House hunting, the weekend, and babies

So I'm beginning to wonder if we are ever going to find a house! It is so frustrating looking and not finding anything. I guess we really haven't been looking for that long but it seems like an eternity already. The market has been kinda slow lately and not much has came on the market in our price range. I've been getting desperate and started to look in St. Clair. We have looked at a few in St. Clair but we haven't seen anything great that we would be willing to move to St. Clair for. One came on the market today in Villa Ridge but it only have 1 bathroom :(. We will still probably look at it though. Maybe it has the rough in downstairs for another...We will see. So this weekend was okay. Friday we went to Jacob's and watched the boys play a game they made up. They call it beer ball and it involves hitting skunk beer and filled plastic bottles with baseball bats and golf clubs...We didn't end up getting to bed until 5am because Robbie rolled his truck and Doug and the rest of the boys had to go pull him out. So it ended up being a fairly eventful night....Sucks for Robbie that he rolled his truck though... Well i'm still trying to get pregnant. Right now it's kind of a shot in the dark because I have no idea when I ovulate because of the messed up period and having 3 periods in 1 month. So if I haven't had a period by the middle of July i will test again and we will see!!

No luck so far...

Well we've been looking at more houses with no luck...Lately there hasn't really been a lot coming onto the market in our price range. On Friday we looked at two in Union and one in St. Clair. We liked the one in St. Clair but I think it was priced too high plus we don't really want to live in St. Clair. It would be our last resort if we absolutely couldn't find anything else. So on Friday Ken scheduled the appointments 1/2 hour apart. On the last house the selling agent had to be there because the people who own the house have a lot of electronics there. We were running way ahead of schedule so we were trying to kill some time. Well Ken's main business is buying lots, building houses, and selling them. He has a house he is building in Woodland Oaks in Union so he took us over to see it. He told us he would sell it to us for what he has in it which is a steal! This house is beautiful! It has 3 bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths. It is a split foyer and has hardwood floors, a two car garage, and it is full brick. I took lots of pictures but they are on my home computer so I will post them when I get home. We are strongly considering it because we know a deal like this will probably NEVER come along again. We are going to continue to look at other houses and in two weeks when Doug gets his other paycheck stub we are going to go to the bank and officially get approved for a loan to see how much they will actually loan us. We have a while to wait for the one Ken is building because it isn't even finished and he isn't in that big of a hurry inless of couse we say we want to buy it....

We didn't get it :(

So we didn't get the house. We were the second highest bidders. They said if something falls through they would give us a call. I'm disappointed but in a way i'm kind of glad. I don't think the house had much resale so we wouldn't be able to sell it for much more than we bought it for. Everything happens for a reason though. I guess this just wasn't meant to be. I'm sure we will end up finding something even better. I was just so ready to move NOW. I'm ready to get out of our small apartment and have more space and a yard for Kitty. Ken said there is nothing to look at right now so we have to wait till something else comes on the market which is another disappointment that we can't start looking again right away. I guess we will continue to watch the other house in Union to see if he drops the price. Otherwise we will move on to something else....

We put an offer in!!

Well we put an offer in on a house in Villa Ridge. It is a foreclosure and if we get it we will be getting a really good deal. I'm disappointed that there are at least 2 other offers in on it so our chances of getting it are considerably lower. It has a huge yard. It's almost an acre lot. It has 3 bedrooms and 1 bath with the rough in for another bathroom downstairs. The kitchen is updated so i'm excited about that. It already has a dishwasher, microwave, and water softner so that's exciting that we don't have to spend the money for those things. The neighbors seem really nice we talked to some of them. 2 of our neighbors are cops so it is a pretty safe neighborhood. There are little things that need to be fixed on the inside like little pieces of trim in various places, a new paint job, and the basement needs to be fixed at the bottom of the stairs where a little water got to the wall and carpet so it needs to be replaced. Other than that it is virturally maintainance free.

I'm trying not to get my hopes up but it's so hard not to. I really hope we get it though. I really like the house a lot!!

House hunting and babies

Well this is my first blog. I was driving to work this morning and out of the blue decided I wanted to create a blog. My life is far from interesting but I wanted a blog anyway. It's a good place to express all my thoughts. Maybe not the most private place but it works for my needs.

So Doug and I just started looking at houses this week. The first house we looked at on Monday was a foreclosed home in Union. It looked really nice from the outside from far way so we called our realtor to get a closer look at it. Let me tell you it is not at all what I expected. Upon walking inside I knew right away it is not what I wanted not to mention it was very small with no basement and only one bathroom. We got done looking at the inside and went to look at the outside more. The more we looked the more structural damage we found. Plus they had recently re sided it so we figured they were probably trying to cover up more problems with the house.

So after the first disappointment we decided to look at more houses on Tuesday. The first house we looked at on Tuesday we really liked. It is a split foyer in Union with 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, and a 2 car garage.

It is perfect for our size needs. The kitchen could be a little bigger but other than that it's great. We would have to build a deck onto the back because the guy that owns it now tore it off and was going to build it back on but never got around to it. He has a few other unfinished projects also but he started to fix it up and it is starting to look great. It is a little more than we were wanting to pay so we are going to put an offer on it in a few weeks and see if he accepts. In the meantime we are going to look at other houses just to make sure this is the one we want. Currently there are no other houses in our price range and location that we haven't already looked at.

So enough with the house stuff. We are still kind of trying for a baby. My cycle is a little off because I found out I was pregnant and then lost it. So I don't know if we will be able to conceive this month. The more I think about it though the more I am okay with that. I've kind of been thinking of waiting till about August or when we are moved into a house. All I know is I definitely want a baby sometime in 2009. So we still have a lot of time.

I guess that's all I have to say for now. Updates on the house situation to come....