Looks Like We Might Get it After All!

Looks like (if everything continues to go through) we might be able to close in about three weeks. There is A LOT more yard, but I don't have the good pictures loaded yet.

The living room isn't huge, but there are hardwood floors under the carpet!

Looking in from the front door into the hallway, and ending up in the bathroom. The carpet from the stairs will be promptly removed!

The kitchen needs some love, but it's not horrible as it is. One of the first things that will be added is a dishwasher!

Inspection Woes

The house passed the inspection with flying colors.

Until she went under the house.

Disaster.

Not-passing-inspection disaster.


Still in 'negotiations' with the seller. Basically, we are waiting to see what she is willing to fix. As it is right now it won't qualify for financing. If she wants to sell the house you would think that it would be in her best interest to fix at least enough to have it pass inspection and qualify.

I am waiting to post pictures of the house until we find out if we will be able to finance it. No sense showing you a house that we won't be living in. *sigh*

House House House!

WE GOT A HOUSE!!!

Now we just have to pass inspection, appraisal, and financing has to go through. :) If all goes well we will be closing at the end of November and be able to celebrate Christmas in our new house. It is a 1953 Cape Cod and has original hard wood floors throughout. We are so excited! We have to move back into town, which we are sad about, but being so close to everything and everyone will be nice. I'll keep you posted on the progress. Inspection is on Monday and I will try to take pictures so you can see more than a microscopic clip!

First Field Trip

We took our first field trip this week and it was so much fun. We drove down to the coast and a friend-of-a-friend was sweet enough to open up their dairy to us and gave us the grand tour. We got to see everything from calves that had been born that day, all the way on up to the mama cows.
This is a Jersey cow. They have a higher fat content to their milk...believe it or not, this is a good thing!

These are Holstein cows, they produce much more milk than the Jerseys, but have lower fat content. (See this mama learned a lot too!)


They have everything so clean and state of the art. They track which cow gave which milk, and what the quality of everything is. We got to see what they fed the cows, where they went to spend the last two months before they "freshened" (had their babies) and where they labored. Those poor mamas looked so uncomfortable! Wouldn't you be?


After the dairy we went to to the cheese factory to see where their milk was delivered and watch it being turned into cheese. At this point the boys were pretty spent so we didn't stay very long. I did, however, get my white licorice ice cream!!!

It was just a great trip and I think it was a huge success! Plus we were able to do it all with some great friends that we haven't seen in way too long.

Still Here (again)

Still here.

Still house hunting.

Homeschooling.

Hanging in there.

Will post soon!

Family Fourth Fun, Pt.1

Just some of my family that we celebrated the Fourth of July with. We had so much fun being together we didn't even mind the weather. Actually there were some of us who preferred it that way!


My youngest sister, C, with my step-dad in the background and the ever present camera in action!


My other little sister, W, who leaves us for college in the fall! So very proud of her!


My youngest, yet tallest brother, J, and my smallest boy.


My Man, totally in his element. He grew up at the beach and it is such a part of who he is. He misses it every day.


My boys, how I love them!

Whole Lotta Nothin'

Gosh, has it been almost a month since my last post!?! I can not believe how fast the time has gone by. We have been really busy as a family, but other than a very fun trip to my aunts house at the beach there has not been anything really exciting sine I last wrote. Unfortunately I have filled my computer up with tons of photos and it won't hold more right now. When I get that situation figured out I will post some pictures of our fun filled Forth of July trip.

As far as the house hunt goes I think we may have found one. Not the one from the last post though. Out of 10 offers ours was second best. So obviously God didn't intend that one for us. I'll try to do a better job of updating this and fill everyone in on the current house that we are looking into.

So, once again this is a no picture post. Hope to remedy that very soon though!