Waiting...waiting...waiting...

Well, Jon and I found out that the mortgage company approved our new offer! (those who may not know, we had to make another offer on the home as our appraisal came back about 20k less than the asking price) So, great news-we are going to pay 20k less for the home!

We are just waiting now to find out if our loan docs will really go through and then we can close. If all goes through, we are supposed to close Tues/Wednesday this week.

I'm just so excited to finally be able to get into our new home. There is a lot of work to do-first things on our list are 1. take pop-corn ceiling off (a HUGE mess and job we've heard) 2. paint EVERYWHERE (there is really yucky dirty paint on the walls right now) 3. rip out the old carpet in the bedrooms and stain the concrete underneath 4. replace garbage disposal 5. fix a couple minor structural probs with the house 6. move in 7. keep going on our list of things to do...So, needless to say we've got a lot of work to do. I'm not sure how long it's going to take us to get to the point where we can move in--(mom and dad-you don't mind having us for another month, right?) Jon's only got a week until he starts school full time and will be working full time too-so we are on a bit of a time pinch here. We'll probably move in this weekend and just keep going with our renovations a little at a time.

I'm getting really excited to start on this stuff though-in fact, it's pretty much all I can think of at the moment...

Fun in the sun and scorpians

Today was such a fun day--with a mixture of emotions as you may guess from the title. We had the home inspection first thing this morning at the house. Despite the fact that the inspector gave us a list of about a million things that needed to be fixed, he seemed to think that the home was in really good condition for its age. It was so much fun to spend several hours just walking around the house, talking about what we can to do fix it up, clean it up and make it ours. I know that we won't have the money to do everything we would like to immediately, but we'll just do a little at a time and I know it will be so cute. So, inspection down, appraisal to go...We are supposed to have the appraisal on Monday and be ready to close by Wednesday.
After we got done with the inspection, we took Bradley, Gracie and Nacho to the Colorado River by Nelson's landing. We packed a little picnic and hiked down to a lagoon where we splashed around in the sun. We jumped off a little cliff (don't worry Amy and Gina-it was only about 10ft high and Jon jumped in first to make sure that it was deep enough), and skipped rocks. We ate our lunch on our towels on the shore. Once we were done, Gracie and I blew up our pool rafts and floated around on the water, and just as I was saying to Gracie what an amazing day and how fun this was, I felt a little tickle on my left ear. I reached to swat away what I though was fly or a bee--to my surprise, I pulled a scorpion out of my ear!!! I wildly thrashed around the water to try to get it off my finger. Too late, it had already stung the inside of my ear!! yuck. The rest of the day was not the same for me. Although I did manage to jump off the cliff a few times.

Nacho also had a really fun time--he swam all over. He even followed us out to the cliff. Every time he was on shore, he would run up and down and bite the incoming waves. He was SO CUTE!