We're Official... (-ly in debt to our eye-balls!)

We closed on the house yesterday morning. Yeah!!! =)

March 28th ?!?!?!?!

Well... have spent more time making & receiving phone calls over the last 2 weeks than at any other time in my short 31 years... with the possible exception of the days just after Baby Dragon #1 was born. Note to self: When next child is born, be sure to take phone off the hook... for like... a month.... or longer...

But, on the bright side, it does look like things are finally settled. We have the Ramey vehicle til Wednesday the 22nd, then we're borrowing another car from a family at church until the 12th of April when we'll be renting a car to drive Nawth in for a family vacation /// show off great-/grand kid /// pick up our 'new' Ford Explorer trip. Once we get back to SC, we'll be renting a moving truck & transferring a big load of.... um.... stuff to our new house.

Speaking of the new house, looks like we'll be closing on the 28th or so of March. Since we were all pre-approved for the loan, financing is no big deal & the whole progressing-toward-closing process is moving along rather rapidly. Not necessarily with the speed and precision of the German trains, but perhaps more reliably on-time than the Italian ones! The building inspector is hired, as is the termite inspector...

I'm sure we're forgetting something massive but since we're forgetting it, I dunno what it is!!! This week I decided to throw a head cold into the mix, so my throat has not been loving the extended hours on the phone. I'm sure, however, that BD#1 & Hubby have been enjoying the peace & quiet when I've been off the phone!! :-D

So.... since I've had a massive two weeks of non-stop talking, we decided to take a day off. This morning we slept in (til all of 7:45 when a certain young man's babbling at the top of his lungs woke me up), then had a leisurely breakfast. Hubby cooked. Score!!!

Now we're hanging out in the wonderfully quiet Chez Ramey, killing time while the babe naps before heading up to the Circle M BBQ (345 Martin Sausage Road, Liberty SC 29657 - (864) 375-9133) joint to get some wicked good BBQ for supper on our way back to Greenville. Yum!!! They're open til 9pm tonight... anyone wanna come join us???


I'm sure I won't be on-line much for the next month or so... got a lot of boxes of... stuff to pack. Heh.


A LOT of boxes!!

Anyway, thought some of you might enjoy seeing what the little one was up to at Chez Ramey before he went down for his afternoon nap. (Sorry about the once-neat piles of CDs LJ!!)

















Welp, the last load of laundry has dinged in the dryer, so I'd best be off before everything wrinkles. Chow!!

They accepted!!

Well, we got the call this afternoon, our offer was accepted... now we have a bit more than a month to come up with financing, insurance, etc. and be all ready to sign on the house. With the way that the Lord has worked everything else out this week (it's not every week you're given an Explorer AND a house!!), I'm sure the next steps will work out as well. The Lord is Good!

We did it!!

We survived this week... with a gracious plenty help from the Lord!

From our truck being flipped by an idiot hit-n-run (unlicensed & uninsured) driver to making an offer on a cute little house nicely located near work & church, to finding out we're expecting Baby Dragon #2, it's been an interesting week.

TGIF!!!

MND at NCS

Awesomeness....

The gang at NCS did a bang-up job of their final performance of MND (Mid-summer Night's Dream). Kudos to the actors & directors & all the behind the scenes peoples for a GREAT job done!

"Well roared, lion." Heh.

Maybe??

So we wonder...... Have we found "the" house???

We've definitely found houses.... (count is still at 46 b/c we're taking this weekend "off.") We've found nice houses in crappy neighborhoods, we've found nice houses in OK neighborhoods but with yards smaller than 1/10th of an acre (and that one was next door to a water-treatment plant), we've found nasty houses in nice neighborhoods, and yes, even several nasty houses in nasty neighborhoods... and don't forget the one that smelled of recently-smoked pot--which was in Anderson, I hasten to add.

You'd think we were being picky. Yanno, no broken windows, not the ONLY framed house on the street (what's with Southerners' love-affair w/ trailers anyway?!?), at least 1/2 acre for yard space, not too many miles from hubby's office... That's really all we're asking!! That's not so much is it?? *whines* Come on.. three freaking criteria: livable house, decent neighborhood, nice yard. But we've been finding out by sheer force of looking that these three are not *quite* all available at the same time in our price range.... and by our price range I mean we're NOT sending me back to work or hubby to get a 2nd job over a house--not over ANY house.

But..... whining aside, after two months of recreational (and not-so-recreational) house-hunting on-line & by truck we've found a house. We're not jumping up & down saying it's the most wonderful house imaginable, but we've learned a few things over the past few months of house hunting. We're going to have to go with 2 & 1/2 of 3. It's got a great yard (just over an acre of land), it's in a relatively quiet established neighborhood... and the house meets all of our "minimum requirements"... like 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, non-leaking roof. It's currently being remodeled, and so far they're doing a great job of things. Nice neutral colors, good workmanship, modernizing/updating, etc. It's a little smaller than we would have liked (especially after living a trailer for the last 8 years), but it's definitely bigger than where we are now.

So.... we're dragging a friend over to see it tomorrow.. one of that wonderful kind of friend who's remodeled every house he's ever purchased & had already volunteered to help us give any possibilities a once-over.... Not that we wouldn't hire a building inspector eventually, but he's got a good eye for things that we probably wouldn't notice right off that could make it a no deal after all (before we spend any $$ on an inspector). Anyway... said friend is getting le grand tour of la casa tomorrow with us & the realtor again.. we'll see what he thinks & go on from there.

Put it this way, it's the first house that we've seen that we've both said... "Yea, this'll work!" And after 46 houses, that's a nice thing to hear!!