Easter 2010 part one anyway...

Yea I know it's not Easter for another week but with General Conference next Sunday, we decided today was the day we were gonna dress in our Easter outfits. We reused some outfits that were used for a wedding in September and I think it looked pretty good....especially since no one was in a "picture taking mood" after three hours of church AND I had just woken up the baby! This was the first time I have actually gotten to look at the Easter dresses in the stores and purchase one. Way too fun! Little T looked adorable and she even let me take some hundred or so pictures of her..hee hee.

Happy Easter and spring break too!

Round Two

Found another house. Liked it as much if not more then the last one. Made an offer. Both realtors signed off on it. House also needed signature from asset manager because it was a foreclosure. Spent another weekend wondering if we would get this house. Pretty much planning on getting this house. Kids called this house the fort house. It had a great tree fort/play set in the back yard. We were supposed to close on April 20th. This house had been on the market for 115 days with no offer until us. Monday night I get a knock on my door and it's my realtor to tell me that out of no where the realtor gets an ALL cash offer with no contingency...meaning no house inspection. This house was built in 1989...it needed a house inspection and who can compete with an ALL CASH offer. Mondays are quickly becoming my least favorite day of the week. They weren't ever too high on my list anyway but apparently all bad news regarding homes for us comes on Mondays. Homeless once again. Doesn't even seem like there are any houses on the market to go and look at. Sad...Mad..then sad again...now just tired.

Breaking up....

My friend put this heading on her Facebook account on Monday:

"Monday, I'm breaking up with you. I'm already thinking about Tuesday and dreaming about Friday!"

This past Monday I was SOOOO there. It was raining and dreary here. Day light savings always kicks my butt every time and it takes me forever to get used to it again. I woke up to the sound of my husband's cell phone going off down stairs. It's very loud. I hate it.

We had actually been waiting for it to ring all weekend long though. We had put an offer on a house last Tuesday, they had countered our offer on Wednesday, we had put in another offer on Thursday and were told that was exactly what they needed and we were as good as done. We waited though to get the proof of the contract back. I don't care what anybody says, I want it in writing. All day Friday nothing...ALL day Saturday nothing. All day Sunday ..nothing!!! We were going crazy but were told.."no worries, they live in the country and cell reception is bad but everything is still good!" We still worried but would find ourselves talking about which rooms we would put the kids in, what colors we would paint the rooms, what kind of riding lawn mower we would get (it was a beautiful house on THREE acres with a FOUR car garage next to an amazing horse farm. My kids were in wonderland and had told their friends they were moving to a horse farm!)


Then Monday came...then the phone rang at 7am....and that is when were were told in the darkness of day light savings...that our beautiful home had THREE other offers that came in on SATURDAY (wait..i thought they didn't work on Saturday..hmm?) and two were for 10k over the asking price and one had an escalation clause on it which means no matter what anyone else offered these people would raise their offer higher!

I was stunned and just sat there in the darkness and my migraine started....

So now it's Wednesday and we are trying to move on. We don't have time really to have a pity party because if we want to get the 8k tax credit we need to close by April 30! So we get back on the computer and stare at potential houses that just aren't as cool as our horse farm house and I feel like I'm going through a break up. I know my husband would laugh at me for saying that but I can't help it. That house had things I didn't even know I really wanted and so now I'm having the hardest time looking again. I know I need to have faith that things will work out and just like how the sun has come out this week to shine and warm us up...I know we will find a place to call home too.....but...we will..miss you...horse house farm......sniff sniff.....

February 2010

I'm not sure I will ever forget this month. Between the crazy historical snowstorms that shut us down for two weeks and all the other things we did in between, I'm not sure how we made it to March...but we did.

It started with my husband taking a trip to NY with his mom, sister, and brother in law to see their grandmother who wasn't doing so well. They were gone for five days and managed to get from here to upstate New York without hitting any major snow all while there were storms hitting the east coast. I still think that was a huge miracle for us. They got back just in time to get home safely before the two weeks of crazy snow. And I survived with a little help from my sister Tiff during the five days too!

Then it was my turn. My sisters and I decided to try and get together for our oldest sister's 40th birthday. She lives near Vegas and the idea of warmer weather and seeing my sisters was enough to get me on a plane. I had planned on taking the baby but in the two weeks time between buying the tickets and flying, she stopped nursing all together. I will say I was VERY nervous about leaving her home, and shed a tear more than once while I was gone. Something about being with a baby 24/7 and then not at all was much harder than I thought. She did great and has become quite the little Daddy's girl since then. I think he fed her chocolate every night I was gone...j/k!

Once I got over the initial shock of leaving the kiddos and hubby behind, I had a blast with the my sisters and mom. We got to sit and talk, hang out in the hot tub, go to get pedicures, went out for yummy Italian food, and even got to go see a movie called "When in Rome" (super cute movie by the way!) which was very fitting after the Italian food. The time went by way too fast and I'm already thinking that since we are all two years apart, this should become a tradition....Tiff you are up next!

In between snow, and trips we kept looking for a house which takes up WAY too much of our time ...and no, there is no good news on that front! I actually typed into the search engine the other day "houses that don't suck". Guess what, nothing came up! No surprise there! The rest of our waking hours have been taken up driving to and from basketball practices and games because both T and H have started basketball this year. Since I love basketball, I was really hoping that maybe they would love it to. It was a little slow at first, but once they got the hang of it, they both have done really well and seem to like it way more then they ever did soccer.

We ended the month celebrating C's 4th birthday. He had some friend's come over for some cake and ice cream, we went out to a great wing's place as a family and he had a Superman cake that we made. I told him a while ago that he couldn't play a sport until he turned 4. He got a thermos as one of his presents and he has kept that thing filled with water on the counter ready to go to soccer whenever it starts. I have to be careful about him because he takes things SOOO literally that if you tell him he gets to do something, he assumes you me RIGHT NOW! Another funny thing he has done lately is with his underwear. At Christmas time he got some new size 4 underwear. He wouldn't wear it because he said he wasn't 4. The other day I found some under wear on the floor and asked him why it was there. He said "Mom, it's a size 3 and I'm not three anymore!". I tried to explain that size didn't always mean how old you were but I'm not sure he believes me yet! Such a funny kid! Happy Birthday little man!!