Our New House

SOLD!

House sold last Tuesday. We actually were fortunate to receive 2 offers last weekend. This was after 9 days of no showings. We close August 31st and have 7 days to get out. We are in the process of negotiations on a house in T-town. I am worn out from all this house stuff! Sad to being leaving Birmingham but ready to be settled in a town we should be in for a while. As soon as we know which house we are getting, I will post a picture. :)

Life

Today my cousin's life was cut way too short. They are so many things I wish I had said to her. Don't ever think you will have another day with your loved ones. Please keep my aunt and cousin (Adrienne's twin sister) in your prayers as they grieve during this very difficult time.

RIP Adrienne Theoret - 3/17/89-7/21/11

This was the last time I saw her, 6/17/11.

There are not WORDS to describe...

HER!

My little Kate is quite the big girl these days. We have decided we are no longer a baby and we will not drag this out any longer, we wear BIG GIRL PANTIES. And she has done great. However I am going to mall today and slightly nervous about that public potty.

New Kate-isms -

- If she wants to do anything and I am not letting her - "Let me do, I BIG GIRL"

- Very dramatic (imagine that)! Anytime she is having to tell us what happened, her eyes about pop out of her head and her hands are going crazy.

- Kate has been saying "Polkadot my shirt" - So Don and I will say it back and she is ready to start an argument saying it back louder. So funny, considering we just recently learned that she is just referring to her baby blue polkadot shirt.

- Kate has been nursing her babies and using the pump. She smiles big when I look her way. Oh dear!

- Kate is also gearing up for all the birthday months ahead. So she practices singing to Petey, then me, then herself, then Luke and Daddy. Because that is the order! Don said he thinks she inherited our voices (meaning BAD and that she needs to lip sing). I am like I am not sure you can tell that at age 2. :) Odds are however in her favor.

- She is very sweet. If she really wants any type of food, she makes sure she gets some and then wants to make sure someone else gets some too.

- She is still a little jokester with her daddy, still telling him that she is not daddy's girl she is PAW PAW's girl and then running. Oh did I mention that she now calls him Daddy Don. Forget daddy, we need to make sure everyone knows which daddy she is referring to (like she has multiple daddies).

- She has one music c.d. in the car and there are only 2 songs of 32 that she wants to listen to over and over and over again. Kate is like her mama, if she likes something she wants to wear it into the ground. The first song is the ABC song where the "Little People" are singing it. The other song is what the "B" or "bee" song, about a little bumblebee. Thanks to the ABC song Kate is close to knowing them. She also has a new interest for numbers thanks to this little annoying lily frog doll we have. She is a sponge these days.

- Mamey taught Kate a little game on the way to church 2 Sundays ago. If Kate saw a red light, she screamed "STOP" and when she sees green she yells "GO". She loves it however it is just making her more bossy. Thanks Mame!

Offer Rescinded

Well, people have a right to change their mind. And the people that gave us a contract decided last Friday that they really needed a finished basement. This was after we countered their offer and they countered again and we accepted Wednesday night. We had the contract in the mailbox for our realtor to pick up Thursday morning. We learned late Friday night that they changed their mind. It was quite the rollercoaster week. Thankfully we are not upside down in our house. We don't have to sell. We have looked at houses 3 times since receiving that offer. I am in love with a subdivision and there is a house in that subdivision that we could get that is not even on the market yet BUT and a big BUT, it has a pool. Yikes! So unless we found some unbelievable pool cover or could build a deck over it, that house isn't happening. We found another that is really nice but currently about $60,000 overpriced. :) So we will keep looking until our house sells. The joys of house selling...

Offer Extended

WHoooo! We received an offer on the house. We did counteroffer last night so here's to hoping that everything meets their approval. I actually expect them to counter again. And hopefully us just one more time. If everything goes through, we would close July 28th and have until August 5th to be gone. That isn't alot of time my peeps and especially considering that we have not shopped Tuscaloosa homes yet. Yeah, so a little anxious over here. D tells me this morning that I should probably read the story of Abraham today and how God provided for him. One example of why D is my shining star. He is always there to remind me what truly is important and where my faith should lie. Anyway, getting a little emotional here thinking about all the potential changes that could take place around here rather quickly.

Sidenote: D is big dogging it today. He is flying with the president of his company and 2 others to Dallas on the Corporate jet for some media training. He should be back tonight. A little anxious about that also. :) Please pray for us.

Still here

My blog needs a serious makeover. I'll try to get around to doing that. I am getting worse and worse about posting things. I guess that is what 2 kiddos will do for you.

Update on us -

1) Our house is on the market. Wooohooo! We talked to the realtors on May 31st and by Thursday we had a sign in our yard and Saturday we were listed online. We have had 3 showings. Two of them still have a house to sell themselves and one it was an older couple that needed a larger kitchen. I am not very good at this waiting around thing but hopefully it won't take longer then a year to sell. However 2 other houses similar to ours took 1 year and a half to sell. Yikes! Thankfully we don't have to go anywhere so we will sit and wait patiently. :)

2) Mom and Dad are currently in the process of getting the lakehouse sheetrocked. Woohooo! It is starting to look like a real house now. We are going to have SO much fun up there I can hardly stand it. I see not only summers spent up there but New Year's and birthdays and Fall football games. You name it!

3) The kids, mom, and myself are headed out to CO in August to visit with my brother and family. So excited to meet little Campbell who is a spitting image of my brother (see pic below, that is him with his big dog sister Torrey). Love it!

4) Someone wrote on facebook today that there are 10 Saturdays left until Alabama football. Can I get a ROLL TIDE?!?!? I believe Don and I have the same seats we had last year. Pretty pumped about that!

5) Really we don't have a whole lot more going on besides still in the process of potty training Kate. She is very close if I could just direct more of my energies to her. :)

I will try to start updating more weekly. Hope you all are having a GREAT summer!