was possible in the same way no one believed that Christ would rise from the dead.

Anyway those are my deep thoughts for the day. Below is a picture of the house that we placed an offer on. Keep in mind that it is a bit of a stretch it is bank owned and we offered them a REALLY little number, hopefully in this market they take it if not we know that God will have something else in mind. If you would please just pray with us over this process and all that will have to happen and the changes that are going to come about with us. And pray over this particular house with us...just that if it is God's will that it be ours. We just want to trust him through this whole process.

Stay tuned for Easter pictures of Ty Monster...we get back tomorrow and I will be able to upload them to the computer...

Ty's first Job

Ty got up this morning with a fever so I went to work until 11:30 and Matt stayed home with him. Since he was feeling fine and driving his dad nuts Matt headed to work with Ty and I just met them at the Eastwood house to pick up Ty. When I got there Ty was driving around in the CAT with Papa.


He was having a blast, he then went inside to Help Daddy hammer some nails.

Since he did do some work, Papa paid him for all the work he had done.

He has been telling us that he wants his own Iphone, Matt told him if he wanted an Iphone he needed to get a job. So after Papa paid him he looked at Matt and said, "Now can I get an Iphone?" We just explained that he would need 499 more jobs in order to get an Iphone.

Going to the gym with the guys!

Matt has some buddies who work as teachers at City College of San Francisco, and they work out at the college a couple of times a week. They work out in the new weight room and then the go play basketball in the new gym. Well a couple of weeks ago I was sick so Matt took Ty to meet the guys at the gym. Ty thought it was the coolest thing on earth!!! He even took fruit snacks to give to all the guys. And after they played basketball they sat in a circle on the gym floor eating the fruit snacks Ty brought them. Tonight we went over to Joaquin and Aja's house to celebrate Joaquin's birthday. Some of the guys were there from the gym night and they were so nice laughing about Ty at the gym. Tonight, one of the guys, Bryan gave Ty a Golden State Warriors headband for him to wear the next time that he comes to the gym with the guys. Ty thought it was so cool he ran around with it on all night long.

The thing I think is so cool is that we are so blessed with such great friends who always include him and think about him.

Loosing Weight

So as some of you know, in a bet with my mom I am trying to lose 15lbs. I decided that I need to get the lunch lady at school in on it. The lunch lady (Miss Anne) makes brownies once a week...well since she knows I am a sucker for her brownies she often brings me 2 or 3 of them. She calls them soul food. So on Monday I told her no more soul food for me. Today when she brought the snack for the children she said she prepared a snack for me as well. It was a little bowl covered with tin foil and when I pulled back the foil there was 1 single grape inside....I guess she listened no more soul food for me :)

The City Golf Championship

Today Matt played in the San Francisco City Golf Championship. Ty and I were able to go out and watch him from the sidewalk at the legion of honor.

Since they don't allow children on the golf course Ty and I had to sit up out of the way, Ty didn't really like that, he wanted to be right there with his dad.

But when Matt got to this hole over looking the bay, we got to see him closer, since there is a road and a sidewalk right next to this hole. It made for some beautiful pictures. (That is Matt teeing off in the White Shirt)

Can you belive that this is the view from that hole!! We sure live in a beautiful place!

It was a beautiful setting to watch Matt play.

Ty loved this hole because he got to be right next to the action! He sure thinks his dad is pretty cool! (that is Matt putting in the background) He got to hold Matt's head cover to his putter while he putted this hole.

Teaching our child about Voting

So Matt and I went to our polling place tonight to vote, and we took Ty with us. When we got to the polling place, Ty said “What are we doing here?” I said “Daddy and I are voting” and Ty said “What’s that?” So in an in an attempt to explain to him what we were voting for I said “You know how Mommy and Daddy are the boss at home, well there is a big boss who is the boss of all of the United States and he is called The President. And Mommy and Daddy are voting for who they want to be the big boss.” He just said “Oh.” So we left it at that and we went into the polling place and there was of course a senior gentleman there to take our ballots (we have absentee ballots) and so we handed them to this senior citizen and then left. When we turned to leave Ty said “Was that guy the big boss?”

Needless to say after this we explained a little bit more.

Super Bowl Party Davis Style

Wanna party like a Davis...Here is what you need:

1st, you need 2, 42' plasma TV's to watch the game on:

Next you need: 39 of your closest friends

You will also need:

2 games to play in order to bet money on the game

2 buckets of KFC chicken wings

1 Crock Pot of Lil' Smokies

and LOTS and LOTS of other GOODIES' including 1 Texas Sheet Cake, Cup Cakes, and lots of chocolate chip cookies.

This all went down in our living room! Hope that you had as much fun as we did watching the big game!