Okay so I told this story to my friend Kim and she said I have to blog about it because it is a super awesome story, and I completely agree!
Yesterday Steven and I took off of work half a day so we could go and close on our house, but unfortunately that didn't happen. Well obviously this irritated us both and our nerves were a little worn. At around 3:10 Steven tells me "I'm going to go and wait for Alexis at the bridge," and I said "oh wait and I'll go with you." Keep in mind I'm already irritated at this point in the afternoon.
We get to the bridge to wait for Alexis and we can already see some kids crossing the bridge. I noticed a group of girls at the end so I knew Alexis was with them. About that time Steven asked me if I could see Alexis and I said "No, but she's probably with the group of girls at the end," and I looked up to find them. At that exact moment we both saw these two boys go running by the group of girls and we both saw one of them trip a girl. As soon as the girl fell we both knew it was Alexis, and I became seriously enraged. Pregnancy hormones, mixed with stress, and the fact that I was already irritated about the closing did nothing to help those boys yesterday afternoon.
Before I could even think twice I jumped out of the car and ran to the end of the bridge to stop those two boys. They were running and assumed that I was just waiting for one of the other kids, but I jumped in front of them and blocked their path and immediately tore into them. I demanded to know which one of them had tripped Alexis and they both sat there and lied and said they didn't do anything, which only made me more angry. Do they think adults are stupid, or do they just think we don't watch? So I tore into them more about lying to me because I had watched them do it. Needless to say I was seeing RED!! They are lucky that I know not to put my hands on kids or else I would have throttled them both and then drug them back to their homes and laid into their parents too. However I didn't do any of that, I just yelled at them more about the fact that I watched one of them do it and not to lie to me and to keep their hands off my kids and to leave her alone, and to stay far away from her.
I finally let them go and went up to Alexis (who didn't even know I was there or what had just happened between me and those boys) and I wrapped my arms around her and walked her to the car. When we got in the car Steven asked me what I said to those boys because he could tell I was telling them off. I think it absolutely shocked Alexis that I would tear into anyone on her behalf because she was like "really, Mom you did that and you said that!" I felt like I was a mommy tiger and those boys had just tried to get my cub or something. Those boys are seriously lucky I didn't do more than yell at them. Steven and I both told Alexis that if they try to mess with her any more that she has our permission to fight back. That may not have been the best piece of advice but we don't want her to let people walk all over her either.
Another reason these boys bothered me so much was because last week another Mother waited on the bridge to talk to them about tripping the girls and messing with them. Seriously what is it going to take to get them to be respectful and to leave other kids alone? Maybe some jail time?
So for future reference don't mess with a pregnant womans kids! (Or any womans kids)
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Home
Breathe.....breathe.....it's just a 30 year commitment.....
I can't wait for lunch time! We are leaving work at lunch to go and close on our house! And tonight we are going to start moving things over to the new place and begin painting.
Alexis and Steven already have plans to eat at a place in The Colony called "The Cereal Bar" on Saturday morning. I'm not sure if that means we are moving our beds Friday night, or if they are going to be at the new place sleeping on air mattresses. I'm not sleeping on an air mattress being this far along in the pregnancy, I would never be able to get up. (I'm like a beached whale sometimes! lol)
I can't wait for lunch time! We are leaving work at lunch to go and close on our house! And tonight we are going to start moving things over to the new place and begin painting.
Alexis and Steven already have plans to eat at a place in The Colony called "The Cereal Bar" on Saturday morning. I'm not sure if that means we are moving our beds Friday night, or if they are going to be at the new place sleeping on air mattresses. I'm not sleeping on an air mattress being this far along in the pregnancy, I would never be able to get up. (I'm like a beached whale sometimes! lol)
Monday, October 12, 2009
House Hunt Part 4
Okay, okay I know that I haven't updated about the house hunt in a while, but we have had a lot going on recently.
We are way beyond the house hunting part of this process. We actually found a house back in September that is exactly the same floor plan as the second house we put a bid on. Naturally we put a bid on this house and we are now in the final stages of buying this house. When I say final I mean final like we are closing tomorrow as far as I know.
How crazy is that???? I'm going to own a house as of tomorrow!!!!! I'm not old enough or mature enough to own a house. Plus I don't know the first thing about taking care of a house. This is the scariest most exciting thing I've done in a while (other than get married and pregnant in the same year).
