The House

This is our future house. The exterior in this picture wasn't finished yet, but you get the idea. Now that the condo is under contract, its more of a reality that the house will be ours by the end of March!!

SOLD!!!!!!

Yesterday we got an offer from an couple on our condo and we totally accepted it!!! We should close on that mid March and our realtors are going to try and have us close on our house around the same time. YAY!!!

Updates

Hey everyone....thought I've give a quick update on anything new. So, most of you can tell we are trying to sell the condo so we can get into our new house that is just sitting, waiting for us to move in! We had a buyer come this week that loved it, and they're coming back tomorrow and from what I've heard from my realtor...this might be the one to finally put an offer down!! Hooray!!

In other news....I got a promotion at work and I'm now a Help Desk Team Lead (a supervisor) and thats been great. The other team leads are great to work with and I feel like I've been able to contribute a lot of my thoughts on how to make things run smoother in certain areas of our job. I'm still working a few nights at Naartjie as well and things are great there.

Justus' Sparta 96 boys team got accepted to the biggest international tournament in the US in April, the Dallas Cup. So, we will be in Dallas, TX the first week of April for this week long tournament. The best teams from the country and tons of international teams come to play in this huge tournament. Justus is so excited to have this opportunity for his kids because they've been working towards this kind of recognition for a long time. Even if they don't make it out of their pool, its an honor for them to even be invited to such a prestigious tournament! I'm so excited for them!

Last bit of news that I can think of is that Nic & Joyce are pregnant! Congrats to the future parents of my first niece/nephew!! They are very early in their pregnancy and are due in the middle/end of August. As for us in baby news....I finally went to a doctor to see if there's anything wrong with me and we should have some answers in the upcoming weeks. So I'll keep you all posted.

Thanks for all your love and support with us in the last few months...we've definitely been grateful for all the help our friends and family have given us, so thanks to you all! We love you guys!

Showings

So....after we reduced the price of the condo we didn't immediately get any showings. But, last week we had 5 in one week! So, thats awesome...too bad we haven't heard any feed back from 4 of them so we are still just waiting to see what will happen. I keep it optimistic so I'm not stressing....I'm just hoping people are just getting their finances in order so they can make an offer! We shall see....I'll keep you updated if anything finally happens. But, we think with the new price we can hopefully get it sold in the next month. Cross your fingers right?!

TWILIGHT!!!!!

So, totally went to the midnight showing of Twilight at the District...loved it!! I went with Gilbs, Johnny, Mom and aunt Fralinka (yes...those are nicknames).

***EDITED***HUGE UPDATE!!!!! Exciting but Stressfull!

Okay...so....our HUGE UPDATE was a false alarm...our realtor sent us an email saying our house was going to be done by December 4th...and our superintendant had told us a week and a half before that it would be done end of December. So...being stressed about this conflicting information I contacted our contact at Holmes Homes and he said that our closing dates are between December 19th-23rd...so we should hopefully close before Christmas but at least its not as soon as we thought.

As for our condo going up for sale...that will be tomorrow...so seriously...any interested buyers check us out at utahhomes.com!

End of December...what?!

So on Thursday, October 30th, Justus and I did our pre-sheet rock walk through with our superintendent of our build job. We asked him what he thought the dealine was for our house to be done. We've been thinking maybe January at the earliest or February....he laid it on us

END OF DECEMBER!!

We were totally shocked, but really excited. What a great anniversary/Christmas present that could be this year! After the walk through everything looked great. We went back this weekend and wanted to see the progress and this is what we found....

(I have a bunch of pictures of when it was all framed, but I figured unless you really know what the layout is, you probably wouldn't know what I was showing you)

Above is the living room off the entry way and also the front closet next to the stairsIf you continue through the front room you'll see our family room and dining area (can't really see the dining space I know)

This is our kitchen

Here's a better shot of the dining area and the family room and the doors to our side yard

I know...this is a terrible picture of the master bedroom....I wasn't standing in a great place so the room looks tiny!!

When you walk in the master bedroom we have a little "knook" for a table or shelves and then our walk-in closet

This is wear our double vanity will be....I accidentally deleted the picture of the rest of the master bath...so I'll hopefully get another one soon

This is the second bath upstairs

This room is going to be our office (again a terrible angle that I took the picture from)

This is the third bedroom for whatever

This is the upstairs hallway. At the end of the hall is the master bedroom door, off to the left is the stairs and the doorway to the laundry room

This is an exciting picture! They already started our exterior!! The house that is about a week ahead of ours had their exterior painted last week. So hopefully by my next post you'll get to see our colors!!