Moving

Today We are loading everything up into the trailor, and tomarrow we will be moving into our new home yea!!! The internet will be turned off today, so I won't be on here for a little while unless I can get everything hooked up fast or get to a computer. Thanks everyone for your thoughts, prayers, concerns, and comments, they are very much needed and appreciated!!! Oh I so can't wait to be able to decorate MY HOUSE the way I want and not have to paint it back the way it was when we moved in. If you have any great ideas let me know. Talk to you all soon!

We did it!!!

Well it's official, we are now homeowners! I'm so excited, but still a little stressed because we are in limbo still. It has been a very stressful month. It seems to me that everything seems to go wrong when you buy a home. First problem was the appraisal. They were having a hard time getting it to appraise at the price the sellers listed it for. It appraised at $187,000. We were afraid the sellers wouldn't go through with it since they would be loosing money. Luckily for us they did. They wouldn't pay our closing costs, and they wouldn't pay for the repairs that were required to be done before we moved in. That was okay to us because we got the house at a way lower price. It turned out to be a nightmare though. We found all of this out on Friday the 14th of March. We had to have all of the repairs done before the 25th. I thought it wouldn't be such a big deal to replace a sliding glass door. I was wrong it takes about a week and a half to have the installers to come out and measure it get the glass and install it, which would put us over our deadline. I called around for a week trying to find someone, and then our Realtor found someone that would come out and measure it correctly, and it turns out the door was a special order and would take longer to get in and would cost over a $1000 to order and install. I was sick to my stomach. I found this out on the 21st, and was in tears. I tryed calling our lender, she wasn't there. I tried calling our realtor, but he was out of town, and had left the name of one of his partners to get in contact with. I didn't want to call him because I didn't know him, luckily I had the number of one of the girls in his office that has been helping us so much. She is such a sweetheart and calmed me down. Her and our realtor's partner made it work for us. They were awesome, we found someone that would come out and just replace the glass for $250. Good price, better than over a $1000. The glass was replaced on Monday the 24th at 11:00. Our other repair that needed to be done was to sand and repaint the deck. We thought that would be simple as well. I was wrong again, well for part of it anyways. It started out good. We had borrowed my Brother in Laws pressure washer to get the old paint off of the deck. We started doing this on Thursday the 20th because that was the only date that we could start doing it. So Matt got soaked and was freezing while using the pressure washer to get the paint off. Doing this was a 2 day job. Saturday the 22nd was the day we had set to paint the deck. It started out okay with getting the areas taped with newspapers so we wouldn't get paint on the house. Then we were ready to use the paint sprayer that we again had borrowed from my brother in law. It wouldn't work. It wouldn't suck up the paint so we couldn't spray it. We messed with the thing for 45 minutes waisting precious time. We had to accept the fact it wasn't going to work and that we would have to paint it by hand. There were 3 of us: Matt, me, and my brother Quinn. It took us about 3-4 hrs to paint the deck. It was sunny, but windy so we were freezing the whole time. We got it done though which matters most. We got everything done at the last minute so we had to extend our closing date so it would give time for the appraiser to get out to the property to sign it off and get it back to the lender so they could prepare all of the paperwork for closing. It gets better though in the midst of all of this our car had major problems, so we were car less for a few days until we could borrow a car. We have to replace the timing belt, tires, air conditioner compressor, and the work we already had done was replace the air conditioner clutch and another part. Again I was sick to my stomach, but we're making it through it like we have been. I forgot to mention that I had my Sweet cousins husband come out and fix our drywall problem. He made it look so much better. Thank you Darci and Ryan!!! I tryed very hard to stay positive this month, but yes I had some major breakdowns, and hard to sleep nights. The important part is that we never quit praying, and having faith. Yes we were worried sick, and stressed out of our minds, but if it is meant to be it will happen. I love our Heavenly Father and Jesus for making this possible for us to raise our family in a home of our own. I'm so excited to start our new adventure!!! Wish us luck....=)

Our Home!!!

