happy happy happy!!!!!!!!

So the offer on the second house was out bid by someone so oh well, i dont really care because we finally have a house!!! and let me tell you the story behind it.

So when ty was a baby and he wouldnt go to sleep i would drive him around in the car with classical music to get him to go to sleep, (side note: some parents are against that but i dont see why) and it would always get him to fall asleep. When Jake and i started dating he would come with me and we got in this habit of going around looking at all of the for sale houses and then taking the flyers and guessing how much they were selling for. It was a fun game. On our drives we came across these new condos that were being built all over the place by the same builder and i loved them!!! we went to every one and went through the model homes and i have always always wanted to live in one. when we decided to move out of our apartment a couple years ago, they were selling the last of the condos and had a huge "sale" on them, so i asked how much a 3 bedroom was and it was like 255k which is more then we could afford, obviously. so that was out, but for the last 2 years whenever i pass one i always see if they are renting some out and nobody has. So when i was about to give up on the house search one of those condos popped up on our list with 4 bedrooms (2 master bedrooms and 2 kid) 3 baths and below our price!!! holy cow i flipped out! i called the realtor, James, and Jake and we went to look at the condo. I told them that i wasnt going to get excited about the house because i knew we wouldnt get it, they normally were way more expensive, it is a super new house and there is no way we wouldnt get out bid. So we went for fun. Well then we made an offer for fun. And they freaking accepted our offer!!!!!!!! And the FHA doesnt have to do an inspection because it was built in 2005 so everything is good with it. So we have no problems there. Well really we have no problems at all we are just waiting for all of the paperwork. I am so excited!! I have always wanted to live in one of these and it's perfect, beyond perfect. James has a master bedroom on his own floor and we have one on our own floor, it has room for everyone, enough room for all of the toys we have. It's just perfect! I cannot believe that with all of the crap we have been through (we've been looking since April!), we end up with my dream condo. The boys are a little upset that it doesnt have a yard, but it has a pool that we dont have to take care of! Here's a picture, its not an actual picture of the one we are moving into but it looks just the same, it the 3 story one.

on another note...Ty has been having a lot of accidents lately and it is getting really annoying. He keeps getting distracted and just waits until the last second and then runs to the bathroom but doesnt make it. I dont understand what's going on with that.

Jake has needed a new phone for like 2 years and we finally went to the store and Verizon was having a deal where you can buy one get one free on Blackberry Storms and so we both got one!! i love it! Having the internet on my phone with a huge screen is awesome! and i downloaded the Twilight Saga on my phone so i can read it wherever i want.

im going crazy!

so the FHA did an inspection on the house we've been waiting to close on for the last 6 months and they said that it needed 17,500 bucks worth of stuff to fix before we could buy it. So we could either have the bank fix it or we could move in and have like 30 days before they came back to check and make sure we did it. Well we were already planning on doing most of it anyways, but some of it we needed the bank to do and they said no. So we are not getting that house and the bank put it back up on the market as a cash only buy. Which in my opinion is super super dumb on their part. but oh well. So we have been house hunting and put a bid on a really cute house on thursday and hopefully we will get that one. there wont be any problems with it and it will close fast but they still have to accept our offer first. If they dont accept it then jake and i are going to get an apartment until we get a freaking house because there is nothing that is worth staying here longer. I want to cry every night. But i haven't yet because at least i know that i chose this and i can leave if i want, we arent stuck here and we'll be out of here next month no matter what.

And on Wednesday James is taking ty to Philly for his family vacation. His whole family is going, it's like a family reunion and he'll be gone for 5 days. I am going to be so sad, i hate that he's going on a plane without me, going across the country with me, meeting some of his family for the first time without me, and going to see all of the historical things there without me. I hate being away from him. : ( Tyler assured me though that jake will be here for me and give me whatever i want, and he said he will call me everyday and give me a flower when he comes back... i dont know where he gets this stuff from he is such a suck up.

i guess i blogged to soon...

remember when i wrote that we would be in our house next week!??!?! well, ha yeah right! We got a call that next week that said everything was done and we would be in in 24-48 hours we just needed the title and keys. Well literally 3 hours after they called us the lender got raided by the US Govnt and got shut down for illegal activity. It's not some little company either they own 10% of the market right now. So now we have to start all over again with a new company and so far everything is good. But remember how we moved in to jakes parents house for just a week or two well, now we are stuck here. I seriously want to cry every day. I feel like a failure even though we voluntarily moved out & we could still afford our house but were trying to not end up paying rent and a mortgage in one month. But who's laughing now....(i dont know if that's the right thing to say or not but i am NOT laughing!!!) Jake's parents are nice, his dad is great but his mom has a disability that causes her to stay home most of the time and she is now nocturnal, so we hardly ever see her but when we wake up the house (mostly the kitchen) is a mess. She leaves dishes everywhere, not even in the sink (let alone washing them out or anything), they are just everywhere. And Jake's sister is complete opposite of me and it's really hard. She is older then us and still lives at home, has a bachelor's degree but is working at Payless. When she's not at work she just watches TV or plays video games, nothing productive, ever. And her kitchen habits are worse then her mom's. She will cook a TV dinner then put the whole thing on a plate (not empty it on to a plate, she'll put the container and everything on a plate) then when she's done she will put the whole thing, including the container and the plate that isnt dirty in the sink. I have no clue why she doesnt eat out of the container then throw it away!!!! And i really wouldnt complain but jake and i are the only ones doing dishes so we have to deal with it. Maybe i should be grateful, but really we didnt want to live here for more then 2 weeks, this was not the plan. and then to be constantly cleaning up after everyone it just really really ticks me off, they are worse then Tyler.

