Our Story Part 5 (Idaho City)

School would be starting soon, and we have to make a decision quickly.  Do we follow our gut instinct, what our heart is telling us, and what God is telling us or do we stay in the beautiful blue state of Oregon?  After visiting the town of Idaho City, Idaho, and looking at the cabin for rent, we knew exactly what we wanted to do.  

After securing the cabin rental, we gave notice to our current landlord and started packing. School was starting and we only had a short time to get moved and get the kids started in their new school.  Three 12 hour trips from Oakridge to Idaho City and just like that we moved into that little cabin in the Mountains just outside of town.

Idaho City is a neat little western town and a gateway to the Sawtooth Mountains, a hidden gem. Once the largest city in the Pacific Northwest during the gold rush, there now remains a rugged western town steeped in mining and logging history. We began looking for land around the town we fell in love with,  soon after we moved in. Finding the right piece of land in a place we wanted to raise a family is hard and once again, we didn’t find what we are looking for, in the price range we could afford here.

We soon started looking at other areas for land.  Northern Idaho has always been a place we were interested in, so we started to look at land there.  We made several trips to several different towns while waiting for the girls to finish the school year out.  During that time, my husband went through several major surgeries and spent 28 days in the hospital and 6 weeks of home health care. Luckily, we had made an offer on some land not far from the Canadian border.  While my husband was in the hospital, we closed the deal on the land. By the time my husband was released from the doctor, the twins were getting out of school for summer break and we were ready to move.  

With the influx of folks moving north, rentals were few and far between. We couldn’t even find an affordable place to live in our camper anywhere in the area. The land we purchased was full of trees and we couldn’t even get our camper on the property without cutting down trees and putting a road in.  With Billy just having major surgery, there was no way he was able to do all that work.  After Billy healed from his surgeries, he would require another surgery.  Knowing this, we new that we were going to have to find a home to rent and building our dream cabin in the backwoods of northern Idaho would have to wait. Searching for a home to rent was difficult to say the least. Luckily, after looking on fb and craigslist several times a day, we found an ad for a new home to rent in town, 6 miles from our land. Finally we found a place to rent.  Soon after Billy was released from the doctor and the kids got out of school, we started moving north.  

Our summer was spent on Billy healing and slowly working on our property. We managed to get our driveway cleared, and a barn started before winter hit and Billy had to go in for two more surgeries.

Campaign 12, better than bare!

Avon Campaign 12 2017 

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Better than bare!

New Ideal Nude Makeup

One item I would like to highlight in this campaign is the bubble bath on page 38-39. ANY 2 FOR $12.  My kids and I love bubble baths and love the scents Avon has to offer. 

You can find a copy of the brochures here on my website.

Did you know 26 Avon Catalogs are published every year? Every two weeks a new Avon Campaign starts with new products, different sales, and great bargains in makeup, skincare, fragrance, bath & body, jewelry, and more. You can also shop Avon sales online, so whether you like to look at the hard copy of the Avon Brochure or you’re fine with browsing the Avon Catalog Online…you can get the same deals you would from me coming to your door. Our representative websites switch over to a new Avon Campaign every 2 weeks! You don’t have to request an Avon catalog in the mail, once you place an Avon order on my website, I will mail the next available Avon Catalogs to your home.

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Avon's Semi-Annual Sale, Campaign 6

Avon Campaign 6 2017 

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SEMI-ANNUAL SALE

Shop from over 200 items in our semi-annual sale. 

Did someone say sale? Yes! it's time for our semi-annual clearance sale. Tons of amazing deals on fashion, jewelry, beauty and more! Get these hot bargains before they're gone. 

One item I would like to highlight in this campaign is the, All New flirty ruffle blouse with the lattice-back ruffle top, that comes in sizes small - 3W, found on page 119 of C6 

 I also love the new lovely lace printed shift dress that comes in sizes Small-3W on page 122 of C6

 

Campaign 6

MeetMark 6 & 7

Outlet Campaign 6

Anew Spring Care

Back Order from 2 Previous Avon Campaigns

Back Order from Previous Avon Campaigns – Avon Campaign 6 2017 – Did you know you can back order from the previous 2 Avon campaigns? Browse the online Avon catalogs, find the product numbers of the items you’d like to order, and write down which campaign you found the items in. Once you are ready to place your Avon order, click shop now on my website. In the upper right hand corner, click shop by product #. You can then input your product numbers and use the drop down menus to select the correct campaign.

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Avon True Color Pro+Nail Enamel On Sale

Avon True Color Pro+ Nail Enamel

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How we arrived in The Great Northwest Part 1

In 2012, my husband and I decided to take action on our dreams to move to the great Northwest and live a more sustainable life. The idea of living like my Great Grandmother, Mama, fascinated me.

My Great Grandparents

I longed to be a "Pioneer Woman," but not in the heat of Oklahoma.  Where would we live, if not our native state? We watched all those Alaska shows on TV and couldn’t get enough of them. We fell in love with the idea of living in Alaska. Who wouldn’t after months of watching every Alaska show we could find? That was enough for us to plan a trip to Alaska.

Homer,  Alaska

I’m not going to get into too much detail about our trip on this post. However, I will say that Alaska is beautiful and we met an amazing realtor and her husband from Texas. After days of looking for affordable properties, we did find land by a Russian community with a good view and a creek below. We liked it so much we decided to make an offer. First we needed to research the cost of utilities, so our first call ended up being our last. The cost of running electricity (before I was convinced to live off grid) was going to cost $30k (over our budget) to run it a short distance to our property. The creek below was also on a reservation and we couldn’t use it. That was enough for us to start thinking about another location in the lower 48…

The Spit @ Homer,  Alaska

Halibut Fishing

Salmon Fishing

Property we looked into buying

 

The road in front of the property

A friend of my husband’s invited us to his home for a visit in Medford, Oregon.  That is when we started researching that area and decided to go on a two week road trip with the family. We fell in love with Oregon. We had a great trip and couldn’t wait to get back to this area. Finally, we found an area we thought we wanted to spend the rest of our life. Oh how beautiful this country is, but sometimes beauty can fool ya.

Now to get busy preparing for the move….   

The first thing we did when we decided to move, because we knew it could take years to accomplish, was put our homes and land up for sale. Then the fun part began, downsizing and getting rid of all the junk we had been collecting for years; cleaning and preparing our homes for the real estate market. One of the hardest part for me was showing the house we lived in.  Getting the entire house all clean at the same time with twins and a teenager running around and working ten hours a day, what a joke? :) So when you go look at a home for sale, remember how much work goes into getting it ready. I could have choked several folks for not showing up when they said they would. It's hard work y'all.

 

First, the land sold in about a month. Another year and a half passed by before the home we lived in sold. Next, we moved into our other little home in town until it sold. It took us two years from the time we made up our minds to move until the day we actually moved. That puts us in June of 2014. It seemed like time stood still and we were in slow motion waiting for our big day to finally move. We waited until the kids were out of school. We didn’t want to move them in the middle of a school year and it actually worked better for us.

Where are we moving to?  We don’t have land bought or a place rented.  We had searched online as much as we possibly could for the place of our dreams, but it’s hard when you aren’t physically in the area.  When you want your dreams to come true bad enough, you will not let anything get in your way and we were determined.  After our homes sold, we sold, gave away, and tossed everything we would possibly not need.  Two trailers packed to the rim of our belongings and two 4x4 vehicles packed and ready to go. Go where though? Where are we going and how are we going to get there?

To read the next part, click on the links below.

 Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

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