Home is where your rump rests

No truer words have ever been spoken - at least by a Disney cartoon warthog.

We've been going non-stop since I can't remember when and we've still got about another month of this craziness.

But to briefly attempt to catch you up, here I go.

The end of March I made a trip back to Texas to see family and attend my little brother's C.A.R. state conference as state president. It was in San Antonio, so I got to stay at the historic Menger Hotel and eat some yum-ee Mexican food. I got to then go back to the hometown to visit with the family some more and see my grandmother.

Then a couple of weeks later the hubby and I both traveled back the Texas, this time for the brother-in-law's wedding in Midland. It was quite a trip - complete with 5 hour detour to Oklahoma City's finest runway. But it was a great wedding and we made it back home in one piece.

And that got us home for a few more days here with friends and the hubby finishing up his medical school career. All of it. Done. What a glorious day.

Then there was some more packing and the mother-of-all yard sales. Ugh. It's done and over and what when out the door to sell most likely didn't make its way back in. We made a handsome penny or two and then donated the rest of our unwanted treasures to the Union Mission Thrift Store.

That will bring us to this past Monday, when we flew back West to Idaho to find a house for us to move into come the end of this month. Well, we flew into Salt Lake City since it's the nearest large airport and much cheaper than the local airport in Idaho Falls. It's about a 2 1/2 hour drive.

Tuesday we met with the mortgage lady and did lots of paperwork to get everything in line for us to buy a house. Wednesday we looked at houses and Thursday was more house looking - with the added bonus of sending out an offer. And come about 10:45 Thursday night, we got word the builder accepted our crazy-low offer and is covering our closing costs! Seriously, the guy's got to be losing about $10,000 from the asking price and paying for the closing. Yea for us!

I'm including some pictures below - with the side note that while we toured the house I didn't think there would be any way we'd be getting this house, so I took no photos. It was VERY out of our price range and to lowball an offer AND get closing costs was not going to happen in my mind. But it did and I had no photos of the house we're in a contract to buy. So, we drove out to the house before we left town Friday for pictures. They're all take from outside since we couldn't get it - so pardon the dirt and blurs.

And so, without further ado, here's 1427 Kiersten - our (hopeful) new house! Pray everything goes well for us getting everything together and the closing goes according to plan.


















And one last one... the view from our back yard.