Well our rental contract is just about through. I can't believe how time flies. Back in October we signed a 6 month rental contract for the house we are in now. They agreed to 6 months because if there was a chance that we wanted to buy we wouldn't have to pay Realtor fees, and they could just sell by owner. Well it turns it we don't want to buy this house, it's not for us for many reasons. First it's way out of our price range, second I don't like the layout so much, 3rd Lot's of things have been bugging me about this house, 4th it's so far away from everything. I would totally buy out in the stansbury tooele area if they would put a tunnel through the mountain so I wouldn't have to drive around it to get to where I wanted to go. It's a huge pain in the butt. So this past weekend we decided we needed to make some appointments with a Realtor to go see some houses. We had about 20 houses, and Matt picked 9 to go and look at. Our Realtor got appointments for all 9 this past Monday. The first one was a huge disappointment way overpriced I think for the condition. the second one was beautiful!!! We loved everything about it, except for 2 rooms that needed paint that I would like. That's easy to fix. We decided to keep going to see what the other houses looked like. They were all so disappointing and so expensive. while we were out and about on our trek our Realtor talked to the Realtor of the house we did like to see if it was still on the market. Our Realtor Doug told us the house had been on the market for 11 days. He said the other realtor said that they had a busy weekend, and that they might have an offer that evening. Doug said that he didn't want to put pressure on us at all, but he didn't want us to come to him the next day and say yeah we want to put an offer down, and find out it was too late. So me feeling scared and nervous agreed with Matt to put an offer down. We finished all the paper work at about 6:30 or so. We heard back from Doug at 9:00 that evening and told us the people selling put down a counter offer which we agreed too. It turns out they didn't have anybody coming that night to put down an offer, they sucked us right in. We're Suckers. It's okay though because WE HAVE A HOUSE OF OUR OWN!!!! I'm so excited it's beautiful. My only regret is that it's not any closer to my Mom. We were trying to be about 10 minutes away, but it just wasn't possible. Everything was out of our price range. We will be about 20 min. which isn't bad at all. We will be closing March 25th or sooner. I hope all goes well and that we're approved. We should have no problem. I just keep praying that if it's right it will happen. Heavenly Father knows what is best for us and our situation. I'm so grateful that things are coming together. Our landlords are putting the house on the market this Monday. The sign should be out in the front yard this weekend. We are going to fix McKenzie's big no no this Saturday. I'm so grateful for my brother in law Justin. He is going to tack down our carpet, and help fix the drywall. Oh yeah we are still without a Microwave, it's been almost a month without having a microwave. I now know that I will never take having a microwave for granted again. It's amazing how much a person uses a microwave. I love how convenient they are! A little side note: My Mom was released from the Hospital on Valentines Day. She is in Georgia still at her sister's house. It turns out that My Mom might have a disease for the rest of her life. I can't remember what the name of the disease is called, but it's where your capillaries burst inside of you, which is why they found blood in her lungs. She can treat this with steroids, but can still have relapses. When she gets back to Utah she is going to see a specialist doc to get a second opinion. Good news though she found out today that she is able to be off oxygen for good, and that she is coming home this Tuesday! Hooray!!!

Nothing like a good clean house!!!

