BIG News!

Ok, since my parents are now on there way down here, I am FINALLY able to share some big news with you all!! No, we are not expecint a baby...we are done with all that...unless I ever convince John to adopt some day ;)

We are going to pack my parents back in the car as soon as the arrive here in a half hour or so and take them down to see this... OUR NEW HOUSE!! or at least in about a week and a half it will be ours. ;)

To start at the beginning of this story....
Last week, John put an offer in on the land we had been looking at. It was less than the asking price, but he sited a bunch of reasons why it was a less amount (ie. the cost it would take to repair the pond, the fact that only about half the 10 acres was usuable, the fact that the road of the little subdivision actuallly ran through the property...etc). The guys said he was not going to negotiate and the price was as he stated. So, John decided to look at foreclosures in the area. He came across two homes in the same town as the land that the bank had foreclosed on the builder. So last Sunday before evening service we ran there to look at them real quick. They were both VERY nice HUGE all brick homes. And they were asking a good amount less than they were worth. And a bonus, they each sat on 1/2 ac lots (double the size of our current lot where our house is). So we went home and talked about it and went back Monday evening to measure some things to see if either of them would work for us. By this time we had really started liking the above pictured one, but were informed there was an offer in on it. We went home again and talked and John called the Realtor back and said we would like to put a back-up offer in. Long story short (and BIG negotiating between the Realtor & John - glad I wasn't there for that I hate arguing ;)), we found out yesterday afternoon that our offer was accepted!!! With it being a foreclosure we were able to get it for WAY less than it is worth. And...we close the Wednesday before Thanksgiving...so a week and a half!! MAN are we going to be BUSY!! lol We will need to get everything packed up and moved...then we have a few more things we need to finish doing at our current house so we can get it up on the market. It has been pretty CRAZY around here to say the least. ;) There are also a few things we need to have finished on our new house...the builder didn't complete the closets (which is fine by us b/c now we can do them how we want), the deck was never sealed, plus the back patio was never poured (there is just gravel down right now). Not major things, but still a little work. :)