So this is the latest update with us looking for a house to buy.
We now have everything in line to purchase a house, after waiting forever for everything to come together.
We started looking for houses everywhere! Our realtor, Tim was looking, we started looking on KSL for FSBO's, we just needed to find something fast and get out of this over priced apartment. Even if it meant to buy now and live in it for two years, then turn it into a rental and buy again.
I came across a house that looked pretty good. When I called on it and ask some questions about the house, it wasn't quite what we were looking for. It didn't have at least one garage. We were wanting at least one. So the man then asked us what we were looking for. Come to find out, this man does flips and currently was working on 12 houses, a few that he thought would fit us and were not on the market. So we met up with this guy, let's call him Jason, to look at another house he told us about. The house wasn't our favorite floor plan, but it could work. Jason saw our hesitation and told us that there was another house that he thought would work better for us. We followed him to the house and looked around. It was in the middle of being remodeled, so we had to look past that, just like our house in Colorado Springs. We did like the floor plan and everything about it! It was over 2300 sq ft, 6 bedrooms, 1 den, 3 bathrooms, a laundry room, a dinning area big enough to fit our kitchen table, a bigger backyard then the Midvale house we were attempting to buy (which is already sold now), it had a great big shed and one car garage. We were excited. There was one drawback. It was on a fairly busy street and across from a high school, Granger High. We then found out that the high school had one more year of school before it would be torn down and a park built in it's place! We couldn't pass it up.
The flip guy, Jason, helping us out, told us all the plans for the house. It was to be stuccoed along with the shed and garage, a whole new roof stripped down so there would be plenty of years ahead on it, new gutters and everything, new carpet and travertine tile in the kitchen and bathrooms, new cupboards, counter tops, appliances (not including a fridge or microwave), all new light fixtures, front door, windows, vanities in the bathrooms, new showers done with eco stone, 3 tone paint throughout the house, and...that may be it. Basically everything redone from top to bottom. The best part is the we can pick, (from what they have) our colors, carpet, counter tops and everything. This is exciting! It is well within our price and it is going to be finished in two weeks.
Tuesday night we met with Jason and signed papers, picked everything out and now we have a house that wasn't on the market and for a great price! We are very excited. There shouldn't be anything in our way this time.
We close on June 26th (Tuesday) This is good timing for us. We will pay one more month of rent, be moved in before I teach my summer cooking class and before our Family reunion...most importantly before the baby comes.
And I got a very short hair cut last night. Today I'm going to attempt to style it and make it look fantastic...or just good. We'll see how it all comes out. Stay tuned for pictures!
Thursday, May 24, 2012
5x7 Folded Card
Alphabet Blocks Father's Day Card
Mom. Dad. Kids. Christmas photo cards by Shutterfly.
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Can I just tell you how much I love Shutterfly! They are always doing promotions and free things as well as having cool stuff that you can make for presents. The latest is a FREE Father's day card. So now I have a cute card that I didn't have to spend 5 hours making at home, like last year. Now mind you it was the coolest card EVER! But it took FOREVER to make. Now this year Brian will be getting a card with pictures of him and the boys on it and I just assembled it online...cool.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
So many things have happened between now and my last post. I'm going to number them in order of what happened first. Here it goes!
1. This is the reason why I'm so far behind, I regretted writing this. We lost our house, here is the story. Our loan guy called us three days before closing and told us that our financing wasn't done...that they hadn't looked at it yet! This is insane! So we pushed the closing date back. Then he calls and tells us that we have to take care of a few things...YOU are now telling us this when we are about to close and you had all this time to tell us! Well the seller was patient with us and gave us a week and a half. SO we hurried to get it done. One was a letter that we needed. It is the only thing holding us up from buying the house. We called and called and tried to get it, still to this day (almost 30 days later) no letter in hand. The loan guy didn't help much, calling the seller himself and telling him that we couldn't get the loan, before he knew that it had been taken care of. (I'm still upset about that and all that our loan guy has done to ruin this for us.) So then our plan was to still get this letter and move on as soon as possible. Two weeks later the seller gets a hold of our realtor and tells him that if we could buy it, they'll work with us. Apparently the other buyer fell through. WOW! It was a miracle! We might get this house after all! A week and a half later, we still don't have the letter, so we gave up the house sadly, for good. To this day the letter still hasn't come. We are going to wait until the letter finally comes before we start looking for a new house again. Oh, and we have three new loan guys to look into instead of going with the one we currently have. Things are looking up!
