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!

new floor

Neil requested that I share this with our blog friends! We just finished putting new flooring down in our kitchen. It is a peel and stick vinyl tile that looks like stone tile. I was very skeptical of putting huge stickers on our floor. Mostly I did not care because we are putting the house on the market a week from today so, if we messed it up or did not like it, it would only be our floor for a few more months! It actually looks pretty good! Now we wonder why we didn't do it earlier so we could enjoy it longer! Neil is so proud and protective of it that he picks up any speck he sees on the floor. Maybe it is good we will only have it for a short time, he would probably drive me crazy!

We started the process on Sunday night at 10:00 pm after the babies were sleeping! I thought, "You crazy man, what are you getting us into?" We ran out of tiles at about 1:00 am so we were able to get some sleep. Tuesday night I finished up the wall edging by myself while Neil was working, then on Wednesday night we stayed up together and finished the pantry floor and under the refrigerator! It was actually kind of fun working together on a home project. We have not done any improvement projects together since we finished up the "moving- in" updates when we bought the house 3 years ago! Even though we had to stay up until 2 am a few nights it was nice spending time together working and talking!

Pray for us! We are starting the moving process! We will be leaving Alabama on Sunday and heading to Oklahoma for an entire month! Neil will be doing an externship at Baptist Hospital. While in OK our house will be on the market here and we will be looking for a new one there. We have been very busy getting our house ready to sell. We have been sorting our junk and packing up the closets and trying to fix a few things. This week we have to do finishing touches, pack for our month long "vacation", and leave the house in "viewing" condition so someone will hopefully want to buy it! AAAhhh! I should not really be on the computer, I should be vacuuming the house to prepare for the carpet cleaners tomorrow! I am not sure I want to risk waking up the kids since it is 11:00 pm. Well, that is the reason you have not heard from us in a while!

paper airplanes

Mitchell was sitting in the floor the other night coloring in a notepad and tearing out each page he colored on. I sat down with him and thought, "What can we do with all of this paper on the floor?" Hoping for a cool mom moment I quietly made a paper airplane. I said, "Look Mitchell, watch this airplane." I threw the airplane. He glanced up, but was not really impressed. He colored a little more. I tried a second prototype, "Watch this one." The second airplane took an immediate nose dive. He grabbed a piece of paper and said, "Mommy watch this airplane." I watched with anticipation as he stood up, waded the paper, and dropped it on the floor. Huh, not what I was expecting!

He threw a few more paper ball planes. I threw a few more folded paper planes. He was still not getting it. Mark joined us and helped make my airplanes look more like Mitchell's. Mitchell disappeared into his room for a moment and came back with a small model space shuttle. "Watch this one Mommy!" as he dropped and it crashed to the floor! OH! - my cool mom moment crashed with it! Actually it was probably a good little science experiment, but it had to be cut short because the small metal space shuttle's flight plan kept inching dangerously close to Mark's head!