Almost time to leave for church...

I have decided that I won't really be able to catch up with what all we've been up to on here, considering it's been weeks since I last really wrote of the goings on in the Slade household, so I am just going to start anew and try to do better with this...

I am sitting in our living room enjoying this amazing Sunday morning. I'm very excited to leave for church in a little under 30 minutes, although it looks like little Daniel might have to be woken from his nap unless we wakes up sometime soon. :o( Scott is looking on his computer for various 'house projects' as we approach the day we'll be moving into our NEW HOME! :o) Yep, we just put a contract on a house out in Fruita, which is super exciting for us! We started looking for homes about a month ago after trying to decide for awhile whether or not we should buy one. We had been wanting to move out of our little apartment for awhile now, especially as it gets more and more filled up with all of Daniel's things. We have loved this apartment, but we are so ready for a bigger kitchen, nice backyard, and an extra room for office space and my scrapbook stuff! ;o) SO, we began looking around at houses for sale after seeing how expensive the rental duplexes and houses were. Although we don't know when we'll be moving with Marathon Scott talked to many of the guys he works with and other people who are familiar with the company and they all encouraged us to actually buy a house, knowing that when we do move they take really good care of us and if we can't sell the house within 2 or 3 months, they buy it from us so we have the money to rent or buy in the new place. That made us feel much better, so we got ourselves pre-approved for a loan and began the process of finding our first house! We were not planning on looking in Fruita at first considering Scott works in GJ and we do many things here all through the week, but then realized it really isn't that far away (15 - 20 min. from most places in GJ), so we looked out there this past week and fell in love with a couple of houses that were actually right across the street from each other! We ended up calling my parents and having them come out to inspect the places more thoroughly with us and decided to go with this one after realizing the other one would require much more work and money to get it fixed up (and there was only $3000 difference between the two). We thought about it and prayed and decided to go ahead and place an offer on it and they accepted the offer a few days ago! We are super, duper excited!



The house is a very pretty place in a great neighborhood! (I am including a picture of the outside on here... It's not the greatest picture because I took it really fast on Scott's phone.) It is 1900 sf, which is definitely bigger than we were looking for, but compared to the homes in GJ we could definitely get more for our money in Fruita. It has 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, an amazing kitchen, gigantic dining room, and a gas fireplace in the living room. The backyard is a nice size and very pretty, with two patios out there. We can finally BBQ which is super exciting for us! And, even though we probably won't be in the house longer than two years :o(, there is a swing-set in the backyard that the previous owners kept there that Daniel will love once he's older! I will try to get pictures up at some point when we get back out there to see it yet again. I have a few now, but they are not the greatest. We still have to wait for the inspection sometime this next week or two to see if that passes before we have it for sure and then the closing date will hopefully be sometime early next month.

Yesterday we went around looking at carpet, lawn mowers, blinds, grills, deep freezers, and many other things we don't really need right now, which was a lot of fun. We are going to be replacing and adding some carpet in most of the rooms because there is a hole in the carpet in Daniel's bedroom and then right now there is Pergo in the living room and hallway that was put in NOT so well at all! (There are gaps in various places all over the room!) Since we had to take that out and try to fix it anyway, we've decided to leave it in the dining room and try to fix those gaps, but to put carpet through the hallway and living room mainly because of little Daniel who will have much more fun on soft carpet moving around than on the hard floor.

Okay, there is so much more I could say, but it's time for church so we better go wake up our still sleeping little one. :o( He's still in his cute PJs but I'm guessing we'll just have to keep him in them unless he wakes up as we transport him to his carseat.