Christmas Eve Snow!
You can not see the snow in the pictures but we did have a little snow on Christmas Eve. It was very windy and cold but we let the kids go outside and play in it while it lasted.
Thursday December 24, 2009 - It is not even Christmas day and I am exhausted. We spent the past several days in San Antonio with my family to celebrate Christmas. It was nice to spend time with everyone and let the kids see their cousins. The kids did not want to leave.
To start our visit off our dog decided to eat an entire bar of homemade soap. Needless to say he was sick that night and the next day. I thought all was good until I noticed he was passing blood. So we ended up at a vet hospital and he had to have several tests done and stay the night on top of that. Let's just say he better be on his best behavior for awhile otherwise Jerry may throw him out.
I still have to go to the store today to get stuff to make chili and I still have to wrap all my gifts. I am usually done several weeks before now with all of that but I have been putting everything off this year.
On the house sale... We had an open house on Sunday and it went very well. We had three very interested couples and we will see what happens. I am crossing my fingers that one or all will make an offer soon. We still don't know where we will end up but we will figure it out. We did find out that the foreclosure we are looking into may not go on the market until February. We need to get our house sold first before we can make a move on anything.
I have been feeling okay. I have not been sleeping well, so therefor I am tired. I have had numbness in my legs and pain in my legs and arms. I think the pain is due to the weather. It seems like every time the weather is about to change I have pain somewhere.
I hope everyone has a great Christmas. I will try to post some pictures early next week.
Amanda
To start our visit off our dog decided to eat an entire bar of homemade soap. Needless to say he was sick that night and the next day. I thought all was good until I noticed he was passing blood. So we ended up at a vet hospital and he had to have several tests done and stay the night on top of that. Let's just say he better be on his best behavior for awhile otherwise Jerry may throw him out.
I still have to go to the store today to get stuff to make chili and I still have to wrap all my gifts. I am usually done several weeks before now with all of that but I have been putting everything off this year.
On the house sale... We had an open house on Sunday and it went very well. We had three very interested couples and we will see what happens. I am crossing my fingers that one or all will make an offer soon. We still don't know where we will end up but we will figure it out. We did find out that the foreclosure we are looking into may not go on the market until February. We need to get our house sold first before we can make a move on anything.
I have been feeling okay. I have not been sleeping well, so therefor I am tired. I have had numbness in my legs and pain in my legs and arms. I think the pain is due to the weather. It seems like every time the weather is about to change I have pain somewhere.
I hope everyone has a great Christmas. I will try to post some pictures early next week.
Amanda
Pictures
Wednesday December 16, 2009 - Emily had her Christmas program last night and she was so excited to get dressed up.Happy Monday
Monday December 14, 2009 - I hope everyone is doing well. I have been fighting a sore throat and cough for 6 days now. I think I may give in and go see the dr tomorrow. I am now losing my voice and not sleeping very well at night. I think the lack of sleep has also been contributing to more pain in my legs and arms and numbness in my leg.
As for the house..... There is not really anything new to report. We are still having people come by to see our house which is good and we had a realtor tour last week. We had about 35 realtors come in and evaluate our house as far as price and staging and all that jazz. We had tons of great feedback. We don't need to change anything! Thank God. We are still looking at houses but still wanting to see the foreclosure down the road. The bank says they don't own it so we are guessing that they don't have a clear title yet. That is fine by me. The longer they take the better for us for now. We have been very interested in what the floor plan was like on the inside so we did find a spec that they are building in far south Austin and went and walked it on Sunday. We both liked it and I think it will work. I will just be very happy when we finally have a contract on our house. I am so tired of having to make sure my house is spotless all the time.
Other than that things are fairly calm. Emily has a Christmas program tomorrow and I think that is about all that we have going on this week. I guess I really should think about finishing my shopping. I decided to not mail out Christmas cards this year, do my annual baking and all the other tons of holiday stuff we do. I think we all have enough stress right now and would like to just relax and enjoy the holidays.
Well, I hope you all have a great week.
