Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Our House is a Very Very Very Fine House!

It's the moment you all have been waiting for........ the unveiling of our house! Ok so maybe we are the only ones who are super excited for this stage in our life. It all started when a few people asked us why we don't buy a house. That started our wheels turning so we met with a good friend of ours who happens to be a realtor. When we walked in to his office we honestly thought we would turn around and walk out 5 minutes later because he would tell us we just weren't ready yet. However, he told us the opposite. He told us that we would be stupid not to buy right now, so we started looking at homes. After a few weeks of looking, we had scheduled with our realtor to see 10 homes all in about 3 hours. Our realtor, Chase, had everything mapped out and was on it, until the last house. He got lost and we had to turn around a few times. We then pulled up outside a model home that had just been finished. After scaring the cleaning ladies who were there we were able to look through the house. We fell in love with this house and decided it was the one! So we called the supposed seller. He told us that the one we were in was sold, but there was another one just like it going up around the corner. So we told Chase to put in an offer on it. Later that night he called us and told us that we were in the wrong place and we were at a completely different home than the one that was on his sheet. To make a long story a bit shorter we ended up finding the seller for our house and put in an offer which obviously was accepted and the process was started. We got to pick out our countertops and flooring which was so fun and hard. We were all set up to close on time when Chase called us 2 days before we were supposed to close saying that he couldn't get ahold of our loan officer. Zach and I went to his office only to find out that he went to Mexico on vacation and wouldn't be back for a week. WHAT?! He also screwed up on our paperwork so we got a phone call saying that we didn't qualify so we had been denied. We also got told by our builder that if we didn't close a week after we were supposed to we would be fined. All this happened 2 days before we were supposed to close. Oh ya, and we were headed to Vegas for Zach's work conference 2 days after we were supposed to close. We were livid! We had kept diligently checking on our loan and making sure everything was ok, then this! Finally they got everything worked out, but we still closed almost a month after we were supposed to and luckily we didn't have to pay fines to the builder. We got the keys on a Friday and immediately started moving in! We are so happy here! We LOVE our home! We still have a bit of unpacking and organizing to do, but we are almost there.




This was a few weeks after we found our house. When we found it they only had the foundation poured and a few of the frames up.


This was the next week. We have windows!

And we have a sweet tub in the master bathroom!




The family room

The kitchen

The front room



Jaxtons room

Sky's room

Our room

Our room again





It's done!!

Family room

My favorite thing in the house....my kitchen!!! Isn't it gorgeous?!



We have fields behind us so it's so open which I love!

The view from the play room

Starting to paint Jaxtons room


It took FOR-EV-ER!!! 12 hours after we started we finished. It took so long!

Come on in!!




The unveiling



Jax was such a good helper! He loved pulling off the tape. 

Right now we are working on Skyli's room and I'm super excited to reveal it, but you will have to wait! There are a few rooms and things that I don't have a picture of yet, so I will work on another post with all of that another day!   

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Blog Fail

Hi everyone! I am finally back and ready to blog again! I know, I know, shame on me! It's been a long long time since I last updated and we have a lot of news! Be prepared for a bunch of blog posts in the next few days! First up, hopefully coming to the blog this afternoon, our new house! I fill you in on the details in the next post. Stay tuned!

Monday, November 12, 2012

8 Months!


My baby turned 8 months old on November 4. Holy Moly where did the time go?! He is just getting way too big way, way too fast! Sometimes I wish I could pause life for awhile because I know that one day I will miss this time with my kids so much! I love being a mommy! Anyway, here's a list of things that Jax does now.
- Crawls on his hands and knees.....EVERYWHERE!!!
- Climbs the stairs
- Pulls himself up on EVERYTHING, including his sister! 
- Attacks his sister and gives her kisses
- Follows his sister everywhere
- Walks along things
- This last week he has started standing up without hanging on to anything
- Walks around pushing a walker thing 
- LOVES food and eats everything even though he still doesn't have any teeth
- Picks up and eats everything on the floor (even carpet fibers)
- Loves to climb
- Loves to get into trouble
- Loves stuffed animals
- Loves reading books with me
- Hates sleeping
- Says mama and dada and ga ga goo goo and a bunch of other baby babble 

He is such a sweet little guy! I love playing with him! He is extremely active and doesn't really like to be held much, which makes church fun..... not! The only time he his unhappy is when he's hungry. I love my little boy so much!  

A Day at Hee Haws!

Last Saturday we had  family day at Hee Haws. Skyli went there a few weeks back with her class for a field trip and she got a free admission coupon to go back. On a fall Saturday there's nothing better to do than hit up a farm and corn maze with the fam! It was such a fun day! It was the last Saturday that they were open for the year so there weren't very many people there. We pretty much had the place to our selves. We did the hay ride, corn maze, slide, petting zoo, horse ride, sand box and a few other things they had there. It was a blast! I love my family and spending time with them is the best! Who could blame me? They are pretty amazing! 




Look at this cute face!!! It's no wonder I'm wrapped around that chubby finger! 


He tried to attack the camera. 




This boy loves his daddy! I'm so happy I caught this moment!  

They are amazing! I love them! 

















I love my family! They are the greatest! I'm so thankful for my husband and kids! I would be nothing without them! Family fun days are the BEST!