The Newest House!

Well, we've had quite a first time experience dealing in real estate. As you've all heard, we've been patiently waiting for our first home to go to closing. Well, as of yesterday it won't. If you might recall, the owner was behind on her mortgage and her bank was about to forclose on her. We gave her an extension to get her money together. She didn't and we gave her bank time to decide what they were going to do with her and the house. Well, some how she came up with the $3700 she needed to close with and has decided that she is not going to sell, now that she's caught up I guess. Even with our broker, her broker and realtor telling her she shouldn't since she is under contract, she hasn't budged. Jason called me yesterday after work and said we needed to go to Powell right away. We were both rather paturbed and getting a little "miffed" at the woman, but remembered a story we had heard recently about a man who was up for a promotion and didn't get it on the account that he was black. Instead of getting angry and bitter, he was going to congratulate the man and bless him. In return, the Lord blessed him with 5 fold in a new promotion and salary. We decided to take the same approach, not to get mad and even but bless her.

So we travelled to Powell yesterday and frantically looked at 6 homes. The first 2 were kind of trashy. The third was small, had a huge yard but was in the industrial part of town. Went on to a nicer one but it still needed work. Looked at a more expensive, nicer home with a yard and then we came upon this little ditty.This house may be 400 sq ft smaller but it has 3 times the ammenities we would have had to put into the other house. It is only 1000sq ft. with 2 bdrms and 1 bath, but it has a dishwasher, hard wood floors, sun room, side and back patio, lawn and trees, nice quiet neighborhood across from the new hospital, central air, new windows and doors. It is sooooooo cute and the best part is we both love it (something we prayed on the way to Powell) and are extremely excited right now to move in. The other house we were losing out excitement already since we found some things that we'd have to fix. This one is ready to move into. It was put on the market 2 days prior and we put in a full offer because it is even cheaper than the one we were going to pay for. PRAISE GOD! So we're hoping closing is going to go through this time and we can close on the 21st of September!

Weekend Wedding

Here's some pics from Lisa Regier (Unrau) wedding from Sunday. The reception and alot of pics were done on their yard. Jason was a horse and donkey wrangler so they could take some pics with her beloved animals. Lisa was so beautiful. The wedding was in Winkler, Manitoba.

I need more summer!

I can't believe that school starts on Wednesday. I have to go to meetings tomorrow and meet the boy I'm going to be working with one on one. So this is my last day of summer vacation! I can't remember a whole lot of what I did but I need more time! I guess that's life. It's hard to believe that summer will be over next month and hunting season is on us once again.
Here's the latest update on our house situation. Last we were told the seller owed $2000 on the title yet. Well, that was actually $3700. She had $2000 but spent it on some bills that came in. She has been behind on payments for 3 months and the bank is going to foreclose on her. Our broker is talking to her bank today to see if they would put up the $3700 so we can close and they can deal with her. This is where we stand as of now. Our broker Eric goes to our church and said that he is going to talk to them today and hopefully will know something by the end of the day. He used to be a banker so he can talk their lingo.
This week is a busy week for us. I start work tomorrow, Jason is working, we're not sure if we're going to close this week, we're planning to leave thursday after school to drive to Canada for a friend's wedding which I said I would play at. Wedding is on Sunday and we'll drive back monday to go to work on Tuesday. What a weekend we'll have. I need more summer holidays!!!!!!

Busy Weekend

Even though we didn't move, we still managed to fill our weekend. There was a 10 yr reunion/camp meeting in Meeteetse at the YWAM base I attended in 2001. Saw some old friends and many with their little children. Our friend, Red Seibel stayed with us and his adorable daughter Bentleigh. She calls me Aunt Amanda. She will be 3 in November. I didn't get a picture of her awake but she was cute sleeping. Her and Jason caught some z's in the living room
This was friday and saturday.

Sunday we went to church and went fishing with our friend's Jon and Sheila. We found a hole that we've had some good luck with and we were all pulling fish out. Sheila caught her first edible fish which we did cook on the barbecue. Jason kept 2 big ones, I kept a medium sized one and Sheila kept her smaller trout. They were either rainbow trout or cut throat trout. Fish paired with fresh corn on the cob made for a pretty great meal. These are pictures of the smoke we saw from a fire that was a few miles away from us. The east entrance from Cody into Yellowstone has been closed and now they have evacuated Pahaska Teepee, the first guest ranch outside the gate. It's hard to see the mountains in Cody now due to all the smoke.

No Moving Yet!

Some people, I'll tell you what. Looks like we won't be moving tomorrow due to the fact the seller didn't have all of her "ducks in a row". She says now that she is $2000 short of paying for the house on the title. So she's asked for an extension on the closing, which we'll give her in good faith that everything is going to work out for us. We've pretty much packed everything except the kitchen, so it looks like we'll be living out of boxes for 2 more weeks. We're both pretty frustrated! Just pray for us that things will all work out the way they're supposed to.

Moving Day!!!!

Tomorrow is moving day around here. At least we're going to try to move. We went to Billings, MT yesterday and made some very costly buys, a washer, dryer and a new tv. My check book feels significantly lighter for some reason. Hopefully with enough help we will get it done tomorrow. Most things are boxed except the last minute things and my kitchen. That's my job today which I'm not looking forward to. Well, I should go and do some errands. We are also having some friends stay with us this weekend who are coming down for the CWAM Camp meeting and reunion. So we'll be a bit displaced and busy.

Work!

This week has been a busy week for us. Tuesday and Wednesday I helped Jason on a job. Oh my goodness, the homeowner is so ANAL over every little detail. (Don't know if i should have used anal but it so fits) Jason just wanted to get the job done, so yesterday we spent 13 hours at her house working until 9:15 PM! Getting all the minor last details done on her house. AAAAHHHHH!!!!! I was so happy to leave and "hit the hay". It was a long day and nerves were high between the carpenter and his helper of one. Now it's just the last minute paperwork that he needs to give her and hopefully we can get a check from her pronto. She'd be the type to draw it out and find where every last penny was spent and if its too much, come and complain. No, I"m not bitter about it at all, just annoyed.
Anyways... I can't believe that school starts in 19 days and then i have to go back to my job. Where has the summer gone? We haven't done some of the things we wanted to. I guess there is always fall.
We close on our house next friday! Can't believe it. Hopefully we can move on friday and the last stuff on saturday with some much needed help. Jason will have it all unboxed in one day. No living with boxes for him. I'll be pulling out my hair trying to keep up with him.