we have found THE house....

alright it has been one hell of a week. that is really the only way to describe the utter craziness going on at my house. in a matter of two weeks everything that we dont absolutly have to have on a daily basis has been packed and placed in storage and might i add that two ppl sure can accumulate A LOT over the course of 8 years!!! so we put our house on the market last thursday 7/16 and as of the end of today we will have had 9 showings!!! wow!!!! we are totally excited about that. we went to see our realtor on monday and she suggested an open house this weekend so tomorrow...sunday we have our first open house and lets just pray that it is the last and that we get an offer....because we have found THE house. Teri warned us about that, she said..."so now what happens when you find the house and yours has not sold yet?" i told her that i was really not wanting to do a bridge loan but would consider it if it was something that we could not turn down. welp, it was just that. it is at 3214 Ridgecrest and it is BEAUTIFUL!!!! it has a pool, has been recently remodeled and has new hot water heater!!! there is more but too much to type, needless to say we are approved for a bridge loan but hope we dont have to use it. the ppl pushed back the closing date until 8-28 so we are hoping we can get our house sold. that gives us six weeks from yesterday. PLEASE say some prayers that this house sells so that we are not in that situation....although it was something that we could just NOT pass up. we are soooo excited!!! so very very excited!!! but this last week we did have to paint my NAVY living room....it is now...."tattered sail"....ugh i hate white, but as Teri keeps reminding me ...it is not your house anymore, it is the house you have for sale. so i just have to keep repeating that as we have been changing it from the house i have loved. i know the new one will be worth it in the end, but it is still a change. the only reason that we changed the navy anyway was b/c the first two ppl that saw it were like " well we love it but that den sure is dark...." my thinking was...hey its just paint and thats cheap, compared to the $700 water heater i just put in, but apparently that was not the general consensus, oh well it is now totally NEUTRAL...and all my family and i included still love that beautiful blue. i mean it gave the house character. oh well. say some prayers i will let everyone know as so as i hear something and can find my way to my computer!!!!

its on the market!!!! YIPEE!!!!

well as the title states ....today our house is offically on the market!!! YAY!!! now come on perspective buyers....BUY IT!!! =) i know ill be sad leaving this house....it was our first "home" ....the one we brought our children home to for the very first time, my two wiener dogs are buried in the back and we were much younger when we bit the bullet and bought...brian 19 and me 20...wow that seems ages ago!! but as our family is requiring more/different room it is time to move on and that is exciting. although might i add that we are having it painted on the outside and a new water heater put in before we go...oh and NEVER buy whirlpool...ill say that forever....grrrrrr.... but it will be nice for the new owners to have this stuff done. i wish i could take my trees...oh how ill miss those trees...and the yard out back. when we moved in it looked like a dust bowl out there with like one lone stick for a tree in the middle. but now it is covered in beautiful green grass and that little stick has grown quite a lot in the 7 1/2 years we have been here. i just hope and pray that the Lord sends us good ppl to own this little house and that they have as many good memories here as we did. Thank you Lord for a wonderful time here and i can for sure say that im leaving with more blessings than i had !!!!! =0)

It's Time

its time....well...its been time for awhile. time that is for a different house. this house has been a great one and served us well, and if it were set up differently ...perhaps would still work. but it is just NOT toddler friendly. it has a den and an living room and im sad to report that poor little lane's room is IN the living room since the 3rd bedroom is all the way across the house. which will not work for kaelynn either since she is only 2. so we have started the process of packing up everything that we dont need on a daily basis and off to storage it is going. we are talking to our realtor tomorrow to "get the ball rolling" so to speak...and im excited!! it will be so different this time when we buy as we have to consider a "family" and not just us and our dogs. and it is AWESOME to go into the home buying process with a leg up so to speak and by that i mean that we have equity!! yea!!! money in our house instead of none!!! oh that is such a blessing!!! we went looking today and actually found a really nice one with a pool...and it is plenty big!! like 2600 sq ft!!!! woof!!! but is has great trees and that is a big thing to us. as we will be giving up our 3 BEAUTIFUL live oaks!!!! oh i love those trees!!!! i wish i could take them with me. so please pray that God will lead us in the right direction as i know He will. =) i cant wait to see what lies on the horizon!!

gDiapers=GREAT!!

just an fyi for those of you out there that may think san angelo is no where near as eco friendly as some of the other towns in texas---our HEB has these diaper liners!! i was a first in shock...then ticked since i paid shipping for something i could have driven 5min to pick up, but who would have thought? certainly not me. anyway i got my little starter kit in the mail for these and i have to say...im in love. they fit lane so well, are so much better for poor, overworked mother earth and are sooo stinkin cute!!! im looking forward to buying more colors of the cloth outside and buying the cloth inserts to try....and im tellin everyone i see or know who has kids or is expecting...check these out mamas....you will save in the end!!

just also a quick note to thank our service men and women out there on this our nation's birthday, but might i also add thank you Brian!!! for working hard at keeping our city safe and by that keeping your family safe. by working all that overtime....i think police officers are overlooked sometimes which is sad since they are the first line of defense here at home. so thanks honey for the job you do it is very appreciated.

cloth diapers=eco friendly but will it be gesch friendly?

well its offical....im REALLY going green!! ive done the recycle cans and plastic and glass....i figure im bringing more ppl into this world i want it to be around for them. and now ive decided that we will be recycling paper too, but that's not it.....now after having a kid for 2 years ive decided to give cloth diaper a try. it cant hurt right? only there's a catch to the ones im trying...they are called gDiapers...and that little catch just happens to be that they have a cloth outside but a nice little flushable...that's right flushable...insert!!! yeehaw!!! i wish i would have known then what i know now. and the beauty of them is that they can also be converted to all cloth by buying the cloth inserts which would save even more money in the end. im also doing it since lane will still be in diapers for a while and i hope to have more children at some point so they will be used again. they have not come in yet so i will be sure to post my findings but i am excited!!! i will be helping the environment that much more!!