More house pics

pics of the new house

So hopefully we will be moving in mid April Im so excited just to get rid of stuff! Im going to go through everything and just get rid of whatever I havent seen or used within a few months. Its going to be like a fresh breath of air to get into a brand new house and re orgazize all our stuff to best situate our lives now. Im so ready to pack, but i cant for atleast three more weeks becaus we basically use all the stuff that is out and there is nowhere to store anything in boxes! May I add I have no desire to clean or do anything around here now that I know we are moving lol.. how sad!! I have to force myself to do all the cleaning!

Feelings of change

Im so excited to move I will say there is no doubt about that, but I'm actually a bit sad. Ripon was a place I diden't even know anything about until we moved here 4 1/2 years ago. Its only like 20 minutes from my hometown also so how dumb is that? It was just so small i never even realized it was here! Well since we moved here I just love it. I love the people and everthing about it. This is a town where people leave their doors unlocked and neighors watch out for eachother. My daughters school is great and Adriana's preschool has the best people working there I would trust them with my kids anytime. The most thing I will remember is the relationships I have formed since we have been here. I met Alicia who lives next door who has basically became my best friend in a years time. I love her and Noah like my family (Marcus your aight too hehhee) and would do anything for them. We help eachother out like family and trust eachother with our children which is something that is hard to come by. i will never forget the summer we had together doing EVERYTHING together. My friend Laurie who I actually worked with and did not get to know very well, but we met again at our daugters basketball game she is just one of thoes peole that are hard to come by. She is a ginuine good person who i loves her family and loves her friends. I know she would be there for me anytime I needed her and has been. I will miss here just stopping by after the gym in the morning just to chat and give me a bit oif "adult" company. These are two people I know I will always have part of my life, but its just gunna be sad to not have them within arms reach. Both our smallest kids have grown up here both brought home from the hspital to this house. So many great things have happened under this roof too many to count. I cant believe its been so many years since we moved here. People know eachother here the workers at out local store know me its just small enough people can actually have relationships. So even though a new and exciting chapter is opening for us I will miss Ripon, and be thankful fo every mmoment and memory I have of here. If it wasent for this town I would not have met so many great people. BTW we be only like 35 minutes away from here, but Im still sad!! hahah

I cant believe this is actually happening

We bought a brand new house!!!! Yes, we managed that in the California real estate market haha. Not a forclosure with a ton of issues, but a new just built house! It is just gorgeous let me tell you it is a 4 bedroom aprx. 1700 sq feet, and has granite kitchen counters, all stainless steel aplliances, which I am beyond excited for , and maple cabinents throughout the house. The carpet has an 8 inch pad underneath so our kids can fall all over the place! Its a 3 car garage just simply lovely! I never imagined we would be able to afford a house like this before I am a nurse and making the big bucks. This is our dream and it seems to be comin together. Of course everything with escrow needs to go smooth but thats with all houses and if god wants this for our family he will make it happen. The house behind us that were sold about a year ago that are comparable to ours were sold for 450 to 500k.Although that is California for you waayyyy overpriced and the cost of living is nuts. Living tha "California" life doesn't come cheap I iwll tell ya! It seems though we have found a match our mortgage is just gunna be a bit over our rent. The one downside is it its kinda far from everybody its about 50 minutes from my mom and dad and a bit over an hour for my inlaws. My husband will have about a 35 minute commute to work as will I with school the town we are moving to is tiny. The population is 10,000. It is a very safe place though whith small town country charm so its a place to raise kids. The subdivision we are going to live in is super nice and has a really nice park which is really all you need with kids! So pray it all goes well, and we should be moving in about 30 days or so!!! Im so excited I cant wait to decorate the kids rooms, and have a huge garage sell before we leave sell some old stuff and make way for some new stuff!

More pics

Some Reno pics

Here are some pics of the snow driving up and back, our hotel, and our beautiful room.I love the bathroom there, it has a flatscreen and the bathroom is all marble its soo pretty I love it. Its hard to show how nice it is in pics though so I took a few pics of the huge mirror and bathroom. The room also had a huge wall mounted flatscreen a couch by the window that overlooked the city. We were on the 22nd floor I think it was, but it was gorgeous at night I too pics but it dident come up in them.

A little bit of everything...

Our weekend was pretty darn busy and exciting..we went to the Almond Blossom Festival which is the biggest deal in our little small town, and I got a sever case of stroller rage! Grrr... there are soooo many people that go its just way to crowded for me I cannot stand crowds like that especially trying to navigate three kids in that mess! Getting them on rides is such big ordeal so we stayed about 1 1/2 hours and left. Not to meantion it would cost us a million dollars to keep up with the cost of thoes dang rides!

Then after that we went house shopping!! We got a pre approval for a loan so we went out with the real estate agent and out of I think 7 houses we seen all of which were foreclosures in Ca thats about all there is... we found one nice one. Well let me not down play it I LOVE IT!!! It has all wood floors down stairs, slate on the kitchen and bathrooms floors, four bedrooms and its a newer house the back is already landscaped. Compared to he other houses its waaayyyyy better. Well here is the prob we want to get a rural loan which we were lead to believe the town up the road from us qualified which is where this house is, at this point its cosidered an outskirt of Modesto and we dont think it will qualify:((( So we either do A FHA loan which we gotta put a down payment on or just move on and look at another town. I know there are other houses I will love, but this house has the location we need, size, and its nice but we will see...This house crap is sooo complicated if its not one thing its another so im just gunna go with the flow and see what comes out of it. Other than that same ol stuff school, kids, and being my normal busy self. Its been ugly weather here so we have been stuck inside today im just gunna clean and we will stay home tomorrow I think Im gunna take the kids to this new jumpy place near by which they will love of course.