mark's first birthday

So this post is really late but I had to put it on the blog! Mark turned one while we were in Edmond so we were able to have most of our family at the party! That was exciting! He loved his chocolate boot shaped cake to fit a "Wild One Western" theme!

wanna see pics of the new house?

We are getting more and more excited! The main topic of conversation between Neil and I is the new house. What furniture is going where, who gets what room, was there a _____ in the _____ room?-I can't remember, can we get a new ____?, I saw this fabric for the curtains. . . I am probably driving him crazy trying to plan things out in intricate detail before we even move in! If we aren't talking new house we are talking about our current house: packing up all of our stuff and a few house repairs for the buyers! It is kind of sad that these things are all we talk about! We have called the babysitter for Friday, so maybe we can take a step back and talk about something else while on our date. So! On with the pictures! This house is still being ocupied and really does not belong to us yet, so I am not sure we can really post these pics legally, but the likelyhood of the owners knowing about my little blog is slim to none so they will probably never know they were invaded! Yikes, I hope! They did have it listed on the MLS on the internet with pictures so this is not too different! We will not have nearly as much furniture to fill it yet, and none of our current decor matches this house, so do not expect it to look this nice when you see it after we move in!

formal living and dining

informal dining and den

master bedroom and one of the kid's rooms

My two favorite features: the whirlpool tub in the master bath and the sink in the laundry room which is in the house! Every time I have to take the laundry into the garage/basement I think, "Soon, very soon! Never again, very soon!"

and finally the room that we are having the most trouble with its new decor options! Keep the pink? We have absolutely no bedding that goes with pink stripes! The light colored stripes are even hand textured/painted. I would hate to paint over it because I know how long it must have taken to do it! I am really not this girly, but I may try to embrace it!

house hunt continued, probably over!

Well if you have not heard, the first house we put a bid on did not come through! So we said good bye to the fort and great backyard and kept looking. We found another one we liked and placed a bid on that one too, but we did not let ourselves get too excited about it. Tonight after a few bids and responses we finally came to the final deal and will probably have a house to live in in OK! This is a good thing! We are still being cautious due to the fact that we need to do some talking with our banker to solidify loan numbers! The only down side is that we are loosing our house in AL on May 5th and can't move into the house in OK until May23ish so we will be homelss for a few weeks! Mitchell has been sick with a fever and a rash and a sore neck and dry heaves for 6 days! It has been a really long week. We are celebrating Mark's 1st birthday tomorrow! We had it scheduled at a park and it snowed last night so we had do do some last minute re-planning! OH- it has been a very interesting month!

house update

Well if you haven't heard, we have a contract working on our house in Alabama! We are very excited that things moved so quickly and we were able to search here and not have our hands tied if we found something we really loved! IF we found something! The house search process was harder than we thought! We looked for two weeks and had some pretty heated discussions about which house would be right for us! Finally today we decded on our new house and the negotiations will be starting this evening and tomorrow! The house is a really cute two story with an excellent patio and backyard that backs up to a creek and already has a treehouse for the boys! It will be a great home for us! Pray for quick and profitable negotiations (both for us and the sellers)! We are in OK and having to borrow computer and internet service so there will be few new posts this month!