I've been diagnosed with...

New homeowner ADD

Seriously. I have so many projects for the house that I have bought stuff for.

For the past two months, I have ordered stuff for the house. Then, I've bought stuff almost daily the past week.

Plus, I'm still not done unpacking (movers came Friday), and cleaning...

I'm drowning. I don't know where to start.

When I do start somewhere, I get bored and move to another project.

Sigh...

I'll dig myself out this whole soon and be back with updates soon!

Happy Birthday To Me!

Yesterday, April 19, I turned 29 years old.

Yesterday, April 19, I also became a homeowner!

Also, while doing the final walkthrough of the house, before heading to closing, I got a phone call that my stuff had made it to Hood and will be delivered on Friday.

Best.Birthday.Ever.

There was even cake.

As of Friday, I will officially be living in my house.

That I own.

This process has been long. It's been stressful. And I'm exhausted.

I still have a long road ahead of me in getting the house to my level. Like I have mentioned before, it needs a lot of work.

Mostly repair work and gallons of paint.

I am so happy to have the house buying behind me and I really look forward to the work that is going to go into it.

I just need my husband home and thankfully, we only have about 2 weeks before he gets here.

I won't be on much through the week, if even at all. I leave Thursday to go to the house to start getting it ready for stuff to come Friday and my internet won't be turned on until that Monday!

But I get TV on Saturday!

It's all coming together.

Hooray!

They grow so fast...

Before you get to the photo:

Yes, I know the photo to the right is dated wrong.
    A) It should read 2013, not 2012.
    B) No, we're not time travelers. My computer is still set to Germany time so when I went to put the date, I referred to that, it was already tomorrow in Gemany.

Yes, I could fix it but I had already gotten out of my program, my computer was being wonky, and I didn't feel like fixing it.

Anyway.

To the photo.

The photo to the left is Hayley helping her Papa with dishes when we came out to visit last summer. She looks so tiny compared to the photo on the right, a photo taken today while helping her Papa vacuum seal some catfish for a fish fry later in May. Her hair has grown like crazy BUT, at least still she hates wearing clothes :)

My baby girl is growing up way too fast.

Still Here...

Still homeless.

We're still moving forward with the house that I posted about in this post but the process is just never ending.

We submitted our offer on March 10 and it was accepted March 11.

One month ago exactly.

There was some back and forth and ammended offers due to repair work so the final offer wasn't finished until about two weeks ago.

The realtor originally wanted to close Monday but the appraisal was taking longer than we hoped.

So then she wanted to close on the 19th which was perfect for me, it's my birthday. Nothing like going 6 figures in debt on your birthday, am I right?

Well now, the seller doesn't want to close until all of the repair work is finished which, in a normal situation would be ok.

BUT, I have to go in and fix some things, it needs quite a bit of repair work and gallons upon gallons of paint.

And I wanted it all to be done before my stuff got here.

So now, our new closing date is the 22nd and my stuff is supposed to be here by the 25th. Yes, the military will store it for up to 90 days but I don't want to take the chance of anything happening to it. The least amount of time it's in their possession, the better. They've already had it for over a month.

Once we close, get the house repaired and painted, I will have about a week to get the movers out and unpack before Mat gets here.

Sigh.

I wanted it all to be done before he came home so he could actually enjoy spending leave with his family after being separated for almost 3 months but it looks like he's actually going to have to do some work.

That's where we are now. Still waiting.

Story of my life.

The New House...

I am pleased to introduce to you:

Our new house:



Front

Living room looking into dining/kithen



Looking down onto the living room



Living room

Downstairs half bathroom

Master bedroom



Master bathroom



Master bathroom



Master closet

Twins room



Loft



As everyone always says, pictures don't do it justice. In this case, the pictures pretty much show you a lot better than what the house looks like. In perfect condition, the house would have sold for almost $20,000 more than what we offered so I can't complain. Mat and I don't mind a fixer upper at all. I'm actually looking forward to fixing it up and making it home.

We really got lucky. We wanted either a 4 bedroom house or a 3 bedroom with loft or extra room. This house is 4 bedrooms with loft and almost 2,000sqft. We really couldn't say no. It offered us the room we needed plus extra. We knew to get what we wanted in our price range, we would have to go the handyman special route.

The process has been long but well worth it. During our inspection, the inspector noted some foundation issues. It took a week and a half to get a foundation guy out to check it out. The seller is going to pay to fix the minor foundation issues and has accepted our offer.

Finally! The negotiating and wondering and waiting is over. It has been killing me to not be able to shop every time I go into a store. Every time I thought of buying something, I had to remind myself that the ammended offer hadn't been accepted yet and to slow down.

However.

Now.

It's on.

Anything is fair game :)

So... In my last post, I mentioned that we found a house.

Well... We did...

We still have...

But during the inspection, the inspector noted that it could have foundation issues.

We brought this up to the seller and we both agreed to have someone come out and look at the foundation to see if it needs repaired.

If there is damage and the seller won't agree to fix it, we walk. I would hate to walk from this house but I can't afford the cost of fixing the foundation on top of what we are spending on the house (we went $10,000 over our original tip top budget, about $15,000 over our comfort zone budget. Don't judge, you should see the crap that was in our actual budget. Yikes!)

So... I don't want to post pictures yet... Just in case.

Instead, enjoy these photos of my two cuties getting a lesson in outdoor education.

PS, this photo was taken on the same day it snowed a ton in Germany. I'd rather be here than there! :)

Life...

Where to begin?

Life has been great! The twins, Harley and I made it to the United States without a hiccup and with most of our sanity still in tact. They all did fabulous.

We've adjusted to the time change (which was actually killer the first few days, mostly for me, but the twins were getting about 3-4 less hours of sleep a night than they were used to plus they weren't getting a nap because we were constantly going which made it hard.

We spent a few days hanging in Oklahoma with my in-laws and then headed to Texas, which is where we've been ever since!

We've spent the past almost two weeks going back and forth from my parents house to Fort Hood house hunting.

I almost gave up on house hunting within the first day. Everything in our price range was just too small, it was smaller than what we were living in in Germany and the point of buying a house was to have a bigger one.

We decided to raise our budget $10,000 and the same time we decided to do that, a seller decided to drop their house $18,000 and it fit right into our price range. We put an offer in this past Sunday evening and by 9:30 Monday morning, the offer was accepted.

Inspection is scheduled for tomorrow :)

Until I get settled, posts will be here and there, not because I'm busy but because my parents internet sucks. I barely get anything to load and if you're reading this, congrats! The post actually posted.

Once we get settled, I will totally share all of the awesomeness that has been going on, but for now, I will try to leave you with photos of our house.

It's 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath and almost 2,000sqft of pure potential.


Yea... It's not working!

So... You'll have to wait :)

There are going to be some changes coming to the blog and I'm excited to share life in Texas with you. We're on a new chapter and it's one I'm really excited for it. We're going to be homeowners, we're back home and life is good.

Please be patient, I hope to be in the house around the end of April, I will try to pop by and update you but the keyword is try :)