2. Tyler had his Preschool reading celebration April 13th. It was neat to see the kids so excited about reading. When they called the student's name, a parent went up and got a candy bar, since they did all the reading and the child got a medal with a bag of fun stuff. Tyler was so proud (as we were) and wore that medal all day...until he left it at the park and it was taken within 15min. He cried that night, but we do have the pictures of him wearing it!
3. We came across the Utah Orienteering club this month (April). We gave it a try. There were three courses set up depending on your ability. We started with the beginners. They handed us a map with a compass on it that we were to use to navigate through the park to the different spots, where we punched our sheet to show we made it. We told the boys that it was a treasure hunt and that we would be using the map to find the treasure. Brian and Tyler took off and Caleb and I caught up after a few spots later. The boys had a great time taking turns punching the sheet. Tyler learned how to read a map and knew what direction to go next from the map. We had fun. However we didn't get a treasure at the end. It was a good thing that I brought some cookies, they became our yummy treasure. This club does this monthly at different sites. We hope to do more of them and graduate to actually using a compass on an upcoming adventure!
4. Caleb has been repeatedly taking off his diaper and trying to sit on the toilet. He's been telling me that he needs to go to the bathroom throughout the day. One morning we woke up early and we found him butt naked! I refused to potty train him because of everything happening and going to happen. However you can't ignore all of that when it happens daily. That night I found the training toilet and got out the underwear, pulled together the Easter candy and started the day with potty training. He has surprised us all! It took two days before he pooed in the toilet and does it every time now. It took about three days of him going pee in the toilet before he tells me every time when he needs to go and stayed dry ALL day! Over the past two and a half weeks, he has had 2-3 accidents where we have had to change his underwear during the day. I have to say that he is doing amazing! This was so much easier then training Tyler. I'd welcome this any day. We are so happy with Caleb.
5. This last one has been a bit of a shocker for, I would say us, but I think that it is really only me. With this pregnancy it seems to have been a lot like the others I have had. The doctor listening to the heart, seeing where the baby was located and how active it was thought it was a boy...I agreed with him. This whole time I was looking forward to having another boy. I LOVE boys! We would have a sports playing, home wrestling, mission going, priesthood holder family. I was excited. April 29th came and I had a thought pop into my head. I wonder if this is a girl. I remember being a little wild thing (well not at home since I had 5 older siblings and a younger one to compete with). I started to worry that I would have a little wild "me" to raise. I told Brian my thoughts and he was so kind and told me that it didn't matter. We would love her no matter what. The next day, we went in for my big ultra sound. We checked out the heart, the blood flow and everything that would or could go wrong that we have seen happen to us or a family member. No red flags yet, but it was still a little early for some to start showing up. SO for now the baby looks good and healthy. We'll be going in again for another one in a few months just to make sure. We did find out that it was in fact a GIRL! I teared up right then. I fears will now come true. I was so shocked. But you can't change this. Brian reassured me that I would be great and that we would love her no matter what. He is always right. I then thought back to all my prayers of thanking Heavenly Father for another baby and that we would be excited to have another baby in the family. She is meant to be with us. I just hope that she ends up mellowing out the boys instead of joining them. I get a little more excited everyday to know that I'll have a little girl to finally do her hair, dress her up, sew things for and teach to cook. I also look forward to teaching her why she is here and how she can get back to our Father in Heaven. Also a little girl who will love her Daddy. (Instead of two Mama's boys.)
