Love Story

So I'm betting that anyone who reads this knows that our offer on the house got accepted. I'm so excited and have been feeling like flying for two days. I can't believe that Doug and I are going to own our own home. A little background so you can understand why this is such a huge deal for me.

The last time that I lived in a place that we owned it was for a few years in Winthrop Washington. That was now over eight years ago, since then we've lived in apartment after apartment, rental home after rental home. I know that since I've lived hear life has calmed down and we only lived in three different houses in the past six years, but it's hard to feel at home when you don't know what home is. My life has blossomed more than I ever though possible. Moving here was the best thing that could have happened to me, even if you don't include the fact that I ended up marrying the best man imaginable. Now in just a little over a month I should have a place for the first time in my life that I can call MY home. A place that I can mess up, clean up, fix up, and love. It's in this little town that makes my heart swell every time I even look out of the window. The beautiful hills and huge sky take my breath away. I don't feel crowded or rushed, I can breathe, move around, feel myself relax. To know that someday hopefully I can share this with my children makes my heart smile. No more cages, or walls to hold me back, it's just me and my love and I can't wait!

Well you guys might not be as excited as me, but I'm telling you this is groundbreaking, breath taking, and revolutionary. Sometime I hope to be able to convey just what it means to me, but
even though I'm better with writing words than speaking them, I just can't explain. Last night
Doug spent ten minutes just hugging me and whispering to me that we are going to buy a house. It's as if all those times when I sat there wishing on a star for someone to love came true, but came true even better than I thought they would. I mean love is love, but is it possible that it grows even after you thought it could grow no bigger. If I have this capacity to care, love and share it, it kind of shows just how monumentally god loves me. It's a little mind boggling isn't it? Well I'm sure this is enough rambling for one day =)

Patience is a virtue........that I don't have

So you all know that we put in an offer on a house out here in the windy city! It was only yesterday and I've been biting my nails all day (it's only 1:30) to know what is going on. The offer we sent in was technically 90k with them paying closing so really 87k. Today we saw that they lowered the house price from 90k to 88k so awesome! That means we have an even better chance at our offer being accepted. As far as we know there are no other offers in on the house and there haven't been in the two months it's been on the market. Send us prayers and good luck because we need it. Now as for the title of the post I don't have any patience. Scratch that I have lots of patients but it's limited to children. It's an ongoing joke in our house that Doug tells me how impatient i am and when I mention that we need to hurry even though we have no time limit he just gives me a look and laughs.
I'm finally getting over my cold and HURRAY for that. Now I only have a million house hold chores to work on because I was sick for a week. Oh on the job front news I put in an application at a daycare being built here in hurricane. The director sounded excited that I had a background in daycare and that I lived out here, so thats always good news. They are holding interviews the first week of March and then sometime in March I'd go work in St. George for two weeks before they opened the daycare out here. I'm hoping that all goes well, but if I don't get a job with them then I will compete and open an at home daycare of my own.
We went and visited my parents in St. George yesterday and I realized how much I miss seeing them. I laughed when I walked in and they were both sitting at their computers, next to each other, not talking, in the same room. I miss the free food the most I think =) Mike is coming this weekend to visit (not really he has drill but I'll see him anyway) so that is exciting. Well wish us luck and love!

