The Fullmer Family: Payson

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Our Big announcement!

And no we are NOT having a baby! Many of you know last February we were selected by Habitat for Humanity of Utah County to build our first home! Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization that provides safe and affordable housing for low income families. We were chosen because we have never owned a home. The home we currently live in has a cracked foundation, leaky windows, water damage, termites, and the spit entry doesn't meet with Lukie's medical needs and mobility of his IV pole. It will also be nice to not have wasps sting the kids when they are sleeping (wasps live in Jayden's wall), or pay for $200 spider bites. We found out we were selected via newsletter early February. It is kind of funny, we were told we would receive a phone call if we were selected, if not we would receive a letter in the mail. Well an envelope came and I was a little disappointed, but relieved to find out it was a newsletter and not a "rejection letter". I didn't have time to look at the newsletter, put it on the couch, and went grocery shopping. When I came home Kaleb had read the newsletter and read that we were selected to build our first home! Mike and I jumped up and down with joy!

As part of being a Habitat family we commit to 500 sweat equity hours. We have been busy all year fulfilling our agreement. With the help of family and friends we have completed our 500 required hours, and we are looking forward to see how many more hours we can fulfill:) We could not have done it with GREAT SUPPORT! THANK YOU EVERYONE!! We are so grateful and LOVE all of you!

We have recently been offered a new lot to build our new home in PAYSON! It is a new subdivision with beautiful view. It could not be any more perfect for our family. It is really quite funny, the lot is 3 blocks East of my sister Andrea's house, a couple of blocks from Lukie's Home-care nurse (which will be very convenient), and next door neighbors with Mike's cousin Tara! We are very excited and will hopefully move in this fall. 2012 is a very exciting year for us!

Our new neighborhood