Building New Memories

COVID19 hit right in the middle of the building of our dream home.  So I haven't written an update on our house progress in a very long time.  I have been cleaning out every square inch of our current house and have packed about 100 boxes.  By the time the movers get here, I want the movers to just load boxes and a few pieces of furniture.  I've sold a LOT of furniture and a lot of tools and so much more.  My mother keeps saying I'm not going to have anything left if I keep selling stuff but I so don't want to move a lot of stuff.  We have lived in this house 15 years and it's been a great house with so many wonderful memories.  But we are ready to move on to our next house of memories.  Our kids are almost grown.  Luke is about to graduate from college.  Sarah is about to graduate from high school.   Jonah is about to start high school.  So we are ready for a new adventure.

Rick came up with the idea to leave a treasure chest hidden in our attic.  Something for the new home owners to find and open and learn about this house's previous owners.  So we each contributed to the treasures inside.  I added some family Christmas photo cards we had made from several Christmases as well as a Santa light up & a letter to the new homeowners.  Here is a look at the letter I left for the new homeowners:

Dear New Homeowners,

Our family moved into this house 3 weeks after our youngest son, Jonah Richard, was born.  Our oldest son, Luke Thomas, was 6 years old and our daughter, Sarah Catherine, was 2 years old.   We’ve had so many adventures in this house:

• All 3 of our kids made Jesus the boss of their lives in this house and were later baptized at our church.
• Birthday, Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations with family & friends 
• Banjo, Flute, Guitar, Saxophone, and a Trombone have all been played on this house’s porches.  If we could have drug the piano onto our porch, it would have joined the nightly show.  But alas the piano was played often inside this house.
• Nightly “Buggler Idol” competitions (nicknamed by Rick) where our kids performed a song, dance or other talent.
• Monopoly games where siblings just wouldn’t admit they were broke.
• RISK Board games that lasted over several days
• Snow days where we drove our kids all over the yard in a sled pulled behind our 4 wheeler
• Snake sightings in the yard that resulted in Jonah screaming and running faster than we had ever seen him run.  In his defense, it was a rather large copper head.
• Wii tournaments, XBOX tournaments & countless number of King’s Corner card games were played.

Enjoy the Memories & Be Blessed,

Rick & Amanda Wagner

Now on to the new memories....here is the first sneak peak of our new house.  

Inside photos to come soon!