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| Todd Lake: learned a new running tip...run like your are being eaten alive by mosquitos |
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| First pool day: asked for $18 to get his own goggles |
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| Juniper Pool |
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| Best Moving helpers |
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| Josh at High Desert Museum |
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| "The beach" at the river |
I really have dropped the ball lately with my blog, and with good reason. Things were changing faster than I could catch up. So...we bought a house. The way that it had come about was our landlord saying that he was planning on selling the house we were in. OK. Thanks, Brian. So, that began the search, as well as the debate on making an offer on the house we were in, and more searching. Our friend who is a in real estate agent was awesome, and we set up some outings with him right away to look at some places. The first week looking there were always some things that we liked, and things we didn't like, and we usually would walk away just not really knowing what to do. There was no time frame of needing to get out of our current place, but we didn't really want to wait till we were in that predicament. We did actually make an offer on the place we were in, a reasonable price considering the home, and the year it was built, and he was asking for much more, so that was our answer. So, we went a few more times with a little more motivation to find something. We went on a Saturday really intent on finding a house. We had been looking all morning, Rowan was spent, and Sam and I finally decided he would take a look at this last house, and I would take the boys home, but when I saw the house we were going to look at, I had to see inside. With a sad Rowan, and unloading the boys again for what felt like the 100th time, we went in, and Sam and I were both finally excited about the same house. Sam said right away, "This is it. This is the one." I completely agreed! And, we wrote up the offer that day.
The escrow date was set for 4 weeks out, and it didn't seem like very long at all! Packing and moving in that short amount of time. But, what made it seem long was the fact that you have to send these people everything in your whole life to get approved for a loan (because we didn't have the cash up front haha!) and, at a point, we would not have been surprised if they asked for our first born. But, we closed on the 15th of May. As planned. It has been a transition, and at first, I was definitely missing my neighbors, being closer to friends, I loved the old side of town.. (I know, I know Bend is not a big town ha!) but still, there were things I was missing. My mom and my sister who, both have such talents in decorating and organizing were amazing enough to come a couple weeks after moving in to help me with those things. I honestly I already knew the combination of the two of them together, my house would be so much more together, but they exceeded what I already knew! They can walk in and have an automatic vision of what it could be, and I still am completely blown away. I can honestly say since they came, and everything came together, is when I fell in love with my house. Suddenly everything about it became like home. Of course, we also had a great time together, good laughs, and good conversation. The boys love them a lot, and a couple weeks later and they are bringing them up. Kaj said just a few days ago, "I miss Mor Mor and Aunt Whit..a lot." Its was very sweet. And, Josh going to bed the other night after saying I was beautiful (sweet kid) said, "And Mor Mor is beautiful!" reminding me a very funny moment when they were here. My friend Sara came over to look at the house, and immediately said, "can you please send them over to my house?!." They are good.
Very condensed, that brings us to now. Summer is here officially. I took the boys to this big water balloon fight today to kick off the summer right. I finally sat down the other day, and wrote out ideas, hikes, all kinds of plans for the summer, and it made me very excited about it. We are working on the current situation at hand which is our lack of air conditioning in the house, and with a 97 degree spike this week we really had to take into deep consideration maybe our little air conditioning unit isn't quite enough? But, till then we have it set up in the front room, open the windows at night, and hope for the best.
Feeling grateful.
