WE OWN IT!

Here are some pictures of the inside of the house.
We have plans to tear out all of the flooring and replace it with hardwood flooring and changing out the carpet in the bedrooms. The home needs a good cleaning and painting as well. I've explained below all of our planned changes for the house. Of course, not everything will be completed before we move in (probably on April 11th). Also, I forgot to take a picture of the hall bath - sorry it is unexciting.
We are going to wait to up date anything in the basement.

View from the front door. The living room is on the left, the stairs to the basement are straight ahead, the dining room and kitchen are behind the wall.

Stairs to the basement.

Living room. We are planning on taking out the (non-load bearing) wall on the right to open up the living room to the dining room and kitchen to make one LARGE great room.

Dining room on left and kitchen.

The Kitchen. We plan on re-staining the yellow oak cabinets to a dark chocolate brown and changing the cabinet door fronts to a simple shaker style. And of course we want to get stainless steel appliances with a gas stove. We also want to change the U-shape to an L-shaped kitchen with an island.

Back door to the deck and a desk. We are thinking about taking out these cabinets and making the space into a pantry.

Hallway to the bedrooms and bathroom.

First bedroom on the left. Probably will be the boys room - smaller closet.

2nd bedroom on left. Bigger closet (walk-in) so it will probably be Allison's room.

Master bedroom at the end of the hallway. We plan to move the wall on the right out about a foot to expand the master bath.

Master bath. We plan on tearing out the tub shower and making a stand-up shower with glass doors, updating the tile, and changing the vanity to double sinks.

A warm spring day

Today is a warm spring day, so it was time to pull out the cute everyday dress. Also, Allison's babysitters have started to do Allison's hair and have inspired me. Here are her cute "Mickey Mouse" pigtails.

I LOVE chocolate

Allison shared my brownie. This is the face that ALWAYS happens after eating chocolate - a chocolate chin!

Home update

Yesterday we had our home inspection, aside from some VERY DEEP CLEANING and new carpet, the home is very sound. There is only one problem, stucco... there is some water damage in one area and we had an appraisal done. So we are waiting for the stucco appraisal to come back so we can send it to the bank. So the home purchase is still in a holding pattern.

As for pictures, I took my camera yesterday to take pictures, but the battery died - so NO photos. Sorry... I will get some for all of those that want to see the home and its layout.

Thanks for your love and support. We will keep all of you updated...

NO more renting....

We got the house!!! The bank has approved our offer and now we are doing the necessary details, appraisals and home inspections. Of course, there could be a hiccup along the way, but hopefully we will be home owners soon.
Actually, REALLY SOON, the bank wants us to close March 20th! Of course, I am due on March 31st, so this is going to be a really busy month. We will see how all of this goes, but thankfully, I will have some help between Rita and my mom's visits, hopefully we will have some moving help.
Maybe we will have a baby name soon too....

I just found out that they have taken the home off of the MLS, probably because it is under contract now. So I will work on getting some photos of it for all that are interested.

For all of those who don't know the details of the house, here they are...
5 bedrooms (3 beds main level, 2 in the basement)
3 bathrooms (2 baths main level, 1 in the basement)
ranch/rambler built in 1990s - needs some TLC and update (flooring and kitchen and baths)
semi-unfinished basement (just the beds and baths are done, but there is lots of room for a GREAT family room)
fenced in backyard with a deck (and space for Ivan's trailer)
good neighborhood with a park less than a block away
in south jordan - off of 124th, not too far off of highway 15

I'm growing bigger

Allison went to the pediatrician today and we still have a little model on our hands... she is tall and thin compared to other kids her age.

Height: 32.5 inches - 97th percentile
Weight: 21.5 lbs - 25th percentile

She had two shots - poor baby but she handles it well, cries while she is being held down, but then recovers quickly. We also found out that she has (yet again) followed in daddy's footsteps and has asthma. She has had a continuous dry cough for months that worsens when she is outside, exerting herself, and is worse at night. So now we are going to try an inhaler to see if it will help her sleep through the night, hopefully she will stop waking up coughing.

Here is a video of Allison "eating" some oatmeal - no wonder she is so thin, I don't think any of it gets into her mouth - but she has to learn to feed herself some how. Needless to say, after this eating session she went STRAIGHT to the bath and of course the oatmeal was STILL hard to get off. Why is oatmeal so gluey?
Sorry that the video is grainy...

Do it AGAIN!

For those who grew up with Ivan, you already know, that his favorite phrase as a child was "Do it again"! Of course, Allison has followed in her daddy's footsteps, but because she can't say that, she signs "more". Here is Ivan "roughing" her up and she wanting more after he stops. Her sign for "more" is a open left hand and her right hand pointing at the left hand.

Sorry the video is from the side, I had a brain-fart - the baby is stealing my brain cells.