How do you know you're back home in Amaranth?

You're phone line doesn't work! That's just lovely. Anyway just wanted to let anyone know that might be trying to call. We're trying to get a hold of MTS to fix it now. :(

One of the worst weeks ever!

Yup, that pretty much describes our last week. So anyway, we put the offer in... that's where I left off. They had until the next day at noon to get back to us so we anxiously waited for the phone to ring that morning and got excited when it did around 10:30. It was our Realtor with news, but not quite what we were expecting... there was another offer on the house. OMGosh! Does that happen in small towns? Not usually so we're not sure what happened but non the less. We upped our offer a bit and had to fax some more papers back and forth. Just before noon the phone rang again and this time, she was telling us the offer was accepted. No counter or anything, simply accepted. Weird...so anway.. Since we wanted to do some home renos on this lower cost house the stress hit a new level. Because we wanted to take the mortgage out for more than the cost of the house to do the renos we had to get quotes for what it was going to cost. That meant getting in the flooring people, the cabinet people, the plumber, the electrician, and the carpenter. I know most of you are saying, "Why not do the work yourselves?" Frankly that is not an option. We have 120 days from the possetion date to get all the work completed so the mortgage people will give us the money. It's long and complicated and totally stress us out!!!! So we got all those nice and understanding people in there and told them what we wanted. They gave us all quotes and we forwared it on to our mortgage guy. The finacing for the cost of the house is pretty much done, we just now have to get confirmation on the extra stuff. Oh ya and since all the renos have to be paid by us first we had to go talk to the bank to! OMGosh it's been crazy.

So we're home now and feeling much better. There is still alot to do but at least we're not living at the hotel and trying to do things over the cell phone all the time. I was able to get some pics of the house, so when I upoad them I'll post them to show you all. :)

Waiting...

Well we put an offer in on a house this morning and we gave them until tomorrow at noon to let us know. So now we sit and wait...kill time...go shopping...spend money... blah blah blah. It's a decent house structure wise, with lots of room but we'll need to do some prettying up a bit. Some new cupboards in the kitchen, some paint, maybe a carpet here and there. Blue shag isn't back "in" yet is it? Anyway I shouldn't say to much unless it doesn't happen. If it doesn't... well we don't want to think about that yet. Tonight we had a nice supper at Joey's Only, then went and played at Ruckers. Yes, we're just like big kids but it was fun. We even won a little stuffed Elmo for my baby girl.

Alright gotta run, we're watching Click with Adam Sandler. :)

Buying a house is certainly stressfull.

Yes we're on our house hunting trip in the town we are soon going to be calling home. We looked at probably 10 different houses and only a few have jumped out at us. Unfortunatley there is something up with all of them. They are either to costly, to small, or to much in need of renos. I guess I kinda thought that the house meant for us would have this big sign saying "Here I am, I'm perfect for you!" and unfortunatley we didn't see any of those signs. So now we have to decide if we want to spend a higher amount or get something we need to put some work into, knowing we're not the fixer-upper kinda people. Some people would say we've been spoiled by previous houses we've rented and I'd have to agree. Bruno where are you????!!!!!

On a different note, I'm being featured at Elemental Scraps right now. They will be going through all the CT members so that's kinda cool. And we've also got a new look so check it out, black, white and red. I'm missing my scrapping. LOL

Oh yes and Scott thanks everyone for the Birthday wishes!

Alright gotta run, hopefully we'll have good news next time I update. :)