Finally, a prince!!

(It cannot be a princess because the fixtures are no longer in style! Hehe!)

Yep, we found one, we found this house online last night, looked at it first thing this morning and again in the afternoon. Tomorrow we're signing the paperwork to fax to the bank, so they have our offer first thing Monday morning!

Now we're just saying lots of prayers that this house is the one for us and the bank will accept our offer or at least acknowledge it in the next week. What a wonderful Christmas present for our family to have our house in OK taken care of (we'll take the buy-out before we leave on the 24th if we don't have any offers this next week) and the bank works with us on a price on this one.

They don't have Lowe's up here, there is Home Depot and a store called Menard's, which is the equivalent to Lowe's...why am I telling you this? Well, if you were in the market for buying some stock, both of those would be good ones, since their sales will be goin up in the new year if we get this house - it has all brass fixtures - YIKES and I'll be putting all of my previously budgeted for scrappy stuff money towards getting new hardware for the house (and that's a BIG budget;).

Good night!

Taking a little breather...

So no looking at homes today, thank goodness! It was so nice to have the break, especially after seeing the 9 that our realtor has scheduled for us tomorrow - it should be an eye-opening experience for hubby!

So what did we do on our "day off" this morning? I started working on a scarf for myself (it matches the super cool plum colored hat that I bought for myself with my birthday money from my parents - I'll post a picture of me with both the scarf and hat on when I get done - btw, the yarn for the scarf was purchased with my gc from Hobby Lobby that my sis gave me for my b'day...so happy belated birthday to me!)...

Alex played checkers on cartoonnetwork.com while I worked on my scarf and watched some food network (LOVE temp housing for cable - if you didn't already know, we don't have cable in our homes, Andy will not pay for cable when we can pick up the major channels, with HD from a big ole antennae that he puts up...(and we don't even live in a trailer, surprising, I know!) and laughed out loud at Paula Deen. Here's two things that were so funny from her show that I had to write down...

"I've never knew a pig that I didn't love off of the grill."
"Add a pat of butter - you could make it without the butter, but who would want to?"

Good times, good cable tv!

Today I took Alex to the school district to have his speech tested...they are not as quick to get him into a school as I was led to believe they were when we were still in OK. I reminded them that he has an IEP, so by the No Child Left Behind Law, he should not have any lapse in services and it's now been over a week since he's been out of school. Her response was that he is their top priority...we'll see.

Afterwards, we went to Burger King for an early dinner and LOTS of play for little man! There was a nice family there - Alex loved chasing the 7 year old boy around with the 5 year old sister, but my little love bunny was caught smooching on the girl in one of the tunnels - her mom laughed about it, but still asked him not to kiss on anyone, especially during cold season. (I think he's having Joshi girls withdraws - I know I am!!)

Well, eggnog is waiting for my next to my scarf...nightie-night!

Baby it's cold outside....(w/pics!)

So we've kissed two dozen toady houses and NO princes, yet! I found our dream-house, but no deck (don't step out of the sliding glass door!) and an unfinished basement, BUT sideyard has a pond, there are tons of trees and best of all, it has a WOLF stove and a HUGE island with granite! No go though unless they'll add a deck and a basement, leaving it at the same price - not.

Andy is off today - he hooked up my computer, so I can now post pics! Yay! But back to him...he's going to take off maybe tomorrow, but definitely Friday to look at houses, so he can see for himself that I'm not being dramatic by saying that if you're insisting on a 3 car-garage, a deck & a finished basement in HIS price range, they're dumps!

Alex and Andy are out on the deck of our apartment, sweeping it and smoking a cigar (I'll let you guess which one is doing what!), so I took a few shots:

The beautiful view from our apartment

Why can't you see Alex's face?!

Because he's all bundled up - hehe! (although daddy says it's because mommy's a bad photographer - blah.)

Well, I guess they're cold because they're coming in! Time to unwrap the little man...

New email...

So for some reason my Cox account isn't working even though we're paying for it - arrrrr.

Anyhow, I've got a new email and unfortunately don't have access to my email address book, so please help me out friends and family and let others know - thanks! mommy2alex@live.com

Off to rest up for a looooong day of house-hunting tomorrow in the snow!