Sewing, Museum and Sledding

Time is quickly running out for us here. It's going to be bittersweet....we've made a couple really great friends that we don't want to leave, but we're also ready to start anew(more time together as a family, new things to do, new home that is actually ours...etc). We're trying to squeeze in as much time as possible with our friends before we all start to move away. It's been tough with sicknesses and lots of other activities. We were able to finally get us all together for some sewing at my house a couple weeks ago. Thank you, ladies, for teaching me how to sew!!!! I now have two projects done and am hoping to find some time to do more....it's quite rewarding when you see the finished product.

Next up was the Boonshoft Museum. Our membership is going to be expiring very soon so we've got to take advantage of it and the sweet discounts we can get at other area musuems. Our girls LOVE this place!!

Adeline

Jail Time!
Shopaholic


Then yesterday we went sledding. It was fun for the first 10 minutes and then Allie had had enough. We don't have the best gloves for her so I guess I can't blame her. These girls are just so stinkin' cute together...

cute little Norah all bundled up

here you can see Allie was cold...Adeline was content with eating the snow!

JUNK

yeah, the house we have our contract on.....is junk. No wonder I had such a bad feeling about it! Derek is there right now and it would cost us a good $30k for it to even be liveable really. Even then, Derek said it's very apparent the guy is a smoker, from the smell and the wall and ceiling discoloration...we wouldn't be able to tolerate that! We just barely made it within the 12 days to only lose $100 (I thought it was going to be $1500 so I was livid w/ our realtor man for telling us it was by far the best house).... we had 2 days to spare though, thankfully!

I'm done with the idea of getting something to fix up!! Not worth it, plus we NEED to have time together as a family again. It's been a long time :(

Cabin Fever

We finally got out of the house for a little bit yesterday after being stuck inside for the past week. Today, while Avery was napping, Allie and I made a Princess Castle....and now we're freezing so we probably won't be out again for another week!!

San Antonio House

Well, we have a contract on a house. We're supposed to close on it mid March.....Derek is going to fly down this weekend for the inspection to make sure everything looks good with it since it's 18 years old. He'll also be looking at other houses while he's there....just in case.
We've been looking for a house basically ever since we found out we were going to San Antonio. We're so excited to finally own a home (and for the sweet tax return.) This house, like I said earlier, is an older home and could definitely use some updates. The thing that attracted us the most to this house was the fact that it is in a gated community and the schools are the best in this area. We really want our kids to have a great education and want to feel safe so this was perfect for us. It's also in the highly sought after Hill Country, which could be good when we go to try to sell it in four years when it's time to move again. It's within a 20-30 minute drive to EVERYTHING - work (LAckland AFB), Sea World, Six Flags, shopping, downtown. The biggest downfall to it is the fact that it's older and needs the updates. Okay, maybe not needs.....but I want them. I've been really down about the house since we bought it. Just because all of the other houses we were looking out were absolutely gorgeous (granted, a lot that we were looking at were about 100,000 out of our price range)....which brings me to another point about why this house is good for us. We got it for a great price! Derek knows a lot of people that live in San Antonio from work and they are all amazed at the home we got. They say that is an incredible price and the BEST area to live in hands down. They all think the house is really nice too. Now I just need to see it! Which, I really am starting to. We've been watching a lot of the DIY network and so I've started to really see the potenital this home could have. So I'm excited to see what we can do! Anyway, here are the pics of the house. Stay tuned for the updates (which will hopefully be done by the end of the summer). Our main focus will be the kitchen and bathrooms.