Ready to Go

Well this will be the last thing I will blog until after we move. We will be closing tomorrow at 2 pm and everything is all ready for us to sign our name about two million times tomorrow.

We have the truck all set up for 7:30 am on Saturday, the elders quorum set up to help us load the truck, and the RS ready to help us clean the condo.

I have the phone and Direct TV all set up and I will be getting power, water, gas, etc. all set up this afternoon if all goes well.

There is an endless list of things to do and it seems to be getting bigger rather than smaller.

We are almost all the way packed and we are running out of places to stack the boxes. Ryan is taking Friday off to help with the last minute packing, Thank Goodness!

But we are excited and already worn out from all the packing and we still have to move and unpack. I guess it doesn't help that all of us have the cold that just wont go away!

Anyway I think we are going to have a house warming "get together" once we get settled so watch for the details.

Wish us luck!!

Packing

We are now in full packing mode. We have got the good word from the bank, insurance company and realtors so it looks like we are good to go!
Ryan called and reserved a truck for next Saturday because it looks like we will be able to get into the house next Saturday afternoon. We have to be out of here no latter than late Saturday night...so anyone who wants to help??? We get the truck at 7:30 am on Saturday morning and will start packing it up soon after that. We are going to see if the kids can go over the the Ropers for the day and play while we get everything moved, but we still have to ask Jen and Craig if that is possible. I think it will just be easier not having to have the kids under foot for at least part of the day.
Ryan is getting so excited he went to Lowe's and was looking at lawn mowers!! That says a lot since there is still a foot of snow on the ground.
We are almost there... just 6 more sleeps till we close!

9 More Days!!

Its is now just 9 days until we close on our new home. Yeah!! We are packing like crazy and I'm working at getting all of my homeowners stuff done and out of here.
There are so many thing we had not thought of like...getting a new homeowners insurance policy done. There are just things like that we don't think of until after we move but we have to get everything set up before we even close, which is werid to me becasue we really don't own the place yet.
Ethan is getting excited, he asks to help me pack boxes all the time. Holly, I don't think knows whats really about to happen. The cats know that something big is in the works and are getting all upset.
Oh the joy of moving!!!

"Duh" Moment

I have had a couple "Duh" moments this winter. The one I had this morning was because the lack of sleep I'm sure but... as a valentins gift to my wonderful husband I'm am posting both of my "duh" moments here so that he and everyone else can have a good laugh at my expense.
First a couple of weeks ago just after one of our big snow storms I was coming home from taking Ethan to school and made a poor choice. If any of you have been to our house there are 2 condo buildings on either side of a kind of a driveway. Well there has been so much snow that the plow didn't have anywhere to put all of it so they put one large strip of snow down the middle of each drive. So I made the bad choice of trying to drive through this large man made snow bank rather than trying to make the tight turn into our paking spot, so that I could make a wider turn. Anyway I got high centered in the snow bank and it took Ryan and I with the help of two other guys nice enough to help dig me out. "Duh" number 1.
Now to today - I was pulling into our place and hit the gas instead of the brake and ran right into a large pile of snow in front of my paking space. I got stuck but I was able to get out my self without any help. "Duh" number 2.
Total Lack of Sleep!!! Mason has been getting up 4 and 5 times a night and there is no time for naps in the day with us moving in two weeks.
Ryan had a great laugh and I will be very glad when this winter is over, we move and Mason starts sleeping though the night.

Happy Birthday Ryan!!

Today is my sweethearts 36th Birthday! Ethan had him open one of his gifts last night because he just couldn't keep it a screct anymore. You should have seen the drama...Ryan wanted to wait till today and Ethan started jumping up and down, saying "please, please, please open it now". He even started crying! I gave in and told Ryan to just open it and so he did. We got him a wireless guitar for our PS2 and his Guitar Hero games. It is pretty cool looking to and of course Ryan had to try it out. Ethan was so happy he was playing "air guitar" along with his Dad. It was so cute!
We are going to dinner as a family tonight and then we are having our friends the Ropers over for cake and ice cream on Saturday.
We also got the good news that our condo pasted inspection and there is nothing we need to do with it before closing. Yeah! The new house is being appraised this week and we should be good to close on the 28th on both houses. Joy!
Happy Birthday Ryan! We love you more than you will ever know!

