a house at last!

This is our new house! Praise God! The closing is on Friday and we move in on Sunday. I only gave exterior pictures because the owner was in the process of moving out and it was a pigsty! We are so excited to move in and have a place of our own! Everything should be in order and I just need to make sure that the title company puts something on the hud form. I will make sure to post pictures of the inside of the house once we move in.

We have a privacy fence around part of the yard, put the property goes all the wall to the big trees in the back.

This was taken from the living room looking outside. We have a decent sized enclosed gated area wich will be nice for the boys (and me). The owner is an artist and lets just say that he had some interesting decorating choices! The fence is covered with things he has bolted to it including some of the following: skulls and crossbones, golf clubs, bats, pictures, frames, balls, and much more. It will be interesting if he leaves it all for us!

This last week we had Chad's dad, Lyle and stepmom, Maureen with us. We had a great time with them! It was great to have family in and it made the days go faster! They stayed in a hotel here and it had an indoor pool. You can only image the amount of fun the boys had in the pool! Aiden swam with just his floaties on for the first time. Thanks so much for coming guys!

I will be coming to Elkhart on Thursday to meet with La Casa for the last time. Hopefully everything will work out to get the federal IDA seeing that the money expires at the end of September! We had to just buy our first appliances. We thought it was in the contract for us to get the ones with the house, but apparently, it was accidently excluded. Boy, appliances can be very expensive! Thankfully, we found a great deal at like a mom and pop store in Fort Wayne and they will be delivered on Friday.

On this last Saturday, I noticed that Kian was getting all sorts of red bumps on his face, hands, feet, neck, etc. I thought it might have been chicken pox, so yesterday I took him to the doctor. Apparently, he has a virus internally that manifests itself by bullseye looking spots on the body. Thankfully it should go away without any treatment in a few weeks. The move couldn't come at a better time for us. Kian is still getting up every night and sleep has definitely been lacking! It will be nice to be able to let him cry. Thank you everyone for all of the prayers for us concerning the house and Kian sleeping! It is so appreciated!

The boys are getting so big! Kian especially seems to grow up more everyday!