Our House

House

So since I last posted a ton more happened. The sellers countered our offer, we countered back, they rejected our offer. We then went to the house and relooked at it to see if we really liked it as much as we remembered and again felt like it was the right house for us. So that night we told our agent we wanted to submit a new offer and the next morning (which happened to be Thanksgiving) they accepted our offer!!! We are totally stoked and can't believe that this is going to be our home in just a few short weeks as long as everything checks out with inspections and closing. Ok so I don't have a picture of the outside of the house so I am including two pictures of the kitchen since Darren and I like it so much. Some people might not understand the two-tone look of the cabinets but we love it and it looks so good in person, pictures really don't do it justice. We originally went down to Utah thinking we would just stay Monday night and hoped that we could at least get the ball rolling with the home buying but didn't imagine we would stay almost a whole week and come back to Idaho with an accepted offer on a house and signing a bunch of paperwork. We are so thankful for Darren's brother and sister-in-law for letting us stay at their place. Jen took care of Emmie almost everyday for us since we were such basket cases and trying to get as much as we could get done in such a short time. We had so much fun staying up late playing games and talking to them and can't wait to move down there and be closer to them. Emmie didn't want to leave her cousins and was so sad as we drove away and kept asking us if she could live with them. We are coming into even more stress as this semester is coming to an end and now with getting all the needed paperwork done with this house but at the same time feel so blessed and at peace with where our lives seem to be leading us right now, we truly couldn't ask for more. Ok sure we can, a truck load of money would help a lot right now, lol, but other than that life is great.

So much going on!!!

So much has been going on in the last couple days that our heads are spinning. We accepted a job offer down in Utah with Darren's dad and brother and their new company. We are so excited to work with them and can't wait to start. We are down in Utah right now actually and have been looking at houses for the last 2 days. Yesterday totally sucked and we were so discouraged thinking there was nothing good out there for what we wanted to pay. Then today we were looking at houses for about 6 1/2 hours and the very last house we saw we loved. We just new it was one we were interested in as soon as we were walking around in it. Even after we left the house we couldn't stop talking about it. Well Darren and I thought it over for a little while and then went out to dinner with our realtor who happens to be Darren's old mission companions fiance'. At dinner we told her that we wanted to make an offer on the place. So she went out to her car and got the papers and we signed away and are now awaiting the response of the owners. We will know by tomorrow at 1pm if they accepted, rejected, or countered our offer. We are so scared and excited at the same time and can't wait to start our new life in Utah in January. Cross your fingers that we can make this work out and we will be home owners soon!

Sick Babies

Oh my what fun we have been having here lately. So Allison started getting sick on Friday and by Saturday night she was freaking me out so bad with how she sounded and how she kept gagging and choking that I took her to the E.R. I would have tried her doctors office first but it was closed. So her and I spent a couple hours there while they did a throat and face X-ray to make sure there was nothing causing her to choke in her throat and also seeing if her sinuses are developed properly. Well she checked out ok in those areas so they told me just to watch her close and sleep upright with her and give her Tylenol every 4 hours for her fever. A couple hours after we got home we were sitting on the couch and she was asleep so I placed her in her infant seat, she was in there for only a little bit before she started gagging so I picked her up and she proceeded to throw up more than I have ever seen a child do. Luckily I was able to hold her mostly over her seat so it didn't get everywhere. Well then she got all shaky so I called the hospital back and asked what else I should be doing. They told me to take her off breast milk for the night and give her pedialite. That night sucked trying to sleep. She woke up every hour choking and gagging and I would try to use a bulb syringe to get any mucus I could out of her mouth and nose but with little outcome. Sunday she still sounded horrible but seemed to be doing better until that evening when she decided to reenact her previous throw up episode but this time all over me. So we knew we were in for another long night. We decided to try to have her sleep in her bassinet but have it propped up on books instead of out on the couch again. I guess that ended up being a good idea since she had breathing issues all night long and ended up gagging and choking yet again which turned into projectile vomit all over the bassinet and herself instead of the floor and couch. Monday she was doing pretty well and I knew the doctors couldn't do anything for her so we just hung out all day. Well that's also the day that Emmie woke up worse off. Emmie had been telling us she didn't feel well all weekend but it wasn't until Monday morning that she had a bad fever and was getting even more congested. So today we are again laying low and resting and dealing with two fevers and snotty noses. Allison still sounds really junky in her sinuses but she isn't so lethargic so I think she is on the mend but I think we have just begun with Emmie. Hope you have enjoyed this long post about our woes. And since we haven't been out much in the last couple days here are some pictures of what we have been doing...sleeping when we can.

Emmie's Birthday

Emmie got two really small little parties this year. My mom and Derek were here and left our house on the 5th so we celebrated it that day with presents from them and Emmie got a little chocolate mousse cake all to herself. Then because Darren was out of town that day we had another little celebration on her actual birthday (the 7th) with Darren and myself and my brother Richie.

Here is Emmie all dressed up in her present from Darren and I. (a chest full of dress-up clothes)

Funny video

Darren and I were dinking around on youtube and found this video. It cracks us up but maybe we are a little immature.

Difficult decisions

We don't have many pictures to show of our last two weeks of not posting but that's because we have been so busy. This picture is of Emmie in time-out. I can't even remember what got her in there in the first place but I thought she looked so funny sitting there waiting to get out. She is just so bored and trying to push her luck by having only her feet in the corner instead of her rear. Darren and I so need a vacation right now. Our time has been so consumed with thinking about what we will be doing in just a little over a month when Darren graduates that we are going nuts and need a break. We now have it narrowed down to two places; Salt Lake or L.A. We thought this choice of where we would take a job was going to be so much easier than it has turned out to be. We have two great offers and can't seem to come to a conclusion of where to go. We have been able to sift Phoenix and Boise out of our choices but have yet to come to a conclusion on the two we are now faced with. We can't seem to go wrong with either place but it's just a matter of choosing the best one for us right now. So cross your fingers we will be able to make up our minds sometime soon before we end up loosing them with how much thought we are putting into this whole thing.

Other than thinking about jobs we had our Halloween like everyone else. Here is a picture of Emmie and my niece Joanna on Halloween.

This picture of Allison makes me laugh every time I see it. My mom bought this for Emmie but we had to try it out on Allie. This can be early payback for all the times she will tell me that she hates me when she's a teenager.