If everything works out as planned we are going to close tomorrow and begin moving things to the house immediately. We've kind of decided on what color paint we are going to put in Emmett's room and possibly the living room, so we'll get the paint tomorrow. If we have the paint and everything then maybe Steven's Dad can go and get some things started if he gets off work early an this week. I love Steven's parents! They do so much for us. Steven's plan is to paint Emmett's room while Steven's Dad works on the wall in Lexie's room. There is one wall that is covered in paneling that we are going to tear out and redo. We may have to put in some sheet rock and then re-texture the wall before we can paint her room. Luckily Steven's Dad has the tools needed to do all of that. Those are the two rooms we are going to start with. After that we'll be painting our room and the two living areas.
I did see at Garden Ridge this weekend some art work that would be sooo cute in the kitchen. Right now we just need to get the bedrooms taken care of so the kids will have a place to sleep. We can work on the rest of the house as we go.
I'll update again soon (maybe). ;)
We are way beyond the house hunting part of this process. We actually found a house back in September that is exactly the same floor plan as the second house we put a bid on. Naturally we put a bid on this house and we are now in the final stages of buying this house. When I say final I mean final like we are closing tomorrow as far as I know.
How crazy is that???? I'm going to own a house as of tomorrow!!!!! I'm not old enough or mature enough to own a house. Plus I don't know the first thing about taking care of a house. This is the scariest most exciting thing I've done in a while (other than get married and pregnant in the same year).
If everything works out as planned we are going to close tomorrow and begin moving things to the house immediately. We've kind of decided on what color paint we are going to put in Emmett's room and possibly the living room, so we'll get the paint tomorrow. If we have the paint and everything then maybe Steven's Dad can go and get some things started if he gets off work early an this week. I love Steven's parents! They do so much for us. Steven's plan is to paint Emmett's room while Steven's Dad works on the wall in Lexie's room. There is one wall that is covered in paneling that we are going to tear out and redo. We may have to put in some sheet rock and then re-texture the wall before we can paint her room. Luckily Steven's Dad has the tools needed to do all of that. Those are the two rooms we are going to start with. After that we'll be painting our room and the two living areas.
I did see at Garden Ridge this weekend some art work that would be sooo cute in the kitchen. Right now we just need to get the bedrooms taken care of so the kids will have a place to sleep. We can work on the rest of the house as we go.
I'll update again soon (maybe). ;)
Week 36 of Pregnancy
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/weekbyweek/week36.htm
Okay so here we are current. Again I have to put in a link to the actually website instead of being able to just copy the info.
Things are moving at a fast pace now. Technically speaking I could have Emmett at any point now and he would most likely be perfectly okay. I kind of want him to wait just a little bit longer so we at least have the house and his room set up. I'm about the size of whale (or at least I think so) and getting up and down and rolling over are near impossible. I've also been experiencing this weird thing where my hands swell and they get really hot and then my joints start hurting. I mean they hurt so bad that it wakes me up in the middle of the night. Definitely going to ask my doctor about that on Thursday when I see her.
Speaking of my doctor that brings me to the next thing which is that I am officially in countdown mode. This week I start my weekly appointments which will continue until little Emmett makes his appearance.
Okay so here we are current. Again I have to put in a link to the actually website instead of being able to just copy the info.
Things are moving at a fast pace now. Technically speaking I could have Emmett at any point now and he would most likely be perfectly okay. I kind of want him to wait just a little bit longer so we at least have the house and his room set up. I'm about the size of whale (or at least I think so) and getting up and down and rolling over are near impossible. I've also been experiencing this weird thing where my hands swell and they get really hot and then my joints start hurting. I mean they hurt so bad that it wakes me up in the middle of the night. Definitely going to ask my doctor about that on Thursday when I see her.
Speaking of my doctor that brings me to the next thing which is that I am officially in countdown mode. This week I start my weekly appointments which will continue until little Emmett makes his appearance.
Week 35 of Pregnancy
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/weekbyweek/week35.htm
Here is the link for week 35. Still having issues.
Here is the link for week 35. Still having issues.
Week 34 of Pregnancy
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/weekbyweek/week34.htm
Sorry guys for some reason I can copy in the updates. Here is a link to week 34 of pregnancy.
Sorry guys for some reason I can copy in the updates. Here is a link to week 34 of pregnancy.
