SOOO on to the next update in our life, which happened on February 27,2012, we found out I was pregnant!! As excited as we were, this meant we really needed to consider what our next step in life was going to be to help take care of this little bump! And so we decided to buy a house!
Well, we have tried this once before, last summer, and we did not have much luck! It was frustrating, but luckily I think we stopped looking before we decided to never try that process again. So, with this new goal in mind, we went back to our bank and applied for another loan just as we had before.
After getting out loan approved about the middle of March we began looking again. Between Josh's and my schedule there wasn't many days we could go together, so he went with our realtor most of the time to see what we could find.Well the pickings were not near the same as they had been the year before and we weren't having much luck yet again. So we decided to look into just building a home.
After looking around we decided to go forward with building ourselves a cute little starter home, and signed papers for this on 4/28/12. The gentleman with the company told me "I can only move as fast as you can move" and so on 5/2/12 we went to the designer show house to pick all our colors, for cabinets, counter tops, and flooring. It only took about an hour and we were so excited when we left!
Well after a week we still hadn't heard anything from the builders. After numerous unreturned phone calls and e-mails we finally went down to the office again. There was another gentleman working and he was with other clients. We told him we didn't mind and we'd wait until he was free since leaving "messages" never got us any results. Once he was finished we informed him what we were waiting on and he told us to pick the colors and stone for our exterior. Josh and I drove around their subdivisions for a while looking at what we wanted then went back to the office with our selection.
This 2nd gentleman found our file, put everything together, confirmed our final selections and said we'd hear from them soon to confirm the blue prints.
Well it took unil 6/22/12 to finally approve the blue prints. We found out the reason for this delay later was they "lost our paperwork" which believe me we were calling and looking for updates at least twice a week, so I have NO idea how this was possible.
Well once again I wasn't able to be there so Josh went to the meeting with the builder to approve blue prints. Everything looked good so we gave the go ahead. We were told it takes about3 weeks to get permits back and from the time we get permits back it's 65 days until the house is complete. we were SO excited to have things finally moving, and this meant that we would be in our house middle of September!
(Also, in May we found someone to take over the lease for our apt and so moved in with the parents so that we didn't have to worry about paying rent on an apt and a mortgage.)
In other news during this time frame, on 6/13/12 we found out we are having a girl!!
We also went to St George June 8th or so for my cousin Lasca's wedding and to see family. This was a lot of fun and we enjoyed our weekend away and seeing family! There are pictures of this on my facebook page.
Will post more updates soon... hopefully sooner than 3 months apart. I hope to have this blog caught up to real time in the next couple weeks!
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