So I was able to clean my house today, it's been awhile since I deep cleaned it. I just haven't had the time. I've been really busy with the holiday and all!!! So I kept telling myself Okay no more excuses, get it done. I put a movie on for the girls and started cleaning. When I got to the kitchen I had a little problem. We had a bottle of Jet dry tip over under the sink. I guess the lid wasn't on tight and spilled everywhere. Lovely I tell you, even better the sink was leaking. Why does it all have to happen at once? I kept calm cleaned it up and didn't use the sink for the rest of the day. It stunk having to use the bathroom sink instead of the kitchen sink to mop the floor. I wasn't sure how I was going to do dishes, because we had a full dishwasher, and no way to really wash them in the sink without it draining everwhere. I was able to clean my mom's bathroom, and make it nice again. I can't wait to get the carpet tacked back down, and cleaned. Hopefully we can do it soon. When Matt came home from work he looked at the sink to see what the problem was. he could tell where it was leaking from, but he didn't know how to fix it. He ended up calling Adam our landlord to let him know. Adam knew exatcly what was wrong because they had the same problem. It turns out the handle on the sprayer came loose, and we didn't see it. Matt tightened it, and it fixed the problem!!! I'm so grateful that it wasn't a big problem. I was afraid to say anything about what could go wrong next.... Hopefully nothing. We really need a break! So anyways yes I got my house cleaned, laundry done, myself ready for the day, and fixed some leftovers for dinner. I love it when i'm able to keep a handle on things, it makes me feel so good. Even better I was able to go and play volleyball again for a couple of hrs!!!

March Of the Penguins

Have you seen this movie yet??? We watched this Sunday night. It's very interesting!!! It so makes me not want to be a Penguin that's for sure. It's amazing what they do day in and day out. If you haven't seen it rent it.

Got Milk???

Now doesn't this just make you want to drink MILK????

I think it's so funny how little kids when they are learning how to drink from a regular cup get the biggest mustaches from whatever it might be that they are drinking!!! McKenzie is doing so much better, but still gets that mustache, not quite as bad as Madisynn though! = )

Sledding day in Evanston Wyoming

So Yesterday we went sledding by my older brother Chris's house in Evanston Wyoming. We have been planning this for quite awhile. We haven't seen Chris and his family since Christmas, and we were all excited to see them! Since this month has been a busy month already, I kept putting off the fact that we needed to buy snow gear for Matt and I, and some waterproof mittens for the girls. So of course last minute we're looking around different stores to see what they have. Of course we couldn't find anything at walmart, sears, Target, which means that we would have to go to a specialty store to get it. Which usually means more money. We are really trying to save right now, and it kills me when we have to spend so much money on something that we are barely going to use. I could kick myself for procrastinating and not buying it back in November when I bought the girls their snowsuits. I just didn't think that Matt and I would need it. It kind of ticks me off though that stores are putting up their summer stuff already. Yes I want it to be summer, but it's the middle of February for crying out loud!!! It's still Winter people come on. Anyways we were able to get everything put together so we could enjoy our sledding adventure. We did have lot's of fun!!! McKenzie was having fun until she biffed it, and then she wouldn't go down the hill on a sled again. I thought it would be the other way around, that Madisynn would be totally miserable scared and wouldn't want to do it. Boy was I wrong!!! She had so much fun! She was so funny, she would lay down on the little sledding disk and we would push her down the hill she had a big smile on her face the whole time. Of course their was someone always at the bottom of the hill to get her if there were problems. Thank goodness there was no problems. Matt was a good daddy and spent most of the time with her. I think he had a major blast. McKenzie little stinker kept taking off the waterproof gloves that my sister in law loaned us. Her hands were frozen. She was still having fun, but I know that it would have been better if she would have kept her hands warm. She spent most of the time playing in the snow around the playground area with my nephew Jack.

Her hands look FREEZING to me, don't you think?!!!

We spent close to a couple of hrs sledding, so it was totally worth going! After we were done sledding we went back to my brother's house did some good talking while eating dougnets, and drinking hot cocoa! You can't go sledding without the dougnets, and hot cocoa. We played a fun game that Matt and I got for Chris and Sara a couple of years ago for Christmas. I wanted to get if for ourselfs, and I could kick myself for not, because I haven't been able to find it since. It's called Hear Me Out. I won, totally kicked everyone's butt's! That never happens! After the game we had some yummy soup, salad, and rolls. Man I love hanging out with family and friends. To me there is nothing better than that!!!