B-day/ V-day

So it's Valentines day again and of course that is the day after my b-day. Lets start there then, we had Jason and Kylie over for homemade pizza. We all had a fun time listening to Jason try to speak but for some reason almost all his words got scrambled. We played Kings in the corner and skipbo and then ate the most beautiful cake ever! I made a wish I do hope will come true along with big birthday kisses from doug. I think it was a success, dispite the being sick thing that is still going on. I've been having to sleep on the couch so i don't wake up Doug from all my coughing =( Then comes Valentines day and I had the brilliant idea to (while on cough syrup with codine) take a bunch of kids spider man v-day things and write love quotes on them for doug. He loved it and not to mention the spiderman table cloth they were sitting on =) Though I it took a little of me interpreting my own handwriting to read through them all. Along with that I wrote two poems and maybe I'll post them on here when it's daylight and I don't have to move to get them.
He on the other hand did almost the same thing for me. I didn't know what he was doing but he went into our room and when I came in there were tons of little kid valentines day things on the bed that were harry potter. Along with some chocolates, a teddy bear he got out of a claw machine, and those little sweet heart candies. For dinner we went out on a limb and made stuffed mushrooms (I'll give you guys the recipie later yum) and stuffed green peppers. Oh ya and root beer in the crystal wine glasses my mom gave me and doug. We lit the candles and put a table cloth on the table and while we ate James called. We then had a long conversation about the Percy Jackson movie before we continued with dinner. All in all it was a great valentines day and birthday and I can't wait until later this week when I get to celebrate my birthday with my parents.
Being 21 now doesn't feel any different but I can tell you I keep thinking that i'm getting old too fast. Ya I know I got a long way to go but still 21 is a big deal. Doug turns 24 and I still think 24 year olds are way older than me. I just need to get out of the mindset of a teenager I guess and remember that age doesn't matter so much anymore. Well it's late and I'm hoping that tonight I will finally sleep when I want to.

Home Time?

So we found out that there are some really great programs right now for first time home buyers and doug and I have been looking it up. out here in Hurricane there is 100% financing so no down payment! Also there may be a two thousand dollar grant for us along with the eight thousand stimulus thingy still going on. I'm just hoping that everything works out. We found a 4 bedroom 2 bath house for only 90 thousand! Amazing I know! It needs carpets eventually but they aren't nearly as bad as my parents lime green nasty crap they have. Also it need to be cleaned since the previous tenants didn't do a very good job. We are heading into St. George tomorrow to put in an offer so cross your fingers for us! If all goes well in a few months we'll be in our own house paying only like 700 something a month and I'll have a job at a daycare out here that is opening up in a month or so. We'll have money to put Doug through school in St. George and yes, he'll have to commute but who cares?
Oh and last night I watched the move Kate and Leopold. Oh my goodness was it cute! I've only seen bits and pieces of it here and there and finally I saw the whole time. Another good one was Serendipity, I like Kate Beckinsale she is super cute in this one.
I totally miss Hannah and Tavie and of course Lynne, it was so much fun seeing her. The coolest thing though is she said my name first! I guess we are the favorite Auntie and Uncle now. It's my birthday on saturday and I can't wait to be 21. I can't believe that I'm almost 21. I still feel like I'm 18 despite the ring on my finger. Well I'm sick with a chest cold and coughing up a lung so pray that all goes well in the house department for us!

Third grade Drama

Well as you may or may not know my Aunt Lynda broke her shoulder a few weeks back and had to have surgery on it. She broke her right shoulder so she can't do much with her right arm at all so I've been going into her class to help out. It's amazing watching her third grade class, I mean heck ya I remember third grade! Eww Miss. Salanger Zornow, if you ever want to hear about a mean teacher just ask! But I never remember it like this. They come into class, and work on their morning work. I swear we used to spend hours a day on an assignment, but here they are only taking ten minutes to work on math or cursive. Oh about cursive, I thought I remembered it well until Lynda asked me to write letters on the board for the kids. Ya, I failed, I had to look at the chart to make sure I was making my letters right and everything.
The first day no one would ask me for help even thought Lynda told them they could. It was a little awkward but I got smiles all the time. Go figure the first comment I get is "You're pretty" from one of the little girls. Then after that I got a flood of "I like your red nails" and "Your shoes are so cool!" I guess I dress like a third grader? The best thing by far though was when another teach was outside during recess with me and she was telling us about papers her third grade class wrote about whatr they would do if they were president. One of the boys in her class said "I would paint the white house green. It needs a new color, and also it would be camouflaged from all of the bad guys!" Wow who would have thunk to make the white house some other color, because if you think about it how boring is white? Very! Anyway it's back to the classroom today to help out and laugh at Lynda while she tries to write left handed.