TAGGED RULES:
1. Post Rules on your blog
2. Answer the six '8' items
8 favorite shows
1. Grey's Anatomy
2. Private Practice
3. Brothers and Sisters
4. Top Chef
5. Burn Notice
6. The Office
7. Sons of Anarchy
8. Jon & Kate Plus 8
8 things I did yesterday
1. went grocery shopping
2. played outside with Josh
3. texted Brad
4. talked with our Realtor
5. made dinner
6. cried
7. ate some ice cream (yum, chocolate chip cookie dough)
8. went to bed
8 things I look forward to (not necessarily in any order)
1. Buying a house
2. Being able to have our own space again
3. DirecTV and my DVR (yes, I might be a little shallow)
4. Being able to use my laptop again
5. Going to the movies with Brad
6. Going out to dinner with Brad
7. Spring
8. Bed
8 favorite restaurants
1. Red Robin
2. Outback
3. Red Lobster
4. Chao Praya (not really considered a restaurant I guess)
5. Ivar's
6. Don't get to
7. eat out
8. very often
8 things on my wish list
1. A house
2. All the things that go into owning a home
3. More time to spend with my hubby
4. Warmer weather
5. Going on a family vacation this year!
6. More sleep
7. To start working out again
8. Being a better mom
8 people to tag
Who ever wants to play!
1.17.2009
1.13.2009
House Hunting - Part II
So we went up again to look at houses last weekend, and again last night. I'm getting pretty tired of driving back and forth to go and look at houses - I can't imagine that Brad does that drive every day!! Crazy.
Well there was another house that we liked, but who knows. I'm so leery about finding a house, getting interested in it, and all of that. I just don't want to get my hopes up again. And it's so frustrating when our realtor makes an appointment to go look at a house, and the day that we drive up there to look at it, the people call and say "well we don't really want our house shown today, it doesn't fit into our schedule". Umm...what? It doesn't fit into your schedule?!? Do they really want to sell there house or not? Why it is even on the market? We had to make time to do that when we were selling our house. Yeah, sometimes it can be inconvenient, but you gotta do it.
So far we've looked at 10 houses and haven't been able to look at 4 others, so that's 14 houses total! Yikes. I'm exhausted, I know Brad is. And all of the houses are running together now. I can't keep them straight even from the pictures. I just hope something comes up soon. I mean, now is really the time to buy a house! Well keep your fingers crossed, we need a little luck to come our way.
Well there was another house that we liked, but who knows. I'm so leery about finding a house, getting interested in it, and all of that. I just don't want to get my hopes up again. And it's so frustrating when our realtor makes an appointment to go look at a house, and the day that we drive up there to look at it, the people call and say "well we don't really want our house shown today, it doesn't fit into our schedule". Umm...what? It doesn't fit into your schedule?!? Do they really want to sell there house or not? Why it is even on the market? We had to make time to do that when we were selling our house. Yeah, sometimes it can be inconvenient, but you gotta do it.
So far we've looked at 10 houses and haven't been able to look at 4 others, so that's 14 houses total! Yikes. I'm exhausted, I know Brad is. And all of the houses are running together now. I can't keep them straight even from the pictures. I just hope something comes up soon. I mean, now is really the time to buy a house! Well keep your fingers crossed, we need a little luck to come our way.
1.05.2009
Maddie
Well I forgot all about posting Maddie's one year appointment. Not much to tell I guess, but I need to write a few things anyways. She weighed 18 lbs, 12 oz - which is more than what Josh weighed when he was a year old! I can't believe she finally weighs more than what he did. She is in the 30th percentile for her height and she now has 4 teeth. We just bought her a toothbrush and she loves to brush her teeth. She just starts giggling whenever I start brushing. It's so cute and she's such a good little girl. She is started to get a little attitude, which I'm not liking in the least - but hopefully it's just a phase (I know - yeah right!). She had to get four shots at this appointment and her finger pricked again to check for anemia. No word back on that yet, so maybe she's finally not anemic. So she's getting older now and hopefully we can turn her around in her car seat very soon. Which reminds me that we need to buy her a new car seat like now!
House Hunting
Dun, dun, dun...well there hasn't really been too much of it happening. Brad has been working a TON lately (and when I say ton - I mean he just worked 40 hours straight over the weekend!!!), so there hasn't been too many opportunities for us to go and look. We've been looking a lot online and finding some, but you just don't know until you actually look at the house in person.
We thought we had found a great house, it was a rambler, 2200 sq. ft. on 2 acres. It had 4 bedrooms plus an office/den. It had all hardwood floors and was brand new, but after we got the inspection done we changed our minds! We actually did put an offer in and it was accepted, but the inspection and just plain thinking things through kind of changed our minds a little. Today, we decided to retract our offer and start from square one again. But it's ok, and we feel that we've made the right decision. The inspector found a lot of stuff wrong underneath the house, it was just a bad drywall job, and the jetted tub in the master bath and the kitchen sink were just set in the space and not anchored down! Oh well. It was well worth the $300 to have the inspection done. Better to be safe than sorry!
So now the hunting begins again. I think we're (and when I say that I mean Brad) going to have to compromise a little bit more than we thought. It just hard to find a house with a lot of property any more these days in our price range. And the houses that we have found that have property just need a lot of work (i.e. new carpet, new kitchen etc). But I have found a few more promising houses, so we'll see. Keep your fingers crossed!
We thought we had found a great house, it was a rambler, 2200 sq. ft. on 2 acres. It had 4 bedrooms plus an office/den. It had all hardwood floors and was brand new, but after we got the inspection done we changed our minds! We actually did put an offer in and it was accepted, but the inspection and just plain thinking things through kind of changed our minds a little. Today, we decided to retract our offer and start from square one again. But it's ok, and we feel that we've made the right decision. The inspector found a lot of stuff wrong underneath the house, it was just a bad drywall job, and the jetted tub in the master bath and the kitchen sink were just set in the space and not anchored down! Oh well. It was well worth the $300 to have the inspection done. Better to be safe than sorry!
So now the hunting begins again. I think we're (and when I say that I mean Brad) going to have to compromise a little bit more than we thought. It just hard to find a house with a lot of property any more these days in our price range. And the houses that we have found that have property just need a lot of work (i.e. new carpet, new kitchen etc). But I have found a few more promising houses, so we'll see. Keep your fingers crossed!
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