Thursday, March 11, 2010

Keeping up with the Rollings.......

Again, time is flying by like always. Justin and I have been very busy lately and it's only getting worse each day! We have had so many big decisions and changes lately I haven't even had much time to tell anyone anything.

Justin received very exciting news about a month ago at work. His boss decided he deserved a very very nice raise which he agreed! Haha, so after that wonderful news we decided to put our house on the market to just do it. Shortly afterwards we decided to just start checking out neighborhoods and homes to get a feel for everything. So we found some homes and neighborhoods we really loved and so we went with our realtor to just browse. After going to one of our favorite neighborhoods we found out that the company that develops some neighborhoods in Birmingham called Signature Homes, which developed two of the neighborhoods we loved, offers a deal to some clients where they buy your home from you so you can build a new bigger home in one of there neighborhoods. So immediately Justin thought there had to be a catch somewhere but we were reassured by the agent that it cost nothing to just check to see if they would possible want to do the deal with us. So we said it wouldn't hurt to check. So our realtor and the agent swapped info and the agent said she would let us know if we would be able to get the deal. So that following Monday our realtor called us and told us Signature Homes had decided they would like to make a deal with us. She told me the details and I called Justin to tell him. Signture told us they wanted to buy our home and while we were building our new home we still could try and sell it on our own but at our closing on new home if our old home was not sold then they would buy it for the amount they offered. So after talking about it all we took the deal and we are currently going through the whole building a home process. We have had our first plan review meeting where we went over all the pre-framing stuff, this Friday we are having our first decorator meeting where we will pick out the exterior, floors, cabinets, and countertops. Our estimated close date is June 30th but could change depending on weather. Which it has been pouring rain all week so far so who knows. We haven't had much luck on people interested in our home but maybe someone will buy it but if not Signature is! :) So that's our current exciting news....I will be posting pictures as the house comes along.










So besides the house we are attending weddings, wedding showers, and baby showers. It has taken over my life and I literally have one of the 3 every single weekend until late June. Some of them are overlapping each other. So we are trying to make everythig possible! We have 5 people we are close to having children, includng Kris and Jeff. The remainder are all weddings and stuff. So we will be exhausted by the end of the summer to say the least.

Work is going good for us both which a major plus these days, so keep praying it will continue this way. We are hoping we can take a trip to somewhere for our anniversary but we will see.

We have been "trying" to eat healthy dinners and we like them so far. Some better than others. Of course I can not saty 100 % commited but I have to have my sweets! :)