a quickie [post]

via urban outfitters

1. too lazy to link it up. thought it was funny.

2. waiting for ham to get home. i would rather be sleeping.

3. i say it will be mike's turn when kaylee's this age but i have a feeling he wouldn't last till 10pm. and thats being generous.

4. went to the fair yesterday. kaylee surprised me and said she wanted to do the hula hoop contest.

5. she didn't do very well and we all know she should of won but she overcame her shyness and i couldn't be more proud!

6. i need a hobby. by 7pm my sweatpants were on.

7. my future master bathroom is kinda ugly. it has an ugly tub and glass-block shower wall thats in the middle of the bathroom- along the wall of course.

8. since there won't be any money left to redo them right away [and i'm ok with that] i'm going to paint the chocolate walls this color- in some photos it looks light grey.

9. i wish i had taken my nikon with us when house hunting. [took my "purse" camera but used my iphone]

10. and i wish i had taken more photos of the house.

intuition

1. thats our crazy realtor who put 900 miles on her car while we were looking at houses that week.

2. she even offered me an assistants job once we settle in.

3. i'm so glad that i told mike to wait and see what happens with the fun house before doing anything else.

4. i also had a gut feeling that we would get some news on monday.

5. 2 minutes into tuesday, while brushing my teeth, i got a text from our crazy realtor.

6. WE GOT THE HOUSE!!

7. i was SO happy that i had to wake up mike to tell him the news!

8. with closing and all that other boring stuff, it looks like we will be moving in august 25.

9. kaylee will miss the first week of school but sometimes thats how life goes.

10. now its time to sell our house.

good friends and some luck

photo taken by nerd michelle

1. i have the best of friends! the day before mike + i left for houston, my nerd herds threw us a farewell get together. [all but 1- she was celebrating her anniversary- whatev!]

2. they even sent me some nerd power on our last day there because i was down in the dumps about being second offer on the hertfordshire house. [aka the fun house]

3. saturday evening, we had another farewell party thrown for us by my bitches.

4. on the way home mike said something about how he sweated a ton while golfing. we then hear kaylee say "did you sweat your balls off?"

5. um yeah we laughed our butts off! then had to tell her thats something a 6.5 year old girl should never say.

6. our realtor called. to make long story short: the sellers are getting really antsy to sell, the first offer people are really dragging their feet so much so that their realtor wants out, which means we should have an answer, hopefully {nerd power!], by friday.

7. first night to trying to get kaylee sleeping in her own room, again.

8. sunday i saw some expired 50% off promo's for erin condren life planners.

9. just when i was getting ready to be happy with my $10 off promo code, plum district came through for me. they are offering a $50.00 certificate for $25.00.

10. i have yet to find a planner that i love. i've had momagenda but found it too bulky + large. my kate spade one is too small. hopefully this one will be just right.

*if you want one, let me know and i send you a direct link which also gives me credit. i will also give you the promo code to get $10 bucks off that you can use with it. [i used 2 certificates + the promo code]

update

wanted to buy one of local artist heather brown's painting while in hawaii but wasn't sure how i was going to get it home.

1. i've been going crazy this week waiting to hear anything about fun house.

2. till we got the news that they do indeed have a signed contract.

3. in the meantime, mike and i finally decided that we would all move as a family when he started his new position august 1.

4. then his boss tells him he won't be starting then. he has to stay till the selling of the goshen office and that could be september/october.

5. around lunchtime today mike said that we should put in an offer on house #3.

6. my gut was telling me not too. after looking up the mls #, it says it has an offer already on it. must of happened yesterday.

7. so then i started to panic. all the houses that we liked are selling fast.

8. after catching my breath on all of this, i decided that i want to wait things out for the fun house. there is that glimmer of hope that we can still get it. [they're waiting on financing]

9. we will just go with the flow as each situation comes up.

10. as one of my favorite quotes says "everything will be okay in the end. if its not okay, then its not the end"

i am NOT going to stress out

1. we spent a week house hunting in the texas heat. we looked at maybe 50+ houses.

2. we decided on two maybe three. the one above is our favorite. in houston, you can put down $100 to get ten days to decide whether or not you want it. during this time, you also need to get the inspections done.

3. the day we went to see the house we found out that someone had done just that.

4. and of course we ended up loving the house.

5. two days later we went back to see the house again. the owner said she felt like she had to meet us even though we were not the people she thought we were.

6. turns out her and her husband went to notre dame. so did the previous owners. we all took it as a sign that it was meant to be.

7. we put in an offer that night in hopes that the first offer falls through.

8. we are still waiting for that offer to fall through. the sellers realtor went out of town to make things even worse.

9. thursday i had to break down and cry. friday, i did not want to go and look at any more houses till i heard that the seller of our favorite house sabotaged her house for us. [the people with the first offer did another walk through that morning]

10. we also put in an offer to our second choice only to have had it countered. then tonight i found out that they decided they didn't want to sell their house after all.

keeping the tooth fairy busy

1. when we were in hawaii, the hawaiian tooth fairy showed up because she lost the other bottom tooth.

2. on our way to the white sox game saturday she lost one of her top teeth.

3. wednesday evening while eating breadsticks, she lost her other top tooth.

4. now she talks funny. but looks oh so cute!

5. we got an offer on the house! our first showing and an offer!

6. of course it couldn't be simple. they wanted to know if we would sell the house without the other lot.

7. since we're no longer going to be in the state, thought it would be best and easiest to sell both together. they can sell it if they want.

8. fingers crossed they call back with an offer.

9. seriously getting nervous that we won't find a house when we head to houston.

10. nothing seems to compare to the ones we love but are pending sales.

things you do when you're bored

1. ham would kill me if he knew i was posting this. [found it on the ipad today. he did this on sunday]*he found it somehow but thinks i deleted it- bwahahahaha!

2. wednesday kaylee went to work for me. she thought it was the coolest thing. she even got to see me do my thing when we went to drop off menus at the local hotels.

3. friday we got mike to take us to shipshewana for some pretzels and merry go rounding.

3. saturday we went to see the white sox beat the cubs [1-0] hey! a win is a win no matter how big or small.

4. on the way there kaylee was munching on some chips and her loose tooth came out. [the other one is hanging by the corner]

5. kaylee had a great time thanks to ME! i would rub her ears, belly, wave her arms or do something goofy and tell her it was for a hit or a catch or an out.

6. sunday we had friends come over for a last minute fire pitting. we saw a few cars drive by...

7. oh. we have a for sale sign in the front yard and tonight we got a call that we have a showing tomorrow evening. fingers crossed!

8. we're leaving soon to go house hunting in houston. the house i really wanted to see is pending. i'm so sad i didn't get to see it in person.

9. i got to spend 14 hours in laporte yesterday then got to come home to hear mike puke. i love 4th of july just for that reason.

10. i desperately need to go to the grocery store. my poor neglected family