Renovations

Well here are a few pictures from our kitchen renovation. I'm missing some before shots, I think they are still on my camera. The cabinets were brown. We also had butcher block counter tops. We still need to paint the walls and put up back splash but I think its looking awesome! My hubby and Mark did a great job! We also had help from our brother in law, Nick, with putting in our appliances and Gabe and Tara helped paint the cabinets a little too. :)

In Our House

We are in our new home! We've been in here for about 2 weeks now. We really love it and the kids are loving our driveway and back yard. They probably spend about 2-3 hours a day riding up down our driveway and running around the yard, jumping in the leave piles and chasing Chloe. Oh and even our dog is loving it here! She has always been such a lazy, non-playful dog, but since we've moved here she actually play with the kids! I think everyone is enjoying our space.
We are pretty much unpacked now. We have some stuff in the office still in boxes and a few items in the garage that need put away but for the most part we are settled in. This coming Wednesday we will be getting our new counter tops in and Jeff is planning on staining our cabinets soon. We also got our pool covered and hopefully this next week we will get the fence put up around it. Last week we had some of the teens over from our church who helped us with yard work and cleaning windows, ceiling fans, blinds, and cabinets. They are such a helpful bunch! I love 'em! :) I'm so thankful for the help we get from our church family. If it wasn't for them we wouldn't have been moved to our new house for free! We had about eight people show up that day to help us move and they brought their trucks and trailers for us. No moving truck for us, we moved Georgia style! :)
Maybe on my next post I will have some pictures of the house. Maybe I can do some before and afters of our kitchen. :)

Busy Busy!

We have been so busy this month with buying a house, work, school, church and kids. Right now we are still waiting to close on the house and we are praying that we can start moving in on Saturday. The closing day was set for November 1st but that is now being pushed back because the VA wants the septic tank dug up, pumped and inspected. Our wonderful real estate agent said she would pay for it since she didn't put that the homeowner provide the letter that he had it done 2 years ago in the contract. So now we are waiting for this to be done and then sent back to the VA and then back to our banker and then she has to prepare everything for closing. Sheesh! Praying that it all goes quickly b/c we have to be out of our rental by November 11th. On top of all of this Jeff had a class start today that he is busy teaching in, I have physical therapy appointments twice a week, the boys have school to get done, and I'm trying to pack between answering their questions and instructing them on what to do. We are feeling a bit overwhelmed but still so very excited about this house! I cannot wait to move in and make it ours! We were hoping to get a guy in to it this week to give us an estimate on the kitchen counter tops. Our plans are to do new counter tops, paint the existing cabinets, put up new back splash and hopefully buy new appliances. We also NEED to put a fence around the pool, that will be done w/in the first week since we have a little 2 year old running around! After we finish the kitchen and fence, we really don't have a lot more to do to the house other than landscaping and hopefully one day to update the master bath and put up a privacy fence around the whole backyard. One thing at a time though!! :)
Hopefully I will have pictures of our new house to post with in the next few weeks! Keep praying for us to keep sane and that we close on the house this week! :)

October Update

Loving October! This month has been a great month so far. We started it off with my parents flying down to visit us for 10 days. They actually just left today, bummed, but we had a great visit with them. The kids loved seeing their mima and papa again and Jeff and I love having them here as well. My mom and I did a lot of shopping and we also went on some walks with the kids and I somehow still got some school done as well. Thursday was my 30th birthday so Jeff took off work to watch the kids for me so my mom and I could go out all day. That night he surprised me with a party at O'Charleys which was a lot of fun.
This month we've also been under contract with the house I blogged about previously. So far it is ours unless the appraisal goes bad and the guy can't come down. So we are waiting patiently for the news on that.
I had a MRI done last week on my back b/c I've been having back issues every since my first pregnancy. I just a call from the dr today and she said I have 2 bulging discs, my L4-L5 and my L5-S1. I'm happy to finally know whats up with my back and I will be starting physical therapy this month. I hope this helps my back so I can get back to normal.

Accepted!

The homeowner accepted our offer yesterday! We are so excited and so nervous! I am the one who is nervous actually, Jeff handles all of this so well! So now we have 17 days to back out before it is ours. EEEeeee! :O This coming week is the home inspection and also the VA will do an appraisal on the home. Hopefully it all works out b/c if it does, the home should be ours on Oct. 28th!

Making an Offer

Today we are making an offer on a house we found! I'm really excited and so very VERY nervous! Praying that if this house is not the one God has for us that the guy won't accept nor come down to where we are comfortable.
If you're wondering about the house, its a cute little 3 bdrm 2 bath house that has about 1.4 acres and a pool! :) It needs a little cosmetic work done on the inside which is ok with us. We just love the yard and so we are ok with doing the inside work to have the yard we want.
Pray for us please that we make the right decisions! We are going in tonight to go over the contract with our realtor and then I guess we'll send it off! :)

"I'm 4!"

Tuesday night at Josiah and Gaber's soccer practices Tara announced to everyone that she is 4! The lady next to me asked if Tara was in pre-k. I told her no that Tara is only 2 which totally surprised her. Tara heard me say that she was only 2 and so she yelled out, "No I'm 4! I can play soccer now!" :) Tara wants to play soccer like her brothers and knows she needs to be 4, so maybe she thinks if she says she's 4 that I will let her play too. :)