The Roller Coaster Ride

We have had our ups and downs and we have only been here in CA since early Monday morning. We left LATE on Sunday and tried to sleep through the flight. But both kids woke up in the middle, probably due to some WONDERFUL turbulence, which John loved as well. So John and I got very little sleep. When we got to the Oxnard Airport we found out that the lost a bag, at first we thought oh no big deal, until we realized it had all the kids extra clothes, and the bumbo, OOPS!! But we did get upgraded for FREE to some Cadillac looking thing, fits right in here. We decided to try to check into the hotel earlier and shower. Then start our day. We went and looked at about 7 houses, all which were AWFUL!! Many I wouldn't even let my worst enemy live in, not that I have many of those, but they were just ran down, cupboards falling off, and holes in walls bad. Most were alot smaller than we could even try to cram all of our stuff in. I was so discouraged. When we got home and looked at the houses that the realtor had emailed us for the next day, I was discouraged and overwhelmed even more. I didn't even know where to start, or even to look, there were 60+ houses, and many looked like they were in the same kinda shape as the ones we had looked at earlier that day. Plus on top of this, our realtor, which is filling in for our normal realtor, who had to go out of town unexpectedly, is really really busy, and only had a few hours each day to help us. Well this ended up working out for us on Tuesday (Day 2 of house hunting), we decided that we would narrow down the houses according to sq footage, knowing that our last house was 1250, and knowing that we needed more than that. So we cut those out before anything else. Then about 1pm we decided that we would drive around to all the other house on the list and cut out the ones that were in bad neighborhoods, and looked awful from the outside. This worked out great, cause the kids slept (since on Monday half the issues were kid related) and we walked around and peeked in all the windows. Then our list was narrowed down to a few with the realtor. WAY WAY easier with the kids. Also we got this got opportunity. Well it may be an opportunity. This older lady that is LDS is trying to sell her house, and it is not really even getting any offers. The house is out of our price range by $60,000. But our realtor is going to try to work some magic and see if she would let, this other LDS family that is trying to start their family have a great deal. Well its a long shot that is for sure, but we met here and she was a really nice lady, so who knows, but either way, we did see a few houses that we liked. The one that we liked the best so far, so does everyone else, it has 3 other offers, so we will see! But either way day 2 was a bit nicer and less frustrating. So we will see about day 3, today. I will keep you posted and I will one day post pictures of the houses we like.