Ok. It has been a while since I updated this so this posting in going to be really long, but will include pics when I'm done. So. As far as the housing situation we are still not in one yet. The house that we offered on and that I talked about in the last post is long gone, sold to someone else. Right now we have a bid on a nice 3000 sqaure foot rambler in West Valley off of 3400 S. and 5100 W, it was built in 1997. It is in a great location and is something that we could stay in for a long time since it is so big. This house needs a lot of work. The patio that was put in the back yard wasn't layed properly and is breaking up. The people living there before had a hot tub that they drained and ended up flooding the basement because of the bad patio pad. Well. They never bothered to take care of it and now there is a bunch of mold down there. The roof also needs work cause it wasn't sealed properly and water was leaking into the attic, which is also moldy, and has also ruined the drywall in the main bathroom and one of the bedrooms. Dan's brother manages properties and knows what things cost to fix and so he came in and gave us a bid. We are so glad that he came and took a look at it cause he found lots of stuff that we missed. The asking price was 185,000 but we offered 190,000 asking for 25,000 in concesions. Well. They countered and said that they wouldn't give us any concesions so we countered back at 165,000 thinking that they would counter again. Well. In the middle of this someone comes in and offers 185,000. We were getting really good communication with the agent selling the house before but now she is ignoring us. That is cause we are no longer the only offer. Well. The home is still scheduled to be sold at foreclosure sale on the 21st of July. We hope that who ever bid either gets it inspected and runs or that they don't qualify for financing. We are hoping it ends up going to foreclosure so we can go to the sale and talk to the bank that buys it back. If it goes we could probably pick it up from the bank out of REO for cheaper. So. That one is on hold. Before we offered on that one we offered on another one that was built in 2007 and is the same square footage. This one is off 5600 west and about 4500 south. The asking price was 200,000 and it is a short sale. We kinda don't like how far west it is but we offered anyway and we offered low. we offered 184,000 and then forgot about it. Well. I went to fill out the paper work for the house that needs all the work and noticed we had forgotten to include closing costs on the house off of 5600 west. We hadn't heard back on it and were insterested in increasing our offer cause we found another place we could pull money from. Well. When our agent went to check on the status of the offer we were told that our offer was in at the bank and that we were the only offer on the home. I got a little nervous since the contract didn't include closing costs. We found that since we offered so low we would still be able to cover the closing costs just in case they took the offer. Well. The agent selling that one won't get back to us either. I'm soooo irritated that people won't return messages. I just want a yes or no. I hate this hurry up and wait crap! So. Hopefully the other home goes to foreclosure and isn't postponed. So. That is the update on the housing situation. Now I'll update on what has been going on lately.

Well. A few weeks ago Dan finished one of his summer classes that was accelerated. He got an A! HOORAY!!! He is so smart! :) I'm very proud of him. He has about 3 or 4 more weeks of the other class and then about 2 weeks of nothing till he starts fall semester. We went to "This is the Place" state park on the 29th of June. It was a lot of fun. It was a bit warmer that we would have liked and I was dumb enough not to wear sunscreen so I got really burned. They have a bunch of crafts for the kids to do so Addi made a rag doll, deocrated a draw string bag, branded a peice of wood and we all did some leather stamping. We made magnets out of the leather stamping and she makes new pictures every day to hang up on the fridge with those magnets. She also tried to ride the pony. She thought it was cool until she got closer to it and then she freaked out and wouldn't let go of me. It was pretty funny. I'll post a picture even though I look gigantic in it. They also had a little train there that went around a small pond. She loved it. For the 4th of July we went camping with Dan's family up in Midway. It was really warm during the afternoon but we had electricity in our camp ground so we took a little drive to Heber (enjoying the nice airconditioning in the car) and bought a little fan from the Walgreens (can you believe they still don't have a Walmart?! It is coming soon though) we took it back to camp and pluged it in and we all enjoyed its amazing cooling power. We had fun watching the firework show. Both the kids did pretty good with the noise. Addi had a blast exploring and sleeping in her own sleeping bag on her own air mattress. It sure was nice to get away for a while. We went fishing while we were there at a little pond and Addi caught a fish right away but didn't want to have anything to do with it when Dad realed it in. Well. The most recent thing that happened was that we all got sick except for Dan. Xander got it first. He was just really congested and that started last friday night. By Sunday I had a sore throat and he was a lot more congested. We went to mom Terry's to play games on Sunday and Addi ended up puking her guts out. I'm pretty sure she is allergic to clams in clam chowder. I remember her getting sick the last time I fed it to her. So. Monday Dan stayed home from work to take care of us all. I took Xander in to get checked and they said that he just had a cold. They weighed him and I was shocked! He weighed 17.5 Ibs. He is only 3 and a half months old!! I love his little roles though. Well. On Tuesday Addi started with the cold and ran a little bit of a fever. The last week has been pretty rough for me trying to take care of sick kids and my sick self. We are all doing a lot better now and so far Dan hasn't come down with it. I hope he doesn't end up getting it. Well. Hopefully I can keep this up a bit better now that things have calmed down a little. O! I forgot to mention. My brother Walter got engaged on the 29th of June. Congrats to him. He will be gettin hitched to Kristen Yates. She is from Virginia but currently living in Provo and going to BYU. I'm excited to gain another sister in law. I need to get a pic of the two of them and post it. I'll get it up as soon as I track one down.