The calm after the storm...

Yes it finally stormed here....not that we needed a storm, but we def. needed some rain. 

This is what's going on here on this Friday night...

Nate and Grey are outside doing this...and I just put Sailor down for the night...

We have been really busy around here....tomorrow is Sailor's party so I've been preparing for that and we've been looking at houses.

Yes, we have decided to hold off on building right now and in a matter of days we managed to sell our house and make offers on two different houses.  We do not want to miss out on these LOW interest rates and after discussing it with our parents we think it is the right decision to buy right now.  To say it's been crazy around here would def. be an understatement.  My mom declared us as homeless the other day because we sold our house and don't have one yet...that might be an issue-right?!  (i promise i will fill you in when all things settle)

I made a joke to Nate tonight and told him when this is all over I'm gonna miss the craziness between working with our lawyer for our house and our realtor(by the way i love our realtor) -I feel like a real business woman -ha!  and I like it!  But, if things go through I have a feeling the 'house' CRAZINESS is just getting started...

A glimpse of our day today - 7am off to the Y......10am house showing -so wake Sailie up and get all of us ready...then I had to leave for a dr. appt which took forever....come back to discuss things with Nate and we decide to make an offer......my mom comes to watch the kids.......and I quickly text our realtor and within minutes we are at the bank for a preapproval and then back to the realtors office to sign off on all the paperwork.......by this time it's already 4:30....then head over to get the snow cone machine (for sailor's party) because we have to pick it up by 5...then in between rush to CVS to drop my script off so it's ready tomorrow because the pharmacy closes at 5.....get home and order some pizza....eat that pizza....give Sailor a bath....and Nate takes Grey outside to play for a bit....so now i have time to calm down and sit at my computer:)

Our week has been a rollercoaster but that's good.  You just gotta get the ball rolling at times.

The Scoop on our lot

Nate's parents sit on about 7 acres of wooded land.  With that being said, they are selling us 1 acre and we are going to build a house.  There has been a lot of paperwork because it is a little bit of a different situation.  Nate's parents are considered 'county' but we are trying to 'tie' into the city so that we don't have to have a septic tank and such.  It will just be easier.  However, it is taking a little longer than we had hoped for all of these 'things' to get approved.  Our house papers are now waiting to be approved by the zoning board...  We had to have our land surveyed and Nate drew out the acre (the shape and what we want it to look like and cut off points and such) that we wanted and Dave turned them in for us.  Nate attended the city meeting a few weeks ago where it was sent to the zoning board.  So, we are patiently waiting to hear back so that we can get things started.

We are currently looking at various house plans but are having a hard time narrowing it down.  We know we want a wide open floor plan with the master bedroom on the main level and the other bedrooms upstairs.  So, we have tons of magazines laying around here and Nate has been looking online a lot for house plans as well.  There are so many cool ideas, which make it even harder.

In the meantime, Nate has been busy cutting down trees and burning leaves on our 'property' (as Nate refers to it)  If you look to the right where my car is parked - that will be the beginning of our driveway.

This is what our lot looks like now.

 This is the road up to our house.  I say up because our house will sit on top of the hill.

 This is what we will see out the back of our house:)

 Tootie says...'yeah I think I could live here'

 We all wear hats and hoods right now because I'm paranoid about ticks...they are so bad this year.

and this little guy LOVES going into the woods....we have explained to Grey that we are trying to clear the land a little bit because this is where our new house will be and he gets really excited

and if you look closely through the woods there and over the creek are Nate's parents.  Can you see that garage through the woods and there is a vehicle parked there?  There are about 2 acres that will sit between us + all the woods.  I told Deb the only time she will be able to see our house is in the WINTER -haha!  we joke about it;)

 Kissing on his sister in between rakin' leaves;)

and no matter what Grey is always prepared

kisses for my girl...

 This is the road to our house.  I took a picture of it because I LOVE IT!  It's one of my favorite things about our house.  The drive up to it.  It's so pretty.  It's a big, wide, long road that dips in the middle and then when you get to the top - it will be us!

(do you like my house drawing? ;) - just to give you an idea of where we will be...

right there where the road ends will be the start of our driveway...

So that's what we know as of now... 

and in other news...sister is sporting some Cons now too;)