Welcome (to your new) Home, DeBelling Family!

Suz was busy yesterday afternoon, carefully lettering and painting a 3-foot tall banner (20 feet long?) with a welcome message.  She also had carefully painted each of the family's first names on a Mylar helium balloon.

"It's a big deal," Suzie explained to me when I commented on her thoughtfulness last night, "They are making a huge change in their lives."

She is of course talking about her half-brother Mark and his wonderful family, moving here from the Salt Lake City area.  They are due to be here sometime midday today, and we're looking forward to their arrival.

Their family is going to be joining our neighborhood here.  When all is said and done, we will have 4 (technically 5) houses on this street inhabited by family members.

Let's start with Denny, Heather, and Hunter.  They all live in a house they've owned for a couple of years.

Directly across the street from them, a house went up for auction a couple of months ago and was purchased (we don't know the owner).  It is currently one structure joined by a covered breezeway, but the owner is separating them into two units.  When the deal was made, Denny talked to the guy right away and told him that he could fill it with two rent families immediately if he was going that direction.  Turns out he was and he went for it.  He hired Kevin to do the maintenance to bring them back up to the stage of being inhabitable again.  Now Kevin and his family are living in the left half (the smaller of the two units) of the place.  The right half is where Mark and his family are going to be living when they arrive.  It's going to be close as far as being finished (it's 95%), and I hope it's got the electricity turned on and everything by then.  They've never seen the place and I hope they like their new home.  It's got plenty of space for their family.  If nothing else, it's an awful nice thing to have a place to go to right away when you make a multi-state move!

Back to the neighborhood.

Rachyl and Tony are currently living at Denny & Heather's house, but will be moving 3 doors down towards us at the end of this month when their house deal finally closes.  That will put them 2 houses down from us on the other side of the street.

We're taking over the neighborhood!