House update

Charlie and Bro. Seaver (he's the contractor from our ward that we are paying to do the siding and some other work) started work on the house today. They are finishinig up the instillation of the front door right now. They already installed the back door. They look FABULOUS!!! And that even is an understatment. Tomorrow they will put insillation around the frame and put the trim back up then they will look even better. Tomorrow they plan on beginning the siding on the house too. Once that is complete it will be a whole new house. I can't wait to see what it will look like.

There is a sister in our ward who wants to buy the house. She is applying for a grant through the City of Flint to help her buy a house. The city is pushing home ownership and is giving grants of up $40K to help those who qualify. She is suppose to find out by July 14th is she is approved for the grant and then she says she wants to use that money to buy this house. We don't know what we'll do is the house is bought and Charlie doesn't have a job yet. But really, that won't be a huge problem to solve, as long as we have this house sold (which is the really hard part).

Charlie had a job interview in Hemlock, Mi last week and they turned him down for a more qualified candidate. We were pretty bummed about it because we drove around the area together after his interview and looked at some houses that were for sale. It was a nice area and we could picture ourselves there, but it wasn't meant to be. On Monday he had an interview at a Catholic school in St. Joseph. It's by Benton Harbor. He feels like it went well but we haven't heard from them yet. We aren't sure if we could live on what they pay though. They didn't have exact numbers but said they paid about 70% of what public schools pay which is about $25K a year and they only pay for Charlie's benefits. We'd have to pay for the rest of the family to have insurance. That just might be too much for us to afford on our own. Charlie would have a chance to teach Calculus though and that is very inticing to him. Tomorrow he has an interview in Pinckney. It's for a math position. We would love for him to be hired there because he could still commute from here if we needed him to for a little bit. It's a good area and good school too. So keep you fingers crossed and say bunches of prayers that he'll get the job (of course if it's the Lord's will).

The kids are enjoying their break. Alexis is showing a goat for 4-H this year at the Fowlerville Fair. She just spent a week at Charlie's parents' house learning how to work with the goat. She is going to enter in a couple of other categories such as photography and drawing and see if she can win a ribbon. She's really excited and Merrit is really jealous. He's not old enough to do it yet. You have to be 9 by Jan. 01 of the year you intend to show in. Merrit won't be able to do it for 2 more years. Hopefully Charlie's parents still have goats by then so he can have a chance.

Well sorry this is so long. Hope you haven't fallen asleep yet. See those of you here in Michigan at Kurt and Heather's house on Sunday!