New House!!!

On May 22 we closed on our very first home after months of frustrations! For those not aware we started looking for a house in November but very casually as we were told we needed 2 paycheck stubs when Eric started working full time in January. Brent Harvey, the scoutmaster Eric worked with in the ward offered to facilitate looking and thus became our realtor. We went out about once a week to about 3 homes and boy was it interesting to see what folks did with their homes. We only looked in Springville and Spanish Fork, we didn't want the growing congestion of parts north and wanted to stay close to Eric's work in Provo.

In Feb we put the first offer on a house in SF but the real estate agent put us in 2nd position and strung us along for a month! we finally moved on in March successively putting bids on 2 other homes that were closer to short sells, but someone always bid before us. The second home was particularly bitter because we had the better bid but the bank (who owned it) didn't want to deal with an FHA loan. In April we found our home and put a bid on it. We gave all the houses we looked out nicknames to keep them straight and this was the "Grandma House" because an older lady was living here alone and it was decorated as such. I wasn't first convinced that this would be our home but agreed to put a bid on it anyway (I think I was tired of the whole process). She accepted the bid and other than a little maneuvering especially on the closing date we got it. The timely fashion that we got the home was due to couple of wonderful guys who really went the extra mile for us, some miracles happened for us to actually get it.

Sat the 23 we came with some help from the old ward got the house cleaned and painted the master bedroom and Miriam's room.

The next week was filled with touch ups at the house and packing and moving. I'm sooo incredibly grateful my mom came down to help me. I never would have been able to get it all together otherwise with my pregnancy limitations. Our pattern was to clean and pack in the trailer in the morning till it got too hot then head over to the house to clean and unpack. Of course everything took a lot longer than we expected. Poor Miriam spent the majority of her naps in her car seat and we all got to bed late every night.
Then Sat May 30 was the big moving day. Eric's Dad, 2 brothers and sister-in-law came to help get everything out. Also my Aunt Jamie and Uncle Craig (who owned the trailer and already have it sold) we are so grateful for all their help it turned out to be slightly larger project than expected and not very organized unfortunately. Alls well that ends well we had everything out of the trailer and in the house (somewhere) by 4:30ish. Also Deb watched all the kids so we could move and Miriam had her first all day away from mom and G-ma experience. By all accounts she had a great day with her cousins.

Now we are just trying to organize and being worn out by the previous week it is a slow going process but it feels great to be in a house!!