Vegas Gronnings: December 2010

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas Day!

My present from Cody!

DESPICABLE MikE! (cute movie)

We are matching!

Little Messy!

Christmas Eve was pretty calm. Cody was with Melissa's family this year so it was just Mike, Shellie and I. We got hot chocolate from the 7-11 and drove around looking at Christmas lights. We let Shellie open a family present-it was Jenga. We played that a few times and snacked all night.

Christmas Eve Eve(Dec 23rd)

Ethel M's Chocolate Factory and Cactus Gardens!

Cody and Melissa

Posing!

Shellie poses better than her parents!

Cute Santa!

Saturday, December 18, 2010

The new house

Who knew buying a home was such an exhausting process. Our house buying story started several months ago. We have always loved the house across the street from ours. Most recently it was a rental but we noticed it was empty in February and wondered if they were going to sell it. Mike and I had toyed with the idea that we might want to buy a second house and rent ours out. We decided that if the house across the street was put up for sale we would try and buy it. As soon as I noticed the house stayed empty and no new renters, I just knew it was going to be for sale soon. This was May. We got approved for a home loan and 2 days later the house across the street went up for sale. It was Friday and by Monday we had our offer in. It was a short sale and the 2nd mortgage was larger than the first so to make a long story a little shorter, our offer was accepted by the 1st but not the 2nd and after 3 months we pulled our offer.

Then as luck would have it in late October it became a foreclosure and then became a Fannie Mae bank owned home. We immediately put another offer in($10,000 less than the offer in May) and it was accepted.

Fannie Mae would pay our closing costs if we closed before the end of the year. Date was set to close 12/17 or sooner. Appraisal came in at $10,000 less than our offer and Fannie Mae agreed to that new price. Now we were getting the house for $20,000 less than our original offer in May. Go figure!

Well we didn't close 12/17. Hiccup with the inspection and releasing the final appraisal papers to the underwriter. We had another inspection this week and now everything is back in the hands of the underwriter. We hope to get a closing date soon as the year is running out and we have renters ready to move in as of 12/28. So much for moving in before Christmas. And for those who really know me and are wondering.........yes I have had my house packed and ready for weeks now. Mike is frustrated that every time he goes to find something I already have packed it! I did bring the boxes that had our food back into the house at least! LOL

We will keep everyone posted and hope to have a closing date this week. But who really wants to move the weekend of Christmas? Ugh!

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Our Christmas Tree!!

Ok. So you know that point in one's life when you realize you might really have some "issues"? Well that hit me this weekend when I was at Target. We put up a smaller tree this year since we are moving to our new house the weekend before Christmas. It is a small white tree with white lights. I decorated it with purple(my fav) and silver. Picture is below. Then at Target yesterday while shopping for purple ribbon for my silver wrapped presents, I found ribbon that I fell in love with. It was a big package of ribbon and bows in Green, Pink and Turquoise. Well I just had to have it. But the purple & silver tree wouldn't match the presents! Sooooo I bought a few new ornaments in the exact colors of the ribbon and bows. I went home, took all the purple off and put on the new ornaments along with some I had boxed up from years gone by. Final tree is the picture at the bottom. I know.....I have issues!!!!