Life is crazy!

Well, this past week has been really challenging. Poor Mr. Bumbles has been sick. Yesterday and today he has had a really bad productive cough, to the point where he sometimes chokes when he coughs, and we can hear him through his monitor coughing throughout the night. I feel so bad for him, he looks and acts like he is so miserable, but he does his best to keep up beat and play with his toys. It started with the ear infection discovery on Wednesday. I was giving him a bath and washing his ear, when he grabbed his ear, like he was saying, "Stop, touching that! It hurts!" and sure enough he has a really bad ear infection.

Most of our friends and family don't know this, but Mr. Sweetie and I have been casually looking at a possible home that we could pick out together, in a neighborhood (and ward) with more kids, and a little farther away from such a major road, since about last September/Octoberish. It started out more like a hobby, it was excititing to think about a new home and where we would like to live. We started looking in Bluffdale (close to the point of the mountain, for those who are a little familiar with the Salt Lake Valley), but houses just weren't in the right locations for us, and Bluffdale is really quite far from our parents, so we moved on to the city of Riverton, there were a few homes of interest, but then Mr. Sweetie found some homes in the "country" in Herriman, less noise is very appealing to both of us. There was a certain neighborhood with such beautiful houses we thought we found something in our price range that would be a really good deal and ideal for our requirements. We drove out there several times to check the noise barrier. And it was heavenly quiet. Then Mr. Sweetie found a development just in the beginning stages, across the street called Lafayette. While talking to the realtor in the model home we realized that we could definately afford to buy a lot and build a home, then unfortunately in that same conversation we found out a major road outlet would be built right next to this housing development.

So we went back to Riverton and some possible neighborhoods, but we had also been driving to a specific neighborhood in South Jordan and other neighborhoods in this same area. We started researching lots in these neighborhoods, since we had a ball park of how much it would be to build a house, and found this could possibly work for us.

We hadn't really been serious about actually making an offer on anything, until last Sunday when looking at a house way out of our price range (where the realtor happened to be there showing it to someone else), both of us felt we should make an offer on the lot of land we had been eyeing in this same neighborhood. Well, to make a long story a little shorter, we finally had the chance to go over the finances and build a spredsheet of all the numbers (which kept us into the wee hours of the morning), we decided on an offer and told the realtor we wanted to meet with him. (We had contacted him a few weeks before to give us more information on this lot, when we weren't too serious about it)

So, we made an offer on Friday and unfortunately another couple put an offer in on Thursday night before we were to meet with the realtor, but they let the seller know we were in the process to make an offer so they waited for ours. The seller did not give a counter offer, but came back to both of us and said for each of us to give them our biggest and best offer by 10 am Monday. How stressful is that? Our realtor is also the same person representing the property and can't give us any advice or tips on what to do. He did give us information on recent offers that didn't go through and what the seller countered, it has helped, but not that much.

So this is where we are at, when Mr. Sweetie gets back from his Sunday meetings we will call our realtor and give him the counter offer. We have prayed so much about this, that we know what happens will be what needs to happen and we will go from there. Our realtor is in contract with us for 6 months, so he will help us find something if this doesn't work out. We are really impressed with this guy, he is straight forward, tells us like it is, but is very personable too. I am nervous, but still hopeful!