Its so true what they say about family.. that they will always be there when you need them most. We love and appreciate all of our family and all that they do for us. We also just want to thank you all for the support that you give us.

WOO HOOO!! We finally made it into the house. We have now been in the house for almost a week. (we still have only spent 2 nights here though.) What an adventure it was getting here. I'm not sure what is worse at this point.. packing everything up and trying to stay organized or trying to unpack and find a new home for everything. We haven't finished unpacking a single room 100%. We have 3 rooms that are about 90% done. I have to hope that maybe January brings the time to finish at least one room!!

Wow.. Had we known that buying a house was going to be this bad I'm not sure we would have gone on this venture. They have now said that we cant close this week because there have been problems with the loan. So now they are saying next Monday. This means if we close monday we will be moving on Mon-Thur nights after work and leaving Friday to go see the parents for two days. Im just ready to be done and not deal with this stress anymore. I feel like I'm going to have a major breakdown!!!

Well its been a while since we have posted any updates. Most of what we have been doing during the last few weeks is working endless on the house. We started with a deep cleaning. We had my sister Bre come over and help scrub walls, cabinets and anything else we asked of her.. what a great help she was.. I will be forever grateful for the help she gave. We also had our friends Aaron and Ambree come over and help one Saturday. Again I don't know how we can ever thank them enough for the help. Over Thanksgiving we got a lot of help from my parents, Grandparents and little brother. They brought down our new stove, microwave and mini fridge. They also helped get the floor ready for carpeting while fixing the hot water heater and dishwasher. It was so great to receive their help and just to see them again. We don't get to visit as much as we would like. We also had a great Thanksgiving. It was so cool to have 3 generations cooking one Thanksgiving meal.

Over all I feel that buying a house has been the most trying experience for me and Trent. There has been a lot of emotion (mostly on my part). But for every dark tunnel there is a light at the end. It is finally looking like we will actually be closing on the house within the next week. We did everything the appraiser told us we needed to fix.We painted outside and had carpet installed upstairs (which looks fabulous), we replaced the stove, microwave and fridge and fixed the dishwasher and hot water heater.

I am just so ready to finally move, this whole living out of boxes is just not working anymore. While we have packed a lot of our apartment somedays it feels like we haven't even began to pack. But Hopefully once we pull the pictures off the wall it will kick in that we actually get to move into a place that we can call our own.

The only downfall to moving so close to Christmas means that I probably will not be pulling out any christmas decorations this year. This just means I get to go overboard next year:)