Psyche

Wow I haven't said 'psyche' in a long time. I'm glad I said 'potential' new diggs in my last post.....because turns out the deal fell through.

It's a long horribly annoying story to tell, but to sum up: to get an FHA loan on a house you have to have either less than 10% of the complex FHA, or 100% of the complex FHA. . . and apparently just barely 10% of the townhouses in the complex were FHA. Soooo, we could have either waited for all 99 townhouses to get FHA approved (would take months) or we could have tried to get a conventional loan. So, we tried to do conventional - but turns out the rules have changed on conventional and you now have to put down 10% of the house in a downpayment for condos/townhouses for conventional. Yeah. We don't exactly have 15k lying around to put down.

Hence, we are still in our apartment! Luckily our contract isn't up till August 20th.

But that also means.. we have to find a place, be closed, moved. . by August 20th.

Yikes.

Potential new diggs

I say potential because we still have to close . . but everything else is pretty finalized! The appraisal was just above what we got it for (which is good!), they fixed everything from the inspection, and now we just have to close on Thursday and if all goes well we'll be moving this coming week! We still have our apartment for the next month (no one seemed to want to sublet for just one month on craigslist, go figure). Yay for having a landlord that sells your contract after telling you that you can find someone to take your spot. . oy.

It is a little townhouse in Murray near the new hospital up there. We'll be 15min from downtown SLC and about 35/40 min from Provo. Chris starts research at the U next week, and I'll be . . . commuting! Ugh. Hopefully I'll have more luck and will be able to find a job in SLC in this crazy economy..but until then I get to commute at 4:45am 3x a week. yikes. The other two days I'll still be commuting, just not quite so early.

Here are some picts for your viewing pleasure.

The nice 80's exterior..

Main floor living . .

Basement. .

Upstairs bath. .

and my fave. . a garage!

So at this moment we are packing up and getting ready to haul our life 30 miles north! Turns out we have more stuff than I thought! Exact moving date . . still to be determined. Saturday or Monday. Or both. Or beyond.

Happy 4th and a Happy Birthday!

Hello blogger world! I promise I am still alive! We have been so busy lately that I haven't had time to devote to bloggingdom!

Happy Independence Day! My second favorite holiday! I can't believe July is already here, the year is flying by I tell ya. To celebrate the 4th we did what we do best, we went down the Provo River and had a blast! No mishaps at the bridge of death this time, thank the heavens. The weather was perfect, and the company even more so. Along with some of our fam, our friends Pete and Chrizelle went with us. Pete is our brother in law's brother, and his wife Chrizelle is my friend/co-worker from South Africa who recently created a blog about Africa titled: Africa is a Continent (and South Africa is a country), they are hilarious. Here is our jump in point up by Deer Creek Reservoir (which is full now, by the way, all the way up to the beach)! So if anyone wants to ride the Provo riv with us sometime this summer, let us know! We love love love it!

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And last week we celebrated Chris's 26th birthday! Downhill slope to 30 here we come! Chris had been waiting for the iphone to come out with the 32gig for quite some time, and as they came out with it the week before his bday he got one as his present! And don't you think for a second that he doesn't have the light-saber app. And it is exactly what it sounds like...an application where you can swirl your phone around and have it sound and light up exactly like a light saber. Oh technology, you have gone too far.

Since Chris was so excited about his bday iphone, I decided to make a longitude/latitude scavenger hunt for his bday. He was able to do the hunt with his handy dandy iphone gps and even his fancy iphone compass. Destinations included: pizza & a park for a picnic, a hike, and the transformers movie (which really underwhelmed me by the by). The hike at Battle Creek Falls in Pleasant Grove was totally awesome! If anyone is interested in getting drenched by a waterfall on a hot summer day, I highly suggest it.

Chris in all his 26yr old glory

So there you have it! An amazing 4th and even funner birthday. Coming soon . . a camping rainout and our potential new diggs ~