And BTW if any of you have seen my car before you must know that i am a very messy person so it takes a lot for me to complain about someone else being messy..

So this new company promised us that we would close by sept. 30th so everyone please pray that it goes through and i dont pull my hair out and keep my mouth shut while we're here.

why is life so crazy?!?!?!?

so i got a job at a photography studio, which is awesome. I only work like 4 hours a day so i get to stay home with ty most of the day then when i go to work i drop off ty with James & his family so we dont have to pay for freaking daycare! I dont think I'm going to learn too much from my job but at least i can learn some poses and get to know what people want to buy before i go off to whatever is next. Our studio is in Baby's R Us and even though i dont work for Baby's R Us i still get a 10% discount! so that is awesome. But working in a store full of baby crap is making my uterus go crazy! I think we're going to need a baby pretty soon...

We finally got a call that we can move in to our house next week! finally!!! we were suppose to move in in June, and now it wont be until almost aug. but at least it's almost done. For the last couple weeks we moved in to jake's parents house so that our landlord could get the house ready for the next people who are going to rent the house. It kind of sucks but his parents are in Alaska right now so they aren't here. But at least we didnt have to pay for rent.

Last night the wind blew over part of our fence and our dog ran away. We cant find her but we're not giving up yet. Ty is really sad but he said if we cant find her we can just get another dog but it has to be a boy this time and we can't yell at him so he doesnt run away like maddy.

Anyway, everything is wonderful right now, i think we found the perfect balance so that i can spend more time with ty but yet still have a job and have it be something i like doing. And ty likes it too!

long time no blog...

yo!

1. i am not longer working, long story but it is wonderful! I've always wanted to stay home with ty and i wanted to do it before he went to school which will be next year (!!!) so had to do it soon. Obviously it is hard, but way worth it. I cannot stand having someone else raise my kid no matter how much money i made, it's just not worth it. Ty says he likes it better too.

2: we are still closing on the house, i've never bought one before but i bet they are usually not this difficult. We are completely re-doing the kitchen and getting all new carpet through the mortgage so everyone is taking forever with the paperwork for that. lame. But hopefully it will be soon that we get to move, everyone is ready. here is a picture. The picture is very deceiving, the house is actually 2300 sq feet so it's big, but it goes back instead of out, if that makes sense. I'll take better pictures once it's all done and pretty.

3. I'm taking this time with ty to pack and spend time with him obviously but also to work on my photography hobby, which is super fun. I am a part of several groups online that critique your photos and tell you what you can do better, they also have contests every day and every week and i am winning a ton of them, i would say about 75% of the ones i enter i win, by a lot too. So that is very encouraging. I'm also going to take a couple classes either this summer or in the Fall at PVCC, which will also be good.

4. I cannot wait for New Moon to come out, i feel like since they finished filming there has been no news about The Twilight Saga at all and it's driving me nuts! I need something new to happen ASAP!

The past several days have been insane for me. It's been non-stop craziness. We all found a house that we like, it needs a completely new kitchen and new carpet, but we can do that. It has 5 bedrooms plus another one that was used for a bedroom but is a bit small, so we would use it as a toy room. It's 2300 square feet and has a nice back yard with lots of room for the kids to play. We are making an offer on it right now, so we'll see what happens. On Saturday i went to take pics for my sisters prom. I have to say that a lot of them turned out really good. I think I'm getting the hang of making my black and white pictures not so grey, it's hard. You can see them here... www.flickr.com/photos/30044222@N05/sets/72157617404283228/
and my mom made my sisters dress, it turned out amazing! i cant believe it looked that good, i know my mom is a good seamstress but wasn't expecting it to look store bought.

so remember the short blog in which i wrote that we had a new receptionist and that people were saying that they hoped it wasn't a problem because she was black. Then i went on to say that it was completely ridiculous that people thought that way. do you remember? probably not. but i did. Well that little (insert whatever really really bad word you want here) straight up lied to my boss and got me in trouble. On top of the completely fabricated story she told my boss she also told them that she overheard me saying racist comments to someone else about her. While i was sitting there getting in trouble for absolutely nothing i was speechless because i had no clue where this was coming from. I don't know if Ive ever said anything remotely close to racist in my life. So whatever. I have come to notice that she is the type of person that plays the race card. She has made several comments to numerous people about race and i have also heard her say "anti-white" (whatever that is called) remarks to people too. My boss who hates me didn't even listen to me when i was trying to tell him that everything she said was a lie. He said, "we believe her because she has nothing against you." Well she obviously has something against me if she made up a story, called me a racist, then got me in trouble.

I think i am going to stop this insanity before i get too upset. I hope everyone has a good week!

babies babies all over

this weekend was fun but short. We were looking at houses every spare second we had. lame. On Saturday night we watched Piper, my friends baby while she went on a date.

And on Thursday i went to visit Lucia and her baby who doesnt have a name yet but i'm going to call him Jude because i think that's what they are going to decide on. He is soooo cute!

All these freaking babies make me want one so bad!

So this morning i woke up super super early because the news said that they shut down filming of New Moon (the 2nd twilight movie) because the author of the books are being sued for stealing the idea from her college roommate. I flipped out and looked on-line and some sites said that it was true!! but they didn't get their facts straight because they are still filming. now i am up early and it sucks.