July 22, 14 (Tuesday) We had a showing today. July 23, 14 (Wednesday) We had another showing today. July 24, 14 (Thursday) We had 3 showings today. Hey at least we are having showings now! We got an offer on the house too! July 25, 14 (Friday) We are accepting…

July 15, 2014 We went and paid 1/3 down on our building! ($6,854) The total keeps changing a bit because we add windows or take off windows or rearrange things in our plans so this is the first big chunk of money we owe towards it. I’m so glad the Camaro…

July 8, 2014 We had the structural engineer appt today and it went great! He spent about 2 hours here, the majority of that time was spent drawing up our house and measuring EVERYTHING! The conclusion is that the house was possibly not built flat but there is no foundation…

June 30th Jared made some phone calls to get prices of things for the new place. He called the water company about a water meter and that is going to cost $2119. Good thing we are on this side of the road or it would be an additional $1100. He…

We worked our butts off getting our house ready to sell. We stayed up way too late, way too many nights. Our house went on the market around noon on Wednesday June 25th. About 30 minutes later we had a showing requested for 2:00 and another requested for 6:30. The…

Reflecting back on his first 12 months of life I’m just in awe of what a special baby we have. I’ll never forget my first thoughts when I saw him swim (yes, swim) into the world in that birth pool a year ago. My first thought was omg he’s a…

11 Months old! (as of May 23, 2013) 22 lbs 9 oz, 30″ Breastfeeding: You love your milk! You are now coming up to me and signing milk and once I confirm to you that I know you want milk you have no patience for me at all. Yes you whine…

I knew it wouldn’t be easy. Purging our stuff. I don’t know what it is that is so hard. I don’t even remember when I got those tiny scented high-liters but they are so cute… maybe I’ll give them to Jaidan to use. NO. Just donate them. He doesn’t even…

We are in the process of getting the house ready to sell! Jared wants to list it by the end of the month.   -Purge! Make piles of donate, sell, trash and let family look through: (Playroom, playroom closet, Nursery, nursery closet, bathroom, school room, living room, kitchen, laundry room,…

We just paid below the 100K mark on our house! We now owe 99,987! But wait! That’s not the big news! After seeing the new balance on the computer of our house payment I wanted to be excited but I just wasn’t. I wanted to be excited that we are…