Home stuff again

So this past week we had the home inspection, we are not asking for anything to be done (that helped speed up the process). What needs to be done we want to be able to pick the upgrades ourselves. This coming week the house will be appraised and we will go from there. Fingers crossed every thing works out well, that will put us that much closer to closing and moving in. We don’t have a date yet when we are to close on the house, but it will be some time mid November, which is out brokers’ best guess. I know I’m getting really antsy about moving and hope it is before thanksgiving so we can show family the house. Pray this last big things works out will and we can be first time home buyers!!!

Being sick!

I hate being sick. I’m on my second day of missed work now. I do not enjoy just laying around all-day, I go nuts. Being in the health care field I really don’t like it when patients come in sick so I know they would not like it if I came in sick. Fingers crossed that two days is all I need to get better and I can go back to work tomorrow.

For clarification.

For clarification, I (Sarah) post my blogs in the black color (because I don’t know how to change it) and Steve posts his blogs in the brown/red color. Even thought our writing styles are different (I miss spell everything. Lol). I just wanted to make it clear for whom ever might wonder who is really writing this or that.

Family

Here are some new pictures. Enjoy!!

Getting that much closer!

We might finally get to move in to a house of our own. Things are in the works and we are just waiting for all the paper work to get signed and turned in. It amazes us that the guy selling the house is a principle broker and he forgets to sign this or that, forgets to give us paper work. I bunch of little things he forgets that makes us wonder. Now I feel like it is a waiting game. We are not sure of the closing date yet so we have not started to pack anything up yet. But we will be very ready. We are very excited but we don’t want to get our hopes up to much since we have had a house fall thought before. But let me tell you this house is amazing. Totally flipped inside and out, all it needs is our stuff. We can’t wait to have Chad with us all the time. We miss having a ball under our feet.

Choices

Recently I have had many thoughts on political and financial topics. These are not topics I typically ponder. With the attention being paid to them recently and the talk around the water cooler, it's hard not to get thoughts about them. You could rationalize that I am getting older and more mature thus leading to more 'in-depth' concern of these things. You might be right. The last time I was able to vote with two new names on the ballot, I could really have cared less and known even less than that. I find myself lost in a sea of deceit and wonder. Not knowing what is the truth or how we as a society might even get there. There are things I like and dislike about all the candidates. The only person in the race that I have no opinion on is Biden. I hear alot of talk about how the democrats are advocating socialism, even been strung along far enough to get to communism. I find it laughable. Especially when I found that Palin advocated for the banning of books in her time in offices in the state of Alaska. I believe that censorship is one of the most powerful tools of a communist government. I have this urge/sense that as a christian I'm supposed to vote republican. Yet I don't much approve of most the things I hear from their side. Healthcare being the top category. I like the notion of change coming from the democrats yet this slogan only states the obvious. Change is inevitable at this point. The question is how much change are you willing to deal with?

Anyhow, the point was to get to an epiphany of sorts. The thought I'm about to share may not be a new one for me. Someone reading may have heard me say this before. I say this because the thought seems so, for lack of better word, 'right' to me. I believe that God desires for us to have a choice in all our actions. In recent discussions I've heard that the true purpose of the commandments is not to provide laws or guidelines to follow but so that we would know for ourselves the notion or feeling of wrong. Leading us to make the right choice. Thinking on this I discovered that as a follower of Christ, I must be pro-choice. I firmly believe that abortion is wrong. There are scenarios that make the procedure less ugly, but it's still wrong. I'm not saying that I have the answer to how to deal with this topic. I just can't find reason why we (man) should take away the choice that God has given all of us. I know that we don't have that authority. The people that have to make that choice will be tested as I can not imagine. I can't say what my choice would be if I were in one of those "less ugly" scenarios. I can only be thankful that I still have a choice, and God has shown me what is right.

I'm aware that there may be many disagreements, that's not my point. I'm not sparking a debate. It feels like I have sat on the fence of this topic for a long time, I finally found a seat on the grass. Thanks.

House Hunting!

We went searching for another house today. Found one we really really really like and we plan to put an offer in by this weekend. It has been remodeled top to bottom, new flooring, windows, lighting, the works. It has a very cool yard, nice deck and wonderfully taken care of grass and plants. It is also close to a park for Chad. Keep praying for us that we can find a house before Christmas.

Still house hunting.

We put our best offer in on a house on Friday and it got rejected. So we are out house hunting again and looking at homes with a smaller asking price. That means smaller house, smaller monthly payment (which will be good) but it can be a stepping stone to a larger house later. Just need to get our feet in the door somewhere. Keep us in your prayers for a house before Christmas.