Our Future Home!

We were able to walk through our future home this week! So here are some pictures just for you Andrea! :) We close on April 30th.

We're homeowners!!!

I'm so excited to announce that Derek and I are homeowners!!! I was very nervous to go through the process again after what happened the first time, but we knew if we didnt act fast, the house would be gone! To our surprise, we were faced with another offer on this house as well, and had to make some big decisions in order to get it in the end. And we ended up getting the house...BARELY! Our realtor wasnt able to tell us what the other people offered, but she told us it was very close and had we offered anything less, it wouldnt have been ours. Oofda. The other people who put an offer on it have been through this process 3 times now... and Derek and I decided if we lost this house too, we were going to put off looking for a house altogether. This process is a lot more stressful and exhausting than I expected. We are so glad its over!!!

The house is brand new, and the basement is unfinished, which is what Derek originally wanted. He used to work in construction, so he is very excited to finish the house and we can make it our own this way. My dad is also excited I think, as he and Derek discussed all of the options we have of finishing it! Great bonding time for Derek and Dad :)
Right now there are 2 bedrooms and 1 bath, and when its finished there will be 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. We have a decent sized yard, and a three car garage as well. All of the appliances are stainless steel, and its all brand new obviously, since the house has never been lived in! We will have to put some money into it, but since there is plenty of space for the two of us, we wouldnt have to do anything for a while. I have a feeling Derek wont be able to wait long though!

Anyway, we are excited and I couldnt wait to share the news! We are closing a lot earlier than we hoped to, but we will make it work. Talk about a busy couple of months...as if I wasnt busy enough already!!! I will be more than ready for a vacation after all of this is over! :)

It can only get better from here

Go figure, after a super stressful couple of weeks, I ended up getting sick. It never fails.

I'm slowly recovering now. I was so congested and my throat was so swollen that I could barely talk. I of course had to miss work too, so I'm hoping to pick up shifts after my crazy busy week of classes this week. If I dont make up those days, I can pretty much kiss my honeymoon goodbye, because I wont have enough PTO. :( Ugh.

For those of you who havent heard yet, we didnt end up getting our "perfect" house. Another couple put an offer on it, and offered the full asking price. We were shocked, and are still quite bummed about it. Since then we've looked at many more houses and just cant find anything that compares. Now Derek keeps looking further and further out of town...which is not at all what I had in mind. I know it wasnt meant to be, and it just means something better will come out of it... hopefully we'll see what that is very soon!

School is busy as always, and I missed class this week too so I'm trying to play catch up. Pretty difficult when you're not feeling well and you have only a few short days to put together a huge 20-30 minute presentation. Hopefully Ill feel 100% better in the morning and it will all go smoothly. One can only hope.

I got a wonderful surprise in the mail yesterday. Dereks brother and sister in law knew I'd been stressed out the past couple of weeks, so they sent me a gift certificate for an entire day at the spa! It literally includes everything you would go to a spa for: 30 minute full body massage, pedicure, manicure, 30 minute facial, along with getting my hair colored and styled, and my makeup done!! Holy cow! Talk about a day of pampering. Hopefully Derek and I can have a date night or something after. Im definitely looking forward to that! I guess having a massage therapist in the family will come in handy! :)

Thats all for now... I cant sleep since Ive been sleeping most of the day, so I figured I'd vent a little...

Stressed

Yikes. Just when I think my life is settling down, I realize I have even more things to do! I cant keep up!

As school is winding down for the trimester, the papers and presentations are increasing, and my stress level is through the roof! After a very long weekend of work, all I wanted to do on Monday was sleep! Luckily I had exciting things to do, like meet my mom at Mestads to try on my wedding dress for the first time! :) So I was actually able to wake up early. But then I had to sit in class for 4 hours, and then the day was over. Now today I have the entire day off of work and school...and as I was looking at my schedule, I realized that I have very limited time the next week to get my presentation done...so I need to do it TODAY. I have rewritten it a couple of times already because I dont really know what shes really expecting us to do...and I'm ready to throw my computer out the window. I would much rather write a paper any day...Or even take a test for that matter!

We only have 3 more weeks of classes, and then I'll finally have a break. But too bad we have deadlines for the wedding coming up this week too and have to get the DJ our song list, the videographer needs our photos and song choices for our slide show and we still need to find someone to sing for the wedding and make our cake! Oh, and we need passports too for our honeymoon.

Not to mention the fact that Derek and I are working different shifts right now, so when I actually have time get some of the wedding stuff done, he needs to sleep.

I wish I could just hire someone to do this crap for me. This is so frustrating. I cant believe I CHOSE to do all of this at once....