We got it!

We were supposed to find out on monday if we got the house or not, but they didnt get to us until yesterday! But after a few minor changes to our offer, they accepted it! Pretty much the only change that was made was that the closing date was moved back which works in our favor anyways. It gives mike more time to find a job too! But we arent gonna tell them that :)

The house is 1663 square feet and has 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. There is one place in the house that was supposed to be another bedroom but one wall was never put up so we are going to do that so we will have 5 beds! the yard it huge and i just love the front of the house! Its so cute and has so much charm! its on a dead end street and has a park right across the street! It will be perfect for our first home!

We are so excited to be able to have a house by the beginning of this summer! We never thought that we would be getting a house anytime soon and are just so happy that it all worked out so well! We just have a little less than 3 months left living with people and then we are in our house! So exciting!!!! And the best part is that we will still qualify for the 8000 tax credit too!

We will post some pictures of it once we move in and have made some repairs and changes!

house hunting MADNESS!!

Mike and I had a crazy day yesterday! We have been house hunting for about a week now with a realtor in Nampa. On Tuesday we went out and looked at a bunch of houses and there was one that i absolutely loved. We got pre-approved through a lender for enough to pay for this house that i loved and then went back to look at it yesterday. Well when we got there, the realtor got into the lock box and the key was missing. She called around and found out that the house had sold and that no one had bothered to update it in the systems! So i was really upset! I was in love with this house and now it was gone! Well we went back to her office to look and see if any new listing had come up. There were two more so we went to look at them.
The first was trashed! The people knew that they were gonna lose thier house and so they kicked in all the cupboards and recked the whole house! The next house we looked at was perfect! it was a cute house and the floorplan worked out great for us! But then i look out the back window and realized that the yard was like two feet wide and i couldnt deal with looking at a fence all day long out the window! I was pretty upset because Mike loved the house and i did too except for the yard! Then we realized that the house that is backed up to this ones yard was the very first house we ever looked at. So I asked if we could look at it again because the yard was HUGE! So we went inside and realized that it was the exact same floor plan minus a wall that was never put in to make the bedroom downstairs! Well my dad has built a house and so has mikes dad so we knew that they could put in this one wall for us! I was sold! I wanted this house so bad!!!! So we went back to her office to make sure that it was still available!
Well it was still available, but there were 7 other offers on the house and they were only accepting offers for another hour. And we had to be pre-approved through wells fargo because that is who the house was through! Stupid wells fargo! Well every person who could handle a mortgage loan was at a meeting in boise! and we only had an hour left! We couldnt get a hold of anyone but still wrote up an offer anyways hoping that we might be able to get it in! Well 20 min before it was due a WF person called us and just said that he knew Debbie and trusted her and if we were pre-approved somewhere else he would just write us a letter saying that we were through him too! Without even taking any information. So we got the offer in with not a second to spare!
Who knows if we will actually get it but it was a fun and exciting day trying to get this all done on time! We made a very strong offer that was 10000 over asking price, so we are hoping that we get accepted! I love this house! But with 7 other offers, who knows how high they offered for this house! I feel really good about it though!
So we will find out on Monday evening if our offer was accepted! If not, we will not get too upset because we know that the right house will come up! We have really been enjoying this whole process of searching for our home! Its kind of stressful but its so intense and exciting! So i will keep you posted on if our offer gets accepted!!!

We are all moved!

So we loaded up the uhaul last friday and left saturday afternoon for home. It did take us a while to drive back because the uhaul can only go so fast... but we were glad to be back home! We got all of our stuff into a room at my moms house on sunday and i was surprised that it all fit! I did have to leave my craft stuff out because i use it so much! but everything else fit into one room! Mike is still back in Pocatello because he has classes until tomorrow, but Maeli and I are settling in back here in Oregon!

I was kind of sad leaving pocatello! I never thought that i would be sad moving away from there, but i was! I have made so many good friends that i was having a hard time leaving behind! EMILEY!!! I MISS YOU!!! :)

So things are gonna start slowing down here soon i hope! Once mike gets back and he starts a regular schedule of clinicals it will be at least! But we are really looking forward to being done with school and finding a house this summer!!!