Man oh Man!

It has been such a long time since my last blog. A lot of stuff is going on. It went from prepping for Brian's deployment, to trying to get Rian to start walking before he leaves and then.............Brian leaving.

It has been a week and this week has gone by pretty fast, but I know that is because he is still here in the USA. Once he gets in country....now that will be a whole nother story.

Rian is growing like a weed and it is so hard to believe that she is 11 months old. I am planning a cute little party for her. Nothing big or over the top. Just a simple little ladybug party.

With me saying that the week has gone by pretty fast. Just last night I was on my way home from church and I was listening to The Message on Sirius Radio, and one of my favorite songs by Mark Schultz (Walking her Home) was on and I just finally had a good long cry on the drive home. It was just the song that made me cry. I felt totally fine after the cry.

Been here a whole month!

WOW!! We have been in the house for over a month and it Feels so good!! No worrying about the neighbors waking Rian up because of all of their crap. It feels good to be in a bright home. It just seemed like a dark dungeon in the apartment. We made our first mortgage payment and we also had to pay the last part of the rent of the apartment. BOY am I glad to be done with them. They were going to be raising the rent on all of the apartments and our discount with the military discount was still going to be about 900 a month. That's only a 200 dollar difference between the apartment and the house and the house is TWICE the size of the apartment.

We Love our new home and can't wait have our little Rian grow up in the home.

Painting is DONE!

The painting has been completed in the house. It looks beautiful!! and now we can start moving stuff in!!! I am so happy with the colors that we went with and at the last minute we did a quick change, instead of having Misty Surf in our family room we decided to go with that in our bedroom and we used Winter Flannel in the family room. The formal living and dining room have an awesome color called London Coach. It's like a brown/mauve color. Our projected time to be in the house is May 15th, but we will still have our apartment until June 21st. So...we will take our sweet time with getting all of the not so important stuff out of the house.

Totally excited!

Tomorrow we officially close on our new home!!! It has been such a tiring search. We found a lot of houses that we just fell in love with and just wanted "THAT" house. So many that we were outbid on and some that were just not our type.

For the same amount of money of these short sales and Foreclosures, we have found an awesome home. That is brand NEW!!!

We get our keys tomorrow and we are going to start moving things in tomorrow!!

Can't wait....I hope that I will be able to sleep.

It's almost time!!

We gave the apartment complex our notice that we are not renewing our lease and that we will be leaving soon!! They gave us 3 options.... 1. To pay 2 months of rent 2. To pay rent on the apartment until it is rented and 3 is to just pay the prorated amount from June 1st until June 21st. Which will run us about 500.00. So, needless to say we are going to go with the prorated amount. We are just so ready to get out of this apartment and be in our own home!! Can't wait for Tuesday to get here.

Walk through today!!

Today was our walk through of the house....One more step and we are going to be HOME OWNERS!!! We are so excited and can not wait for TUESDAY aka CLOSING TIME!!! to get here. Well....There were only a few minor things that we are wanting to be repaired and Brian says that they are mainly in the bedroom closets.

We have decided that we are going to take our sweet time moving from the apartment into the house, not because there is anything is wrong with the house, but because we are going to have to pay May's rent. So.....why not take our time?

Moving here we come!!!

What else could happen?

On Saturday we had the whole day planned. My mom was going to come over and keep Rian while Brian and I were going to catch a movie and have a nice sushi dinner. We decided that we would go over and take a look inside the house and to show Mom and Adra the house too. So...we all load up into our Vue and head over. We get there and look around and fall in love with the house. We get into the car to take the keys back to the office and the car is running but so hard to turn. We make it to the intersection of Noroad and Old Middleburg and the car really not wanting to go. I told Brian to pull over and that we needed to call Geico to get a tow. Only 2 people are able to be in the tow truck, so we had to call a cab. The cab gets there and they only send a car. The cabbie has his wife or girlfriend in the car with him, so that meant that we could not put Rian's carseat in the car. We finally make it to the house and I decided that we need to get a rental car. We go to pick the car up at the airport, we get our rental and the seat will not go back, so that means we have to head back into the airport. We get our next one and head on.

I have to say that it was just a tiring day and we were thinking. What else could happen?