Monday, September 21, 2009
House Hunting Part 3
So again we began the hunt for homes to go look at over the weekend. We decided this time that we were going to go on Friday night the 18th, to beat people going on Saturday and Sunday. Steven had a theory that the reason we weren't getting these bids was because weren't going to look at homes until Sunday afternoon and everyone else was going on Saturday. Our finance man's theory is that people are realizing that if you don't have a bid on the table by Nov 1st you aren't going to make the November 30th cutoff for the $8000 tax credit for first time home buyers.
Well there just weren't any new ones that came on the market last week so we decided to go and look at the house that was under construction. This house is on Ballard St in the Colony. We already knew we liked the rest of the house we just wanted to see how the two kids rooms turned out. What these people did when they moved in was they tore down the wall between the two smaller rooms to create one big room. Well in this housing market no one wants a two bedroom house they want a three bedroom house, so they weren't getting any offers. Hence why they were doing the construction put the wall back up. They owners did a great job of putting the wall back up and painting and they even put new carpet in all three bedrooms. We discussed the house a little bit and decided to go ahead and put an offer on it since we did like it. We drove to the local Chick-fil-A and filled out all the paperwork (for a third time) and then we left thinking we would have good news the next day.
Our Saturday was jam packed with fun stuff to do. We went to Steven's parent's house to help paint some baseboards and finish up the deck before the baby shower next weekend. Well Steven's Dad got called out on a job for work, so we went to Home Depot to get the paint so we could go ahead and get started. We painted the baseboards in the dining room and the laundry room, and the door frame going from the kitchen into the laundry room. While we were at Home Depot we got a little excited and picked up some color sample pages so we could start getting some ideas of what we would like to change in the house on Ballard St, because we knew we had it in the bag. We showed Steven's Mom some of those colors and she loved one of them so much that she decided she wanted it in her dining room as an accent wall, so our painting job got a little bigger on Saturday. We had lunch and then Steven and his Dad went and got the paint for the dining room wall, and some paint for the laundry room walls too. Needless to say we have a beautiful accent wall in the dining room, but that meant his Mom needed new curtains to go in there. While Steven and his Mom were out looking for new curtains he got the phone call from our realtor.
She called almost in tears to let us know that apparently someone had gone and looked at the house on Ballard St Friday morning and had put in an offer and that the sellers had picked their offer. Again, why didn't their agent say something when ours called to schedule the viewing? Who knows, but seriously he should have especially if they had already submitted the offer! Why waste our time and money driving out there when the seller already has this other offer? Or at least he could have said what we would have needed to offer to beat it, so we didn't waste time putting in an offer that was going to be declined. Steven told me when he got back and I immediately go into this Robot mode that I have where I don't want to do anything other than what I'm currently doing. I don't' want to talk, I don't want to stop, I don't want to be disturbed. But when you are in a house full of people and a couple of them are completely annoying you it's hard to be in that mode.
About 30 minutes after Steven got back and gave me the bad news we got another call from our realtor saying that she had just found a house in The Colony that had the exact same floor plan as the second one we had put an offer on. How there are soo many houses out there that have Doppelgangers I don't know, but they do. She said that if we wanted to we could go out right then and look at it, so we decided to go. Dad had put lasagna in the over and it wasn't going to be ready for an hour so we were good on time. We hopped in the car and headed up to see this new house that neither of us had seen on any of the lists we had received. This house has the exact same floor plan as the one with the skylights and it bright and open and airy, so again we already know that we like the floor plan.
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/4820-Ash-Glen-Lane_The-Colony_TX_75056_1111722676
Here is a link to the properties info. The pictures don't do it justice. We might want to paint some and we'll need appliances probably, but we can handle that. Plus one of the rooms has paneling in it that we are going to have to remove and texture and paint. Otherwise it's great! The added family room is fantastic too! We've already got it planned out to have for the kids play room in one half and the computer are in the other. Well if everything goes as planned.
We did put a bid on this house Saturday night, and we have heard back from them with some concessions. So we have countered and submitted that information last night along with our earnest money. The earnest money is the good faith money that you put down to show them that you are serious about buying the house and you most likely won't flake out on them. Once we get down to closing that money will be put towards the down payment. We have finally reached the next level in the negotiations process. We are meeting with an inspector Tuesday night to see what he has found on the property and to go over all of that jazz. We have 7 days to finish up all of this stuff and back out if we want to, but I don't think we will unless the inspector finds some pretty major things. The seller is actually putting on a brand new roof this week, and he's finishing up the repairs in one of the bedrooms and replacing the carpet. Oh yeah it has new carpet through out the whole house.
