Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Here is my list of things I am thankful for in no particular order..
1. My beautiful family!!
2. Great friends!!
3. That we both have careers that we love!!
4. Freedom of Religion!!


I am especially thankful this year as Randall and myself are in the process of selling our current home and have just purchased our dream home. We are upgrading by about 1200 square feet, so I am very excited for the increase in space. We are set to close on Tuesday November 30th at 4pm and we take possession of the house at closing. Then the moving starts. I have roughly 50 broken down boxes in our basement and I have yet to pack a single thing. We are in an odd situation as we do not have to be moved out of our current home, since it has not sold yet. Hence the procrasitination on my part about packing. We are also only moving a short distance, 6 miles up the road to be exact. We are moving from the south end of our town to the north end, so we will be able to make lots of little trips. I envision that we will be doing more trips than actual packing. The real moving such as furniture and larger items will be the week of December 6th(what a great way to spend vacation). I pray for a good transition for Karli as she will probably have the roughest adjustment. Not only will she be moving into a new house, but she will be moving into a big girl bed as well. I must quit rambling now and go go bed..


HAPPY THANKSGIVING !!!!

My Beautiful Children

Here is just one of the photos we had done of the kids recently. In these the kids are 12 1/2, 28 months and 8 1/2 months old...I will post the rest when I get the disc in a few weeks..

Two Houses for a family of 5!!!

Yep you read right. We are about to be the owners of two houses. We decided almost 2 years ago to start looking for another house, after placing our house on the market for over 6 months, we had to take it back off the market to make some necessary repairs caused by water damage, then it was the wrong "season" to list the house again so we waited. In May of this year we place our house back on the market and waited, and waited. Last time our house went on the market we were flooded with showings, this time not so much. I decided after last time of finding our dream home only to lose it that I wasnt going to be really gung ho about looking this time around. We went and looked at a house here and there but no serious looking. Well a few weeks ago, I found two houses that I LOVED and that were in the same sub-division. (Showings had finally picked up on our house, since two price drops) We decided to go look at them, well there were things about both that we loved. The difference was the almost $40,000 price difference in the 4/2 and the 4/3.5 homes. Then they dropped the price by over 15k on the larger house. OK lets go look at them again and see if they will take a contingency contract(basically wait for a contract on our house before we buy thiers). After looking at both houses, we decided to make an offer on the larger of the two. Now picture in your mind, me and Randall complete with measuring tapes, measuring the size of the rooms to make sure our tables would fit and everything.Keep in mind that the larger of the two houses has an ESIK(eating space in kitchen) and a dining room, while the other only has a ESIK. So Friday a week ago, we sit down and decide to put an offer on the home, the sellers accepted the price but not the contingency part of the contract, along with some other things, so we decided to counter-offer. We lowered the price offered by 5K(now 31K less than original asking price) and made some other amendments and dropped the contingency part. THEY ACCEPTED!!!! We signed the final contract on Friday, and are waiting to get it back from the sellers(this should be Monday or Tuesday) and then the ball will be really rolling. For now the closing date is November 30th. Yep, just 4 short weeks away. We have an Open House scheduled for next Sunday the 7th, for our current house, so keep praying that we get a solid contract so that we can avoid paying two mortgages. The good thing is that our two mortgages will still be what most people pay in one mortgage...So two houses for our family of 5...