Inspection/Birthday

We had our condo inspected this morning and the kids and I took the opportunity to go and do Ryan's Birthday shopping, seeing how his birthday is in two days. I would tell you what we got him but Ryan reads our blog so I can 't tell you, but it is so cool! I'm very proud of myself for finding something so cool. I have just got what ever Ryan tells me he wants in the past, which isn't much fun becasue there is no surprise. But I think he will be surprised this year.
We should hear about our inspection in the next couple of days. I'm praying everything is fine and we don't have to find any money to do something big.
Anyway I will not worry before there is a reason to be worried...right?

We are going to go out for dinner on Ryan's Birthday, just our family and then have everyone over for cake and ice cream on Saturday. I will be calling everyone today but if I miss you everyone is welcome to come and wish Ryan a Happy Birthday.

Inspection

We just got back from our new house. It was being inspected today, so we got to hear everything that was wrong with it. Nothing major, thank goodness but there are a few things that need attending to.
Now that we have the ball rolling I can't wait and time is not moving fast enough. Did I say that....
Yes, after going back through the house with new eyes we got to look at it as to where we are going to put stuff and it gets me all excited. Now I'm like a little kid waiting for Christmas to come.
We took our friend Craig Roper (he lives really close) with us so we could show him the house and he was telling us where things were in the neighborhood. We really looked at the homes around us and got excited for the kids becasue their are a ton of homes with swing sets around, which says to me there will be lots of other kids for them to make friends with.
Anyway once everything has been done or rather corrected by the current home owner we will go back through a couple days before closing to make sure it's been done. Now we need to get ready for our condo's inpection on Monday.
I hope all of this will go smooth and fast. I want to move now!

HOLY CRAP!

Holy Crap we have a house!! Im so happy I don't know what to do with myself.
Now we have inspections, paperwork, packing, etc. to do all in the next 3 weeks thats only 21 days! Did I say "Holy Crap" already!
Anyway - now we will have a house that we can have family and friends over and have room for everyone. This house is just over 1900 sq. feet and a big back yard so now I'm looking forward to Holly's Birthday. Yeah!
Oh and we have room for my Mom when she comes to visit, plus now we will be in Clinton which is closer to my brother in Clearfield and closer to Ryan's family, although it's only about 30 min. closer (Sorry Rhonda).
I'm just so happy!!

Cross Your Fingers

Okay - we found a house we REALLY like. It is in Clinton, 4 bed, 2bath and huge yard! It is almost a 1/4 of an acre lot. It is in our wonderful friends, the Ropers, stake and their are lots of kids around for our kids.
We put in an offer this morning early, our realtor was here at 7:15 this morning for us to sign the offer paperwork. Now we are praying REALLY hard that we get it. I'm trying not to get my hopes up but I think I have failed miserably!
I guess all we can do is pray! Any help in that department would be very appreciated.

Sold!

Our counter offer was accpected! Now we are stressed out because we need to be out of here in 3 weeks! We are looking for a house now.
Pray that we find what we need!

We Have an Offer!

Yeah - we got an offer on our condo! It came in a little low so we made an counter offer to them. We hope that they take it because we think it is a nice middle ground. Its hard because we can only go so low or we won't be able to get enough of a down payment for a new home for us.
Anyway if they take it we are going to have to find a house fast, because the buyers want to be in here by the end of February!! We have about 4 houses we want to look at, 2 in Roy, 1 in Clearfield and one here in North Ogden. I hope we can pull this off and if we do we won't be blogging for a few weeks.
We will keep you posted.

Digging Out...Again!

Today was a snow day - they canceled church!! We got over a foot of snow today and we are going to get up to another 3 to 5 inches over night tonight. That is on top of the 6 inches of the white stuff we got last Thursday. Will it ever end!
I know we need the snow for the water it will give us this summer but now we have so much that I fear we will be filling sand bags come spring.
Ryan and I have thought of this as the story of the children of Israel and the mana from heaven. Yeah snow, great snow, snow, and then enough snow already.
I think it is just our luck becasue we are trying to sell our condo and I don't think we are going to have much luck because who whats to move in this!

Now we are praying for an early spring!