SALE PENDING!

I know I haven't blogged in a long time, but I either haven't had anything to tell about or have just been too busy!  I will try to give a rundown of what has happened around here in the last 2 months since my last post. 

The end of January started off a month full of birthdays for us.  Reagan turned 2 on Jan. 30th, then Hayden turned 3 on Feb 7th, then I turned 21 on Feb. 24th ;) and finally Logan turned 10 at the end of Feb. (leap day child)  We have been trying to sell our starter home that we bought and completely remodeled 8 years ago since the end of September. Finally on the first Monday of March we got an offer.  We also had put an offer in on a new home in the Cub River area.  It was accepted and we are closing on both homes at the end of this month. We are very sad to leave our house.  We have so many memories here and the most wonderful neighbors in the world! (Seriously we won the lottery when it comes to neighbors) I remember when we first bought this house the doors that they had on it were interior doors and weren't keeping anything or anyone out.  That was the first thing we did when we got the keys was replace the exterior doors. In doing so we also noticed that the exterior walls weren't insulated and the wiring was ancient.  I picked up a hammer and whacked a big hole in the plaster and the rest is history as they say.  We basically rebuilt this place. Once we moved in we have potty trained 2 kids here, had birthday parties, Christmas parties, neighborhood bbq's, Hayden and Reagan where born while living here, the list goes on and on. I look around and see my personal touches everywhere.  I don't know the people we are selling to. Just that they are newly weds and don't have any kids yet.  I hope that they will make this home their own and enjoy it as much as we have.  They truely are getting more than they are paying for. I wish in the contract we could have put neighbors not included, but I know that they will be welcomed to the block and will really enjoy their new home.  Now let me tell you about the  new house.  It is only 4 years old, right now it is a 3 bedroom 2 bath home with beautiful knotty alder cabinets and hard wood floors and stainless steel appliances. It already has an rv pad poured for our camp trailer, a nice deck off the kitchen and big bedrooms with very spacious and organized closets.  Once we sign on the dotted line we will finish the basement making it a 7 (6 legal) bedroom 3 bath home with another living room and walk out basement.  All the kids will have their own bedrooms which they are very excited about. I will have a room for my vinyl cutter and all my scrapbooking and crafts, and we will still have one room left for any guests that come to see us.  Oh did I mention 1.07 acres!  I am very excited about that. Even though the house is 4 years old no one has touched the yard. It is a blank slate.  I have a ton of ideas for the yard starting with a sprinkler system and sod.  I hope my bank account will support my big ideas! LOL  We hope to be spending Easter in our new home. 

Eric also got a new job! It is with the same company, but a different position.  He is now a crane operator.  He gets to enjoy air conditioning in the summer and a heater in the winter.  It also isn't going to be hard on his body so hopefully we can avoid a lot of surgeries that many of they guys who work out there end up having.  (knee, back, and shoulder)  His new job has come at a great time. New job comes with a very nice raise which will come in very handy with our new mortgage.


Other than selling the house and birthdays we have been really sick around here.  It started with me getting a sore throat, nasty cough, body aches. The works. Then just when I started feeling like I was getting over that I started having really bad chest pains and back pain. I went to the E.R. and at first they thought I was having a heart attack. After 4 hours of tests including urine sample, blood work, E.K.G., x-ray. G.I. cocktail, IV injected dye and a cat scan they concluded that they have no idea what's wrong with me.  I can't wait to see THAT bill.  Don't you think if you go through all that and they can't tell you what's wrong and fix it your visit should be free?  Thankfully I am feeling better and whatever was wrong isn't anymore.  Then Baylee somehow got shingles! Yes I said shingles.  No she has never had chicken pox. This is Baylee she NEVER gets sick and has the immune system like a steel bunk house.  Medical mysteries around here I am telling you.  They started on the back of her neck then spread around her left shoulder and left side of her chest.  She got a week out of school but is looking much better now. She will be going back to school on Tuesday.  Hayden and Reagan both have the stomach flu and are miserable! I feel so bad for them. They have had it for 2 days now and I am hoping tomorrow they will be back to normal.  I know it has to be stress that is making us all so suseptable  to all this gunk.  Hopefully it will all be over soon and we will be done with the buying and selling a house and with the illnesses.   I am sooo looking forward to that!  So I guess I had more to talk about than I thought.  I will post again once we have moved and I will post pictures of the new house and of the finishing of the basement.  Until then HAPPY SPRING!!