Howder Update

Well I missed a week updating but all is well here in North Carolina. We hope on this Friday our house sells in California a HUGE THANK YOU to George and Jason for helping us out on the pest report and home inspection, we love you guys. Actually we already released the home to the relocation company to sell to the buyers so I guess that is a done deal but I'll believe it when it is final and hope the couple purchasing has as many great memories in the house and neighborhood that we did. If anything they won't have much to fix after the two years we've been fixing everything. Then on Halloween we should beable to close on the home we found here in Huntersville. Let's hope it's a TREAT not a TRICK. It will be nice to quit looking at homes to purchase and just get on with life here with all our belongings the moving truck is planned for arrival on November 1st. Bradley is awaiting all his toys and bike to ride. I am a coach for Morgan's volleyball team with a couple other dads on the team. It's been fun getting to know the girls and they are doing really well 4/1. Same thing here as usual with children, schooling, sports, church, work and some play. We did manage to go out to the Blue Ridge Apple Farms and pick pumpkins and get Apples it was the closest we could get to Apple Hill (missed seeing Grandma Linda, Sonja, John and the most talented face painter around). It was so beautiful and fun to just get away for a day. The leaves are changing at least the ones that aren't dry from the drought here. Lakes and rivers are low but today the rain is coming in for the next few days. Our apartment we've been living in had a get together this past weekend and we enjoyed a great band and some great food hanging out with the kids friends they have made here in the apartments. Morgan has started babysitting two adorable little boys and loves it and them. It reminds me of when I started babysitting. Bradley went to a birthday party for a friend "Ethan" here and had a great time with his friends at Chucky Cheese. I am making his Halloween costume he is so excited! Keep looking at the blog for that surprise! This last weekend we also had some not so good news about my cousin Edward that is 13 in Salt Lake. He has been dealing with his cancer and so we are all praying harder for him this week as he gets ready for another surgery to remove another brain tumor they found in his most recent MRI this Wednesday at the Primay Children's Hospital. He has a lot of family and friends praying. It's a hard road they have been riding on the last year with his kind of cancer. Please add him to you your prayers he is such a trooper. Hang in there Edward and Family. Enjoy the photos I posted today.