House Hunting

Wow looking for houses is an exhausting task!!! Especially when your trying to purchase a home 2500 miles away and close within 30days....and you don't even have the house yet. The first 2 houses we considered were gone before we could even see them with a realtor. Then on our most recent choice we were outbid, day late dollar short (or a few dollars). Though I am so grateful to my mom and sister and now we've enlisted Chris's dad to go look at houses and take photos for us, without them the search would be impossible. So THANK YOU guys! Our search has spread throughout I think 7 counties now. So if anybody knows or sees someone with their house for sale (in MI) keep us in mind and let us know, we need all the help we can get. Our realtor Jeff has been fabulous trekking across all of southeast MI and dealing with the impossible standards of the type of house we're looking for in a budget that is inflexible. I am not an easy customer - I'm sure my aunt and mom can attest to that. Although I thought we were going to throw in the towel a few days ago but we are not going to give up quite that easy, at least thats what I keep trying to remind myself as a doze off at the computer at 1 am after being on realtor.com for 4 hours..my poor kids they think their parents are "realtor.com" junkies. Hopefully one day they'll understand;-) In the meantime we just keep pressing forward.

Sledding in Vegas. I bet my family in MI never imagined we'd be able to still participate in this fun family activity... Ha Ha! We just don't have to drive in it, get salt all over our cars, and sit in terrible traffic to get through it. Nope just a scenic drive up Kyle Canyon Rd for about 25mins and its snowy mountains and evergreen trees. The hardest part was trying to put the snowsuits on once we got there; it was way to warm to put them on before we left :-).

And now after being in Vegas for nearly 3yrs we are thinking about going back to MI; no we do not need a lobotomy.