For now this is where are in the house buying process. Hopefully we'll have a home to move into soon so we can get it ready for the baby.
Well there just weren't any new ones that came on the market last week so we decided to go and look at the house that was under construction. This house is on Ballard St in the Colony. We already knew we liked the rest of the house we just wanted to see how the two kids rooms turned out. What these people did when they moved in was they tore down the wall between the two smaller rooms to create one big room. Well in this housing market no one wants a two bedroom house they want a three bedroom house, so they weren't getting any offers. Hence why they were doing the construction put the wall back up. They owners did a great job of putting the wall back up and painting and they even put new carpet in all three bedrooms. We discussed the house a little bit and decided to go ahead and put an offer on it since we did like it. We drove to the local Chick-fil-A and filled out all the paperwork (for a third time) and then we left thinking we would have good news the next day.
Our Saturday was jam packed with fun stuff to do. We went to Steven's parent's house to help paint some baseboards and finish up the deck before the baby shower next weekend. Well Steven's Dad got called out on a job for work, so we went to Home Depot to get the paint so we could go ahead and get started. We painted the baseboards in the dining room and the laundry room, and the door frame going from the kitchen into the laundry room. While we were at Home Depot we got a little excited and picked up some color sample pages so we could start getting some ideas of what we would like to change in the house on Ballard St, because we knew we had it in the bag. We showed Steven's Mom some of those colors and she loved one of them so much that she decided she wanted it in her dining room as an accent wall, so our painting job got a little bigger on Saturday. We had lunch and then Steven and his Dad went and got the paint for the dining room wall, and some paint for the laundry room walls too. Needless to say we have a beautiful accent wall in the dining room, but that meant his Mom needed new curtains to go in there. While Steven and his Mom were out looking for new curtains he got the phone call from our realtor.
She called almost in tears to let us know that apparently someone had gone and looked at the house on Ballard St Friday morning and had put in an offer and that the sellers had picked their offer. Again, why didn't their agent say something when ours called to schedule the viewing? Who knows, but seriously he should have especially if they had already submitted the offer! Why waste our time and money driving out there when the seller already has this other offer? Or at least he could have said what we would have needed to offer to beat it, so we didn't waste time putting in an offer that was going to be declined. Steven told me when he got back and I immediately go into this Robot mode that I have where I don't want to do anything other than what I'm currently doing. I don't' want to talk, I don't want to stop, I don't want to be disturbed. But when you are in a house full of people and a couple of them are completely annoying you it's hard to be in that mode.
About 30 minutes after Steven got back and gave me the bad news we got another call from our realtor saying that she had just found a house in The Colony that had the exact same floor plan as the second one we had put an offer on. How there are soo many houses out there that have Doppelgangers I don't know, but they do. She said that if we wanted to we could go out right then and look at it, so we decided to go. Dad had put lasagna in the over and it wasn't going to be ready for an hour so we were good on time. We hopped in the car and headed up to see this new house that neither of us had seen on any of the lists we had received. This house has the exact same floor plan as the one with the skylights and it bright and open and airy, so again we already know that we like the floor plan.
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/4820-Ash-Glen-Lane_The-Colony_TX_75056_1111722676
Here is a link to the properties info. The pictures don't do it justice. We might want to paint some and we'll need appliances probably, but we can handle that. Plus one of the rooms has paneling in it that we are going to have to remove and texture and paint. Otherwise it's great! The added family room is fantastic too! We've already got it planned out to have for the kids play room in one half and the computer are in the other. Well if everything goes as planned.
We did put a bid on this house Saturday night, and we have heard back from them with some concessions. So we have countered and submitted that information last night along with our earnest money. The earnest money is the good faith money that you put down to show them that you are serious about buying the house and you most likely won't flake out on them. Once we get down to closing that money will be put towards the down payment. We have finally reached the next level in the negotiations process. We are meeting with an inspector Tuesday night to see what he has found on the property and to go over all of that jazz. We have 7 days to finish up all of this stuff and back out if we want to, but I don't think we will unless the inspector finds some pretty major things. The seller is actually putting on a brand new roof this week, and he's finishing up the repairs in one of the bedrooms and replacing the carpet. Oh yeah it has new carpet through out the whole house.
For now this is where are in the house buying process. Hopefully we'll have a home to move into soon so we can get it ready for the baby.
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