Closing!!

We are finally closing tomorrow at 1pm! at no later than 2:30 we should have keys in hand to out new home! I AM SOOOOO GLAD THIS IS OVER!! Now to move onto painting and fixing things. I know this sounds silly but I am looking forward to having breakfast on our new back porch with my husband and son. OUR house, our rules !!

Sold!!!!!

We are finally ready to close. We close 9/16/11 at 3pm. I am very excited!! I want to start painting Fridy night to get it done and over with but Robert says no, he just wants to change the door locks first thing after we close. I say we celebrate and work. One of our good friends Dave is coming up Thursday so I guess he will be the first one to see our new house after we close. Our new home, not rented but ours!

Loan was approved

FINALLY!!!! Our loan was approved today. Now I feel much better about packing and getting things ready to move. We have gotten a lot done but still a lot to do on the new house as well as packing this one. We bought Robert a new saw this weekend at Sears, I have a feeling he will be using it quite a bit. Now to line up the contractor and to move forward. Closing goal is Sept. 19th but Robert wants to push it out to the 22nd or the 23rd. I just want to get it over with.

Moving forward

WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!! now to move to new chores! We are suppose to close by October 5th but hopefully before the end of September, that way we can work on getting the repairs and painting done before we move in and the house that we are in now cleaned by the end of October. We are thinking the repairs won't take but a week, I am thinking they won't take that long and that will give us 3 weeks to clean all the furniture and get moved in, lets keep our fingers crossed. I am very excited! Our new home is going to be wonderful!

House buying 101

Okay so I didn't know much about buying a house! BUT now I am close to being able to pull my hair out!! I have learned so much over the past two weeks! I don't know if Robert let me do most of the research or if he just didn't have the time but I am very grateful! I also hope I took some of the pressure off of him, I know everything has been hectic but I have kinda enjoyed doing it. I feel like an adult making decisions not just someone that really doesn't have a say in anything like other women may go through. If we get this house I can say and feel like I actually helped on this one and it is truly ours not just Robert's because we have done this together. The last house was all Robert because I didn't have a clue as to where to even start. I think this will truly be a home....Well we counter offered last night so we should hear something today so let's see how it goes.....More later on the house.....

I want off the speedway

one of my favorite pictures........my baby's hands......Soooooo sweet!!


We have been very busy!!! Besides racing and traveling and Scout camp at Camp Daniel Boone and volunteering at our local bike race, we have been trying to look for a house. We have another big race weekend this weekend with Oram near by and a house full of people staying with us. The house hunt has been a challenge to say the least, either the house is on the road or you can spit on the house beside you or it's on a cliff, good grief can we please catch a break!! Anyway we will find our new pad it's just going to take time.Robert is doing good , grouchy as ever and Shawn is growing like a weed. Soon Shawn will be taller than me, I dread that. Well I  guess I will be off to Wally world this weekend to get school supplies together as school starts August 25th, I need to buy Shawn some new pants and some new shirts as well as go through his closet and get rid of the clothes he doesn't wear or is to big for, lookout Goodwill here we come!!

Busy

Well we had new family pictures made which I think turned out great, Thanks to Paul Christopher! We have been racing, Trying to find a house to buy,working, and my car is in the shop because something is wrong with it. On top of Shawn graduating from 5th grade and getting ready to go into middle school. Shawn and his dad did the Virginia Creeper trail this weekend  with the Scouts, they ended up doing 32 miles the rest of the Scouts did 17. Robert is doing okay, he has a lot on his mind lately hopefully the 4th weekend we both can relax and escape reality for a couple of days. Shawn is sooooooooooo glad school is out! He is ready for summer and summer fun, Hopefully it will be a good summer for him.