Oh my goodness it's been a long time since I posted! I really hope this blog doesn't end up like my journal, where every few years I open it and tell it that "Hey! I'm married now!" or "Hey! We bought a house, 3 years later got pregnant, had a baby, had the house bought by UDOT, and now it's turning into a road!" Yeah, that's pretty much how I have to sum up my journal entries because of the long gaps. Anyway, I'm going to try to do better. :)
I'm afraid that this post won't have any pictures because I'm just too darn lazy to put them on here. I wish that blogger had an option to upload more than 5 pictures at a time, because I really do have a lot of them, but I hate waiting and then organizing and then having to write everything later. I'd rather write now, and eventually sometime down the road post a picture. Who knows, I may get really ambitious and post 1 picture when I'm done ranting! :) However it will stay at the top of the post so that I don't have to move it anywhere. :)
So life is insane - no other way to put it. After Jon was accepted to school I was all gung ho about getting ready to move to Arizona, but unfortunately there really was nothing I could do at that time, so I got all excited and then life fell flat for a bit. We bought a broken 2009 Ford Edge and a broken 2000 Audi TT and set to fixing them so we could sell them later and hopefully be able to buy a house. This took up every spare minute we had.
And then there was March. The last 2 weeks in March were a little crazy - I made a super cute Tutu and wings for Sophie to wear to her cousin Emily's 1st birthday party - turned out awesome and the girls were so cute! Immediately following the party we raced up to Cache Valley to drop her off at my Mom's house, stayed for dinner, and drove home around midnight. Then at 7AM the next morning we hurried and packed up all of our stuff (much faster than packing for Sophie, I must say!) and started driving. And we drove. And drove. And drove. Then, we stopped for lunch. And then we drove a bunch more. You get the idea. It was a 10 hour drive to Phoenix, but the drive down really wasn't that bad. We got there Sunday night and relaxed in the hotel room, and then starting Monday morning we looked at a bunch of rental properties in the Glendale/Peoria areas while we waited to see if we were preapproved for a home loan. Later that day we were (Yay!) and so Tuesday was spent golfing in the morning and then looking at possible houses to buy. Oh the thought of owning my own house again...makes me drool. We found out what areas we liked and found a house that we LOVED! Unfortunately we couldn't make an offer on it yet, because our loan was only approved with the expectation that we could put 20% down. Not a problem, these homes are all under $100K, so as soon as we sold the cars we had been working on we'd be set! So we got everything set with the realtor (whom I LOVE! Her name is Kim Kohlhase if anyone is moving to that area you can google her name and you'll find her - she's amazing!) and went back to the hotel to rest and get ready to leave in the morning. The plan was to go to bed early so we could leave early, but wouldn't ya know it, I GOT FOOD POISONING!!! Yeah, I spent the night running into the bathroom at least once an hour for some painful and miserable puking. I'd try to take a drink of water, and I would throw it up an hour later. So I'd try eating an ice cube, and I'd still puke it up. It was aweful. This finally ended around 4AM, so I got about 3 hours of sleep before we had to leave, but I was still sick sick sick. Needless to say, the drive back was not as nice.
Since coming home we finished both of the cars and was able to sell the Audi, but still can't find a buyer for the Ford. Which sucks, because that's the one that's worth $26,000. It's way nice and there's nothing wrong with it, but if someone can afford buying a car for $23,000 (which is what we have it listed for) then they generally don't buy from KSL. So that is my frustration right now. We need to move down to AZ at the end of next month, so if we want to buy a house, we need to sell the car in the next week, maybe 2. If we don't sell it, then we'll keep it (which I really don't mind that part!) and just rent for the next three years. (NOTE: we've done the calculations and we'll save 10's of thousands of dollars by buying, so you can see why we'd want to do that) I just hate situations where I don't know the outcome.
In other news - Sophia is still as adorable as ever. :) We had an Easter party here with the Hunter family (I planned it) and she loved the egg hunt! She didn't get very much candy, because she's a lot slower than the bigger kids, but it didn't matter because she still had a blast finding the eggs and candy and putting them in her basket. It was so much fun! I waited a LONG time (okay, not long for some, but long for me!) to be able to enjoy that, and I definitely did. :)
Well, I think this will be all for now. When I get a few minutes to spare I'll be posting some pictures and such, and hopefully Jon, Sophie and I will be getting family pictures soon so I can post those as well. Now, I'm off to do a mountain of laundry that's been taunting me for a while, wish me luck!
And look, I even posted a picture for you. :)
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