The House

ALLLLright....

I have to admit something. I'm really truly embarrassed to show pictures of this house. Don't get me wrong, I'm ecstatic to have it, but quite frankly, it needs a LOT of work. I'm just worried no one will come and visit if they see the before pictures! It's a plain old 3 bed 2 bath ranch style house about a mile and a half from where we currently are. My favorite part of the house is that it's on a 1/4 acre, which probably doesn't seem that big, but it's huge for this area. We hope to take care of the kitchen, hardwood flooring and main bath prior to moving in (in May), along with a slew of smaller fix-ups, but the rest of it will have to slowly be done over the next year (or two). Anyway, here it is! I'll post more pictures as projects get completed.


I insisted on a picture in front of the house, even if it is cheesy. I mean you only buy your first house once right? I hope to get that brick arch thing taken out.....

Here's the kitchen upon moving in:

And here's the kitchen 3 hours later....


Here's Eva telling us all about what the backyard needs. :)


And finally...a picture for my dad. He wanted to see a picture of our oranges! There are two orange trees and a lemon tree in the front yard that have been sorely neglected, but produced some of the best tasting oranges I've ever had.

106.7

That was Eva's temperature tonight when we took her to pediatric urgent care. When the nurse told me how high her temperature was, I did what I do best....I started crying. We waited 2.5 hours in the lobby and within 2 minutes after taking her temperature people started rushing into the room to check her out, followed by hushed phone conversations just outside the door. Needless to say, I started FREAKING out. Thankfully it just ended up to be two nasty ear infections and pink eye. I don't think it's fair for kids to get sick.

Baking

I don't know why I always seem to think baking with Eva will be such a fun activity for the both of us. But inevitably I always try, and it usually is lots of fun and a huge mess!


At Tim and Megan's a few weeks ago, I was rolling out the pizza dough, when she popped up and wanted to help. It started out fairly well with just one little hand patting the dough......

Which rapidly progressed to both hands SQUEEZING the dough.


And finally...more eating of dough than anything else.

Yesterday we tried again with chocolate cookie dough. I caught myself several times saying..."don't eat the dough!" and then seconds later forgetting what I said and sampling it myself. :) Eva at the end of the cookie dough adventure. I'll bet I looked pretty similar.

By george, we got it!

Just wanted to share the good news: we found out over the weekend that we got the house! I guess it took so long to find out because there were several offers. They liked ours the best, but we were the only FHA offer. Apparently they can't sell houses that are missing bathroom floors and toilets to first time home buyers, so they had to find out how much they would have to pay to put those things in before they could accept our offer. Anyway, they accepted all of our terms and are going to put those things in for us. We can't wait to get in there and get to work!

Patience is a virtue...that I simply don't have.

We've been looking at houses recently and finally found one that we thought would work for us. We put in an offer last Tuesday and we STILL haven't heard anything. It's driving me nuts! Our real estate agent has been calling us every day since Thursday saying "they're telling me they'll have an answer for us TODAY", which certainly doesn't help my patience. And of course the longer I wait the more convinced I am that I really want this house. Oh yeah...and did I mention that someone else put in an offer the same day we did? So now I'm nervous in conjunction with being impatient, which has made me cranky and inattentive all week! (IF we end up getting this one, i'll post pictures....you'll all be laughing at the old fixer-upper that i had my little heart set on!) I have to keep reminding myself that if it's the right house it'll work out. It's just hard to wait.....

All about Eva

I like to check on Eva before I go to bed, and last night was no exception. I went in to check on her and...as usual...she was snoozing away peacefully.....completely and utterly BUTT NAKED! i had a hard time making it out of her room before i busted up laughing. i don't know if she was too hot or what, but i hope this isn't a trend. thankfully i was able to get a diaper on her without her waking up too much.

She has taken a liking to going through my jewelry (much to my chagrin) and managed to hook an earring over her ear. she kept walking around shaking her head and giggling about the earring swinging back and forth.

Her newest favorite thing is to get into her retired baby car seat, hook the chest strap by herself (don't try to help her...she'll bite your head off) cover up with her blanket, surround herself with her stuffed animals and look through a pile of her books. funny...that's one of my favorite things to do too....except for the furry friends and being strapped into a much too small seat. she can do this for a half hour at a time, which is really nice for me. the only drawback is she doesn't know how to undo the chest strap so i have to come in several times and unhook it for her so that we can repeat the whole process.

Eva Today