1. This is the reason why I'm so far behind, I regretted writing this. We lost our house, here is the story. Our loan guy called us three days before closing and told us that our financing wasn't done...that they hadn't looked at it yet! This is insane! So we pushed the closing date back. Then he calls and tells us that we have to take care of a few things...YOU are now telling us this when we are about to close and you had all this time to tell us! Well the seller was patient with us and gave us a week and a half. SO we hurried to get it done. One was a letter that we needed. It is the only thing holding us up from buying the house. We called and called and tried to get it, still to this day (almost 30 days later) no letter in hand. The loan guy didn't help much, calling the seller himself and telling him that we couldn't get the loan, before he knew that it had been taken care of. (I'm still upset about that and all that our loan guy has done to ruin this for us.) So then our plan was to still get this letter and move on as soon as possible. Two weeks later the seller gets a hold of our realtor and tells him that if we could buy it, they'll work with us. Apparently the other buyer fell through. WOW! It was a miracle! We might get this house after all! A week and a half later, we still don't have the letter, so we gave up the house sadly, for good. To this day the letter still hasn't come. We are going to wait until the letter finally comes before we start looking for a new house again. Oh, and we have three new loan guys to look into instead of going with the one we currently have. Things are looking up!
2. Tyler had his Preschool reading celebration April 13th. It was neat to see the kids so excited about reading. When they called the student's name, a parent went up and got a candy bar, since they did all the reading and the child got a medal with a bag of fun stuff. Tyler was so proud (as we were) and wore that medal all day...until he left it at the park and it was taken within 15min. He cried that night, but we do have the pictures of him wearing it!
3. We came across the Utah Orienteering club this month (April). We gave it a try. There were three courses set up depending on your ability. We started with the beginners. They handed us a map with a compass on it that we were to use to navigate through the park to the different spots, where we punched our sheet to show we made it. We told the boys that it was a treasure hunt and that we would be using the map to find the treasure. Brian and Tyler took off and Caleb and I caught up after a few spots later. The boys had a great time taking turns punching the sheet. Tyler learned how to read a map and knew what direction to go next from the map. We had fun. However we didn't get a treasure at the end. It was a good thing that I brought some cookies, they became our yummy treasure. This club does this monthly at different sites. We hope to do more of them and graduate to actually using a compass on an upcoming adventure!
5. This last one has been a bit of a shocker for, I would say us, but I think that it is really only me. With this pregnancy it seems to have been a lot like the others I have had. The doctor listening to the heart, seeing where the baby was located and how active it was thought it was a boy...I agreed with him. This whole time I was looking forward to having another boy. I LOVE boys! We would have a sports playing, home wrestling, mission going, priesthood holder family. I was excited. April 29th came and I had a thought pop into my head. I wonder if this is a girl. I remember being a little wild thing (well not at home since I had 5 older siblings and a younger one to compete with). I started to worry that I would have a little wild "me" to raise. I told Brian my thoughts and he was so kind and told me that it didn't matter. We would love her no matter what. The next day, we went in for my big ultra sound. We checked out the heart, the blood flow and everything that would or could go wrong that we have seen happen to us or a family member. No red flags yet, but it was still a little early for some to start showing up. SO for now the baby looks good and healthy. We'll be going in again for another one in a few months just to make sure. We did find out that it was in fact a GIRL! I teared up right then. I fears will now come true. I was so shocked. But you can't change this. Brian reassured me that I would be great and that we would love her no matter what. He is always right. I then thought back to all my prayers of thanking Heavenly Father for another baby and that we would be excited to have another baby in the family. She is meant to be with us. I just hope that she ends up mellowing out the boys instead of joining them. I get a little more excited everyday to know that I'll have a little girl to finally do her hair, dress her up, sew things for and teach to cook. I also look forward to teaching her why she is here and how she can get back to our Father in Heaven. Also a little girl who will love her Daddy. (Instead of two Mama's boys.)
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