Quick update

Just thought I'd let you guys know where we are with the house. We are actually in limbo right now. We have everything lined up on our side, but we never got the title work from the seller's title company. So yesterday we finally got ahold of someone at the auction house who knows what's going on and is aware that it's not our fault that we can't close by tomorrow. We are hoping that she will be able to extend the closing date out for us so we can still buy the house. If she can't, we will get our deposit back and we guess the house will go back up for auction again. So we'll let you know when we hear more. Thanks for your prayers. Keep it up :).

My Class

So Monday is my last day in JR Smith Elementary in Heber. I'm going to miss my second grade class so much, I have fallen in love with them in such a short time. The kids are just so cute and so much fun, well most of the time anyway. I have learned so much and have had a great time. Yes, I still want to be a teacher. I am still trying to decide if I want to do student teaching or an internship, I still have some time to decide. Hope you all have a great thanksgiving. Love you!! The picture is of my class and Madeline Reber (my teaching partner).

THANKSGIVING

OK, so my parents are going to be out of town for Thanksgiving so, the family is all invited to come to our house. Of course, even if my parents were in town everyone could still come over. I don't know what time yet, we will have to discuss it with mom first.

Check out the house we bought

This is the house we bought at auction last week. We are waiting to hear from the bank whether or not they accept our bid, so until then we can't go forward with any mortgage stuff. I hate waiting. I wish they'd just let us know already!

Alright, to walk you through the pictures, so you know what you are looking at, first we start with the master bedroom which is on the main level. Then we move into the master bath. Don't you just love the built in jacuzzi tub? (not! we will actually be taking that out eventually) Then we move into the family room. The fireplace is a see through into the living room on the other side. The next room is a random smaller room off of the master and the family room, next to the dining room. We had contemplated making this another bedroom so everyone could have their own room, but Makayla and Chelsea want to share so we aren't going to worry about it. We'll probably just make this an extension of the family room. The next room is the dining room, the one with Makayla in the picture. Don't you just love that wall paper? (yuck!) We'd like to build the wall back between the dining room and that random room and put a pocket door there. We'd also like to put in a door wall off the dining room with some nice french doors and build a deck off the back of the house (of course this is way in the future). The next room is the kitchen. Whoever designed it sucked because that half wall is right in the middle of the room and totally cuts it up. We will definitely be changing the set-up of the kitchen as soon as we can. What's weird is that they actually used marble counter top too with particle board cupboards. I have no idea why you would use such expensive stuff with crap cupboards like they have. Next we have the another random room off the other side of the kitchen. We'd probably use this one as a pantry/den. Then there is the bathroom off the garage. There is a stand up shower in there with really nice tile, it just needs to be grouted and the there are laundry hook-ups in this bathroom too so we won't have to have the laundry in the basement (yeah!). Then the picture of Chelsea is the living room and the stairs lead to the upper floor. There are four bedrooms upstairs. I'm sorry that two of the bedrooms turned out dark. They really aren't that nice to look at anyway. The bathroom upstairs needs a lot of work. The floor, toilet and sink are all new, but the tub look like it might fall through the floor. So we'll have to address that issue at some point. We aren't sure how quick though if the other bathrooms function well enough. The last picture is of the view down the hall, to the bedrooms, from the top of the stairs. There are two bedrooms on the front of the house and two on the back, with the bathroom in the middle of the two in the back. I hope I've described it well enough. I will enjoy comparing these pictures to the new pictures as we fix the house. I think it will look so much nicer once we're finished with it.

Bonfire pictures

Here are my pictures from the bonfire.
http://picasaweb.google.com/hillaryahicks/BonfireAtTheHicks110108#

We won the house!

We went to the auction today to try to buy that house we put an offer on. We won the bid. We are pretty excited! Now we just have to get the paper work going for a mortgage because the closing deadline is Nov. 26th. We have to wait 7 to 10 business days for the bank to approve our bid and then we can close. We are hoping to get as much paper work finished as we can before we hear back from the bank so it won't take as long to close once we hear whether or not they accept the bid. Chances are good that they will accept, but we still have to wait. Then we have to pray that the house appraises for what we need the mortgage for which is $67,200. We actually bid $64,000, but there was a 5% auction fee tacked on top of that. So we are hoping to be new home owners by the day after Thanksgiving. This month will probably be a whirlwind of paperwork and stuff. Keep us in your prayers, please. :D

pics from kim 11-1-08

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all the pic i took to night 11-1-08

nov 1st