We were planning on living with my mom until mid-late November, but things are moving much faster on buying a home than we thought. Thanks to the Utah home run grant being brought back ($4000 on a new home purchase) and the first time home-buyer federal grant about to expire, it seems like everyone is going into overdrive and swiping all the good homes off the market! We found one we really really liked it but someone else took it away from us. NOT again! So we stepped it up and spent a few days just looking at houses. We found 2 that we really liked and put offers on both and ended up sticking with one of them. After the bank accepted our offer, we found out that the home is bank owned and sold as is. Meaning a lot of money out of pocket, including a possible AC unit, because for some reason, the finished house does not have one! We're still going to see if the bank will stop being super stingy and absorb the cost of one, but at least the home qualifies for the Utah home run grant, which will pay for whatever the bank does not. The growing cost of buying a new home is getting extremely frustrating but we are happy that we will finally own our own home! Our closing date as of now is Oct 20, which is a Monday, so we will probably just move in the following weekend while the kids are in St. George with Oma and Opa. Here are a few pics that I took off of utahrealestate.com: (the weeds and brush are all gone and the ground is ready for sod, and there's been a railing added to each side of the stairs. It is the only house on that side of the street, there are 2 directly across the street and the last time we went out to look at the house, it looked like they were finally getting ready to build more)
The beautiful kitchen:
the family room, kitchen and dining room, with the master bedroom directly behind the person taking the picture:
the master bedroom with walk-in closet and bathroom. TV will go right on the wall between the 2 doors. Nice view out of the window for now, until another house gets built:
Noah's room with a view of our neighbors. Bostyn's room pretty much looks the exact same:
master bath (other full bath not shown):
view off of the back patio:
We will keep you updated on the housing status as things move along!
Other news: Noah started preschool again this year, at the same school as last year. Work has picked up for me, as of Oct 8 I will be back to full time, woo hoo! School is put off for now as we focus on buying the house and moving yet again and we will see how it goes once we move into the house before I decide to go back to school or not.
OH and many of you know about Noah's ER visit, but a few weeks ago, we took Noah to the emergency room after he got the sharp end of a hammer in the eyebrow after he tried to bounce a basketball with the hammer. The doctor ended up super-gluing the cut after he cleaned it out, but he apparantly did not clean it out enough or disinfect it or whatever, because just a couple of days later, it was infected underneath the super glue and Noah's doctor had to use a needle to poke through the hard super glue as I held him down (kicking and screaming and still managing to twist underneath all of my body weight) so that the infection could drain. He's a trooper and even peeled off the super glue himself a few days after the infection fiasco, but now he has a lovely little scar on his forehead. I am determined to do what I can to get rid of it! According to his doctor, stitches would have been the best option to avoid the infection and scarring. Thanks Intermountain Medical Center emergency room doctor for trying to rush patients out of your hospital.
