To Brighten Your Day

I might have one of the world's cutest hispanic preschoolers in the world. I can't post a picture of him, but he has this spiky dark hair and the chubbiest chipmunk cheeks, plus his accent just makes all the funny things he says even more hilarious. This is a sample just from today:

(I was asking him to identify different plastic farm animals)

Me: What's this animal?
G: A horsey.
Me: How bout this one?
G: A bunny wabbit.
Me: And this one right here?
G: A twack, twack! (It was a duck)

(He was laughing on his cot at rest time, really LOUD)

Me: Shhh! Your friends are trying to sleep.
G: I tan't help it, my tummy just make me laughing when I cose my eyes!

If this even evoked a little grin, it did it's job, have a wonderful weekend!

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Back to Searching

A quick update on the house hunting- we were in a negotiation on a house in Nevada all last week and finally decided on Friday that we couldn't accept the terms the seller wanted and chose to walk away. It was sad because we really loved the house. The seller is renting to another family right now and even though he's not bound to the full six month lease he has with them, he doesn't want to break it early, which would mean we wouldn't get the house until the end of June and he wasn't willing to compensate for that wait by bringing the price down further. Oh well, I suppose we will find something. We looked at about every house in Nevada that was our price range and built after 1940, so we're going to try looking at some places in Ames. Who knows, maybe the market will open up a little bit more in the next couple of weeks and we'll have many more choices, we'll see....... :)

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Any Advice??

We found one we like and we're trying to do our homework so that we know how much to offer. This is so nerve racking! Plus, I feel a little bad because the house we are interested in the most, the seller just started renting to a little family from Kansas, they have three kids and just moved in last weekend. From talking to them they weren't expecting anyone to be interested in buying the house for a while still, but we really like it and there are just enough improvements to be made that we feel confident we can deal with them. Don't want to jinx anything yet, just wish us luck and pray for us that we get the house!

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An Early Merry Christmas to All

Just want to wish everyone a very merry Christmas. We were supposed to be in Sioux City for Christmas Eve and then head out to Greenfield to hang out with the Browns for a couple days, but it seems mother nature has other plans for us. I came back from my parents' house yesterday afternoon with my brother to make sure Jerod wouldn't be stuck at home by himself on Christmas, I guess I love him! We're hoping that we'll be able to make it out to see the Browns on Sunday at his Grandma's soup dinner. It has really made me appreciate the time that I was able to spend with my family, it was all positive, we just enjoyed being around one another and that's all I could ask for at this time of year. So anyway, we hope that your Christmas is just as satisfying and full of the love of family and friends, and we also pray for safe travels for everyone who is brave enough to battle this weather out, God bless!

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House Hunting Update

So far we've seen 7 homes in Nevada. I thought when we started looking at homes that it would be like magic, I would immediately know which one I liked the best and then we'd make an offer etc. and so forth. But now that I've seen 7 homes (2 of which we didn't request to see) I feel like if I don't see every home that's a could-be, I'll wind up wondering if this other house would have been better. I hope our real estate agent is up for some major showing after Christmas because we'll have a few days of "all day" where we won't have anything better to do but shop for homes! On the up side I've become less ambitious (Jerod is thankful) in that I don't feel the need to get a complete fixer-upper, I'm okay with just having a few things to remodel or whatever, and Jerod is becoming a little MORE ambitious, i.e. he doesn't feel like everything has to be move-in ready.

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The 'Stache

The most hated man in my life for the past week (minus the usual suspects: Tom Brady, Tim Tblow, Tyler Hanborough), has been the debacle of a coach known as Dave Wannstedt. Wanny is a popular running joke due to the stupid shit his football teams routinely do. Well this week, Wanny gave me my worst betting loss of the college fb season by blowing a 31-10 lead.

While I do hate Wanny currently, I still love his twin brother.

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Hunting for a House

So we're doing it! We're really, actually, literally going out to look at houses! It's so exciting, and scary, and so many things! How many exclamation points can I fit in this short blurb???!!!!!! (kidding, just ready to finally take that grown up step)

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