Back to Omaha…

Well, after 10 short days in our beautiful new home….we drove back to Omaha. We borrowed the Play It Again Sports trailer and needed to return it and we have a Messina family reunion cruise planned out of Tampa on Saturday. So we came back to Omaha to get a few things done before we leave tomorrow again. Here are a few photos from our trip across Montana. We drove 12 hours the first day and 11 of them were in Montana. That was from the northwest corner down to the southeast corner. It’s a big state, people, but it sure is pretty.

We stopped in Deadwood, South Dakota the first night. We actually made pretty good time because we had left at 0600 that morning. After 12 hours in the truck, we wanted to walk around a bit in the gathering dusk. Here are a few photos from that. There is never a stream where my husband doesn’t attempt to try and fall in.

A couple of updates…good ones! I FINALLY got assigned to an oncologist in Kalispell and I even have an appointment. August 1st. Yay! Hurdle number one jumped over and cleared. And as of this morning, it looks like we will finally close on the house tomorrow via long distance. Also yay! Rich has worked so hard getting everything ready for this loan assumption. The company we are forced to work with has been pleasant but non-communicative and miserably slow. We were told underwriting would take 2-4 days. Four weeks later, we are finally cleared. We had to pull over on the side of the highway more than once on our way back to Omaha to submit more paperwork to these people. Arduous just doesn’t even seem to touch the tip of the iceberg on this venture. To make matters worse, they are in the eastern time zone and we were in mountain…so with a two hour time difference, we had short windows for phone tag…..and there was a lot of phone tag. So prayers lifted it all goes through tomorrow. The puzzle is starting to take shape. The only remaining missing piece is our Tim. He is currently working at Stanford University. He has been at his temp job for 18 months now. He has applied to several other jobs and one of them is in San Diego. He is a top contender for this job. I am praying multiple times a day that it comes to fruition. If any of you prayer warriors out there want to join me, I would be thankful. Hopefully he hears something in the next few days. I want him out of the living situation he is in and into something better for his mental health. What was supposed to be temporary ended up being 18 months…he deserves better than a $1000/month tiny bedroom at a boarding house where he lives with 9 other people he doesn’t know. This new job may give him the opportunity to have a better living situation….although San Diego is just as expensive as Palo Alto. It would also be a great stepping stone in his career. So please if you have a spare moment, lift this petition up for Tim. Thanks!