Home for Sale

Are we Crazy or what? We did it. Our home is officially for sale. We signed all of the papers yesterday. This has all happened so fast that it doesn't seem real yet. Now I am just waiting for the herds of people who are fighting over buying it! Wishful thinking? I am a little worried about my sanity, Hayden's childhood memories of me, and I hope that Mike will still want to be married to me, because I am a little OCD when it comes to having our house clean for showing. I mostly have a clean house, but now it is spotless. Spotless takes a lot of work with an 18 month old and a Mikey around. My mom and I painted my yellow family room. It was kind of sad to see it go. Can I just say that I loathe rounded corners, for painting that is. My house is so open that when it comes to painting there is never an ending spot, so you have to stop with some weird line on the round. My mom and got a good laugh, a lot of sighs and I said many times in frustration, "I know it looks bad, but I just don't care at this point." We also have come to a mutual agreement on the lot that we want to buy, so if everything goes well we will hopefully be building a new home soon! The only thing I am not looking forward to is apartment living, well, I guess there isn't just one thing, storing all of our life collections, and moving things around a gillion times do not sound fun either. This is a fun adventure though and we are excited.

Molly

Today was a sad day. Poor little Molly was at least 17 years old, and was not doing very well, so we had to put her to sleep. She was such a good dog and we all loved her very much. She was a little turkey though, always trying to get out and wander around! I have very vivid childhood memories of chasing Molly around the neighborhood, or looking for her. She liked the Smart's dog, Stewy, so we always looked there first! I also remember that she would always sleep with me in bed, under the covers, way down at the bottom of the bed. It was fun when she had her puppies too. I loved her very much and it was hard to see her go today, but I know that she is happier and that makes me happy. Love ya Molly.

More home info

Well, we met with the builder again and have found a plan that we really love. We have a building lot that we like too, so we are now in negotiations with the realters for the lot. So, we will see if they will take our offer and hold the lot for us while we try to sell our current home. That is the tough part, because it is not a sellers market right now. I guess if this is really where we are supposed to be we will sell our home. Everything has seemed to come together for us so far on this...so I guess we will see. Here is the link for the home we are thinking about building if anyone is interested. http://www.westminsterhomesidaho.com/gallery_of_homes/id-3

I can't sleep

The reason you ask? Mike and I are seriously contemplating putting our home up for sale to move closer to town and Mike's work. We have enjoyed our current home, but we have always wanted to be closer in, and feel that Mike will always be working at least close to downtown forever, so he is tired of the commute each day. I can't sleep and I have this on my mind practically every second of the day. I am awful like that because once I start thinking about something significant I can't stop! It is driving me crazy. I just want to make the best decision. Currently we are deciding if we want to build, or rather can afford to build something that we want, without me going back to work so we can live in a fancy house. We have found a lot that is a reasonable price and have met with a builder to see our options. The next dilemma is the selling our house part. Do we use a realtor or sell it ourselves? How much do we sell it for? Not too low, not too high..... so what is the right price???!!!! Then we have the half finished landscaping which we would have to do something with before we put it up for sale, but there is three feet of snow right now on it. So, here I am at 12:30 a.m. thinking about all of this again.... because I can't sleep!

My neglected child

Hayden immediately becomes neglected when I am on the computer or telephone. This morning he looked pretty pathetic as he clutched on to the chair with dear life and begged me to hold him. Poor little guy :)

Happy Birthday Mikey

Mike turned 31 years old on Friday. To celebrate, we dropped Hayden off at grandma and grandpa's (yeah), and Mike and I had a yummy dinner at Goodwood BBQ, one of Mike's fav restaurants. The dinner salads there are to die for, and they have good ribs too. Then we went to National Treasure 2. I have to say that Mike and I usually have completely opposite tastes in movies, but I actually liked this movie he picked. I saw the first one and I liked it, so I knew a little bit of what it was going to be like. The best part of the night came after the movie because I took Mike to Merrit's. Merrit's is the most awesome place ever. It is this little whole in the wall place that has the best scones in the world, which is why they say on their sign "home of the scones"...imagine that. The waitresses look like, well, waitresses you'd expect to see in a place like Merrit's, and there are weird people to look at- it is so cool. I used to go to Merrit's in high school with my friends, so it brought back memories because I haven't been there in probably 10 years. Look close at the picture because Mike is the cute little thing under the sign. Happy Birthday Wiener. I love you!!!

10, 9, 8.....Happy New Year!

This is what Mike and I look like when we stay up way past our bedtime for New Year's Eve! For Mike it was way past his... he is usually in bed by 9:00. We celebrated in Twin Falls with some friends, and had a great time.

At least Hayden looks cute!