Today is the Day!

We get the keys tonight! I'm SOO excited! The unfortunate thing is that we're in for a "colossal' storm this week, and I'm not confident the move will go smoothly. Oh well, I may be out there at 7:30 AM Friday morning shoveling snow while Adam's picking up the new mattress for our spare bedroom!

-- UPDATE--

We moved ALL of the stuff I had boxed up, plus the bicycles and Ares' birthday present last night. It only took 4 trips and 2 SUV's. It was a busy evening, thanks to Auntie Cindy for picking up Ares.

This is our first meal in the new house. 'Cheeseburger peeaaasse'.

Closing

Tonight we get to sign MANY papers. 5:30 the stuff to give our house away, and at 6:15 the fun stuff to get our new house. We get the keys in 4 days! Whoohooo!!! I am beyond excited, I'm now at the point (already!) where I can barely sleep at night. I'm really happy we have one last walk through on the house on Saturday afternoon. I really cannot wait to let Ares run around it and see his 'new house' for the first time. He's past the 'new shoes' phase (because he's had the shoes for 2 weeks now) and now he runs around our current house screaming 'new house! New house!'.

I'm also excited that we have a lot of people able to help us move, as well as now I can have my son's birthday party at OUR house! (Last year we had it at my parents' house). Thank goodness that's still a couple of months away, as I don't have TIME to plan that right now. At least I know it's going to be themed with some sort of vehicles, as the kid is OBSESSED with cars/trucks/trains/planes/helicopters etc.

I got about 3,000 kisses from Ares last night. It was amazing. It's funny how he only has a handful of matchbox cars in our house because all of his toy are packed away, yet he's been as playful and happy as EVER!

I had my PE or annual review yesterday. I had only been at the company since the end of April, but I was VERY happy with my review and my increase. It beats (by FAR) the last couple of years at Progressive. Thank goodness. Life is great, I can honestly say (aside from the couple of lbs I could stand to lose) that I wouldn't change a thing. =) (Well, OK, I do wish we had enough money to have a second child soon, but I can handle waiting a few additional years - it'll probably take me that long to convince Adam we need another- HA!).

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Cheese!

These past few months, he wants to see the picture as soon as we take it. Sometimes, he wants to see the picture before we even take it. That's why he was running around to the back of the camera. "I see - I see".

Wheee!

Ares will make a slide out of anything. This is our chair, a duffel bag full of Adam's LARP stuff, and a box. For the first few days, he'd only go down feet first, but today he decided to be more daring and went down head-first. He is his father's child.

Nothing new

Hi Grandma/Jim, I wish I had something new to post, but Adam has been sick for the past 9 or 10 days, Ares has been fighting off a cold (and a fever), the cold seems to be winning, although, the fever lasted only a couple of hours, and he's doing great there. My head feels like it's going to explode from sinus pressure, but I have been able to keep most of the sickness Adam has away. Haven't taken any new pics of Ares recently, but here's some pics from sunny FL. Adam was the only person older than 12 that went into the water. I just layed out at 9AM (about 78*) for a half hour to relax.

Thanks again for the letter, a proper thank you will come soon, once I can get my lovely family healthy and moving again. Love you! -- 11 days until we receive the keys, 15 until we move!!

A pic

Ares and "GG"Ares and 'Aunt' Kassi (my cousin)

Tug of War 2!

Ares is about a year older here, than he was the last time I posted his tug of war battle with Ballpark. This one was pretty tame, but they go under chairs, around boxes, over furniture... it's quite funny!

More pictures of the house

We're Moving!

... and fast! So I thought I posted earlier than this, I guess not. The sellers accepted our first offer on the house. What an incredible process. To sell a house, to view a house, and to buy a house all in 3 days has been pretty crazy. I have about 8" of paperwork stacked high, and trying to coordinate the move for us to be out in time for our buyer to get in, but not be homeless has been terrible.

Our house looks like a disaster zone, but we'll only have to deal with that for 2 more weeks. (We have a total of 24 days to get out). It's very exciting to move into a new house. I cannot believe how lucky we've been.

I'll post some new pictures.

Putting in a Bid

So we visited the house that I posted about earlier. I'm pretty sure that this is my DREAM house. Aside from the fact that we'll have to buy a microwave and a refrigerator, it's the perfect house. The walk in closet is the size of Ares bedroom, the two ovens are convection ovens, there's a nice sized pantry, the cabinets are even more beautiful that I though, an I LOVE the carpeting in the basement. Adam has a perfect place to build a bar in the basement and to top things off, it's not just a 3 car garage, it's a 3.5 car garage! WOW! The only bad thing is when you're in the back yard, it's a little loud because of the road and the back yard is a wind tunnel. I'm hoping once the two houses on either side are built, it will get better.

An offer will be put in today, I hope we have a new place soon. Here's some pics of the kitchen.

~~~ S O L D ~~~

Our house was sold last night! We are PSYCHED! We got a reasonable bid, countered with what we'd be comfortable 'giving it away' for, and she accepted our counter! Whoo Hooo!!! We must be out by 2/4, and we're going to Florida for 5 days (in 5 days)!! Yay for 2011. I found our house, I'm hoping we can go through it and put a bid on it soon.

It's quite a bit more expensive than I wanted to pay (payment is OK, but down payment will be VERY tight), but it is the most perfect house EVER. Double oven and gas stove for Adam, 3 car garage for Adam, tile floor and granite counter tops for Adam, beautiful patio, and already finished basement for Adam. You ask, what do I like? Walk in Closet for me, glamour bathroom, 5 bedrooms, an office, and a den - oh, and a pantry.

What don't I like? 1) the back of the house faces a road that isn't part of the development, it's not terribly busy, but it still has a road behind it. 2) No fireplace 3) the living room is tile, not carpet Update: At the time I thought this, but it isn't tile, it's carpet. 4) I have to paint the whole house because it's still the original builder white, and 5) I don't like the fact that I've fallen in love with this house and I haven't even walked through it yet. I hope it doesn't sell before we go through it!