Amanda
As for the house..... There is not really anything new to report. We are still having people come by to see our house which is good and we had a realtor tour last week. We had about 35 realtors come in and evaluate our house as far as price and staging and all that jazz. We had tons of great feedback. We don't need to change anything! Thank God. We are still looking at houses but still wanting to see the foreclosure down the road. The bank says they don't own it so we are guessing that they don't have a clear title yet. That is fine by me. The longer they take the better for us for now. We have been very interested in what the floor plan was like on the inside so we did find a spec that they are building in far south Austin and went and walked it on Sunday. We both liked it and I think it will work. I will just be very happy when we finally have a contract on our house. I am so tired of having to make sure my house is spotless all the time.
Other than that things are fairly calm. Emily has a Christmas program tomorrow and I think that is about all that we have going on this week. I guess I really should think about finishing my shopping. I decided to not mail out Christmas cards this year, do my annual baking and all the other tons of holiday stuff we do. I think we all have enough stress right now and would like to just relax and enjoy the holidays.
Well, I hope you all have a great week.
Amanda
What a weekend
Sunday December 6, 2009 - We have learned that selling and buying a house is so much more stressful than we could have ever imagined. We found out Friday, to every one's surprise, that the sellers of the "new" house got another offer without a contingency. What this means for us is that we have until Tuesday to either sell our house and take the contingency off of our contract with them or walk away. It is looking like we will have to walk away. I have really been set on this house so it is a little heart breaking for us, but what else can we do. We did go out and look at houses on Friday. One we did not like at all and another was nice but in a totally different school district. I am having a very hard time with the idea of pulling Dylan out of the school he is in. So we will keep looking.
We have found another house that we want to look at. It is a foreclosure and it was a model home that was not lived in very long at all. It should be in fairly decent shape (except for the grass that did not get watered at all this summer). The house is not even on the market yet so our realtor is going to call the bank that owns it tomorrow and find out when we can look at it and the timeline for purchase. It is not as big as the other house but does have a large bonus room upstairs. So it is 1 and 1/2 stories. The kids LOVE the idea of having stairs.
We will see what happens. We still hope we can still sell ours soon so that when we do find something else that we like we can jump. I hope you have all had a good weekend and have a great week.
Amanda
We have found another house that we want to look at. It is a foreclosure and it was a model home that was not lived in very long at all. It should be in fairly decent shape (except for the grass that did not get watered at all this summer). The house is not even on the market yet so our realtor is going to call the bank that owns it tomorrow and find out when we can look at it and the timeline for purchase. It is not as big as the other house but does have a large bonus room upstairs. So it is 1 and 1/2 stories. The kids LOVE the idea of having stairs.
We will see what happens. We still hope we can still sell ours soon so that when we do find something else that we like we can jump. I hope you have all had a good weekend and have a great week.
Amanda
Thursday December 3, 2009 - Hello! It has been awhile since my last post. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. We sure did and really enjoyed the time off of work and school. We have been very busy with work, school, holidays and packing up the house. We don't have a contract on our house yet but we are hoping sooner than later. We have had two open houses and will have a third this weekend. We are all so tired of having the house on the market already. We have been either eating out or eating microwave dinners because I am afraid to cook. The last time we cooked we made fish and right after dinner we got a call from a realtor wanting to come by. We just never know when we will have to load up and leave.
I am trying to take my time with the packing so that I don't get too tired. I have had some pain in my arms the last several days and I am sure the weather is part of the problem. By the time all of the moving and packing and unpacking is done Jerry will be worn out. I am trying to help some but I am afraid to lift anything too heavy. I am so afraid my arms will give out and I will drop something.
I will keep you all posted on the house situation. Our contract on the new house expires at the end of this month so we really need to get a contract soon on our house.
I hope you all stay warm and dry. We are supposed to get snow tomorrow. I will believe it when I see it.
Amanda
I am trying to take my time with the packing so that I don't get too tired. I have had some pain in my arms the last several days and I am sure the weather is part of the problem. By the time all of the moving and packing and unpacking is done Jerry will be worn out. I am trying to help some but I am afraid to lift anything too heavy. I am so afraid my arms will give out and I will drop something.
I will keep you all posted on the house situation. Our contract on the new house expires at the end of this month so we really need to get a contract soon on our house.
I hope you all stay warm and dry. We are supposed to get snow tomorrow. I will believe it when I see it.
Amanda
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