I have a headache

This job I told you was so easy. WELLLL. I started to worry that the carpet was to light and Craig wouldn't like it because he wanted our other carpet we laid in Logan so we went and talked to Brenda at Mattamy homes and she said we could put in their cheapest carpet and then we could replace it after the home closed. Which I know is a waste but that is how they do things here with spec homes. Craig found our Logan carpet and with some work we went and took the sample to the designer and thank goodness we did not like it with the tile and Craig could even see it wasn't harmonise as he put it. The tile wasn't as dark as we remembered and the carpet wasn't as light as we remembered and again we are happy. The designer said a lot of people call back because they are worried. Was she making us feel better? We have now been looking at swimming pool. We have talked to three companies and have two more to go. I hope that is all because each visit takes two or three hours besides the drive. I will send some 3-d pictures of the pool when we narrow it down. They are now sheet rocking the home. Another sunny day. Love ya

Don't fall over

Craig and I went today to choose our flooring and counter tops. We had a two hour appointment with the designer. We first chose our tile and both agreed on that pretty fast. The carpet was next which took a little longer. There were less choices and only one place to look. We found one carpet sample we all liked, but Craig wanted to keep looking and looking and looking. Craig finally called a carpet place in Logan to find out about our carpet we bought, but the design center here didn't have that brand so finally we decided on the first one we all liked. I just hope we love the carpet as much as our carpet in Logan that took a year to pick out. The sample was tiny. We do have a sample of our carpet in our Hyde Park home just in case we wanted the same carpet here but we neatly packed it and put it in the Logan storage. dah. While Craig was looking for carpet in places that most people would not go. I started looking at formica samples and the designer helped narrow it down to four. By the time Craig was done looking at carpet, the designer, and I chose the same one while it took Craig just a little longer but not much. And yes, we were done in 1 hour and 57 minutes. The tile is 18" with different browns in it. The carpet is a light taupe with colored specks and the formica is a dark marble - looking just like Helena's counter tops. Hope this makes sense. Pictures would really help now. We also saw our good friend LaRae Tadlock. Scott, her son is here in Phoenix at the Mayo Hospital getting a kidney biopsy. He has had two kidney tansplants already, and we wish him the best.

We have a new home!

We really did it again. Our home should be finished the middle of December. We went with the Mattamy home. They have built homes for some time in Canada. We will post more picture as they go along. Tomorrow we go to the show room in Tempe to choose our flooring and counter tops. Do you really think we can do this in one trip? The framing is our breakfast bar and kitchen. We even have a view from the back yard which we are excited about.

We don't have a home.

We had an inspection on the home Saturday and decided not to buy. There was a lot more to do than we thought. Then main reason we back out is there was a water leak that was found outside coming down the foundation of the home. The inspectors thought it was coming from the toilet sooo... we are looking again. We are very sad because we did love the home. It is beautiful. Let you know again. Marla

We Have a Home!

Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back view

Back side view . . . . . . . . . Back of home and sweetums

Though the back door . . . . . Front of our home
Dining, kitchen, front door

Mitch just called and we have a home. We need to do an inspection and the bank wants to close on Oct. 3rd. All weekend we were worried that we bid to low and hoped for another chance to bib. Monday afternoon Mitch called and said this is the e-mail he recieved and wanted to know what we wanted to do. Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:27:28 +0000> > The seller has chosen to give every one a final chance to change their offer if they choose to . If no change just email me back your buyers name and their final offer or no change. This expires today at 6:00 pm if I have not heard from you by then I will put in that your buyer has no change. Thank you, Doug McCowanNational Real Estate Network, LLC. Mitch was busy showing homes in Chandler and couldn't get away to show us the home again so we peeked around at it and called a couple of contractors about how much it would cost to change the garage back. Called a pool man about if the back yard was big enough for a pool, which he said it was. We wished the yard was a little bigger. We decided to offer more and we now have a home. We will never know what the next highest bid was and we don't really want to know. We would have been sad if we would have just missed out. When the inspector is there we will make sure the home is good, which we can still back out if it isn't, and we will take some pictures and post them. Love ya Mom

We are packing.

The end of the month our home should be sold. Everything looks like it is going threw now. They want to move in Aug. 15th so we can stay for a little while. Then we are going across the street and stay a little over 2 weeks at Lonnie's home. We need to finish teeth work and Craig has a doctor appointment the first week in Sept. and we will leave right after that. Love ya!

Cute Grandchildren !!!

Hi, We'll see if I remember how to do this. I finally developed all my pictures. What cute kids!! I don't think I had developed any this year so I had around 140 of them. Kaleb's picture is for Susan to show her Kalab sometimes liked his grandma.

The home sale is on again. I'll tell you more about it soon.

Hi, Here I am again. It took me a while to figure this out. We thought a woman was coming today with an offer on our home but we haven't seen her. It has rained most the day. I don't have much to say. That is way I don't need a blog but I did like reading your comments. That was the most fun part. We love reading yours, Love ya, Mom

Craig not wanting his picture taken. Since I am doing this I can put any picture on I want. The fall, winter and especially spring are wonderful in Az. You might like it!

Back Splash

Hi, Sym is making me do this. Now she is not here and I don't know if I'm doing this right. Our back splash is finally done!! I like it. Mom