What a bunch of Twonks!

Well it looks like I have some bad news. Some terrible awful news about sad and depressing things. Some news that’ll make you run to your window and scream with tragic enthusiasm that “these floors are dirty as hell (which WOULD be pretty dirty I imagine) and I’m not going to take it anymore!” Well…. Ok. Maybe I’m over exaggerating certain parts of transpired events while down playing others in an attempt to build suspense and make the reader (i.e. YOU) wonder ever more what this thing is which has set off a mood resembling that of a bombinated twinkie. (ok that was random, but it IS in the dictionary) So as you can probably gather, Nikki and I went looking at houses again this weekend. Things went well. We were able to find many more promising houses than what we’ve previously run across. Of course this is partially due to our acceptable price range creeping ever northward. However, the luck we had this weekend was very notable. In fact we found 3 houses that we were very impressed with and considering as finalists. Curiously enough, all 3 of them were within just a few blocks of each other. As Saturday afternoon came we found ourselves wondering which of these to look into further. After some long discussions, we came to the conclusion that we wanted to make an offer on one of them. The decision was mutual and we are both very excited. We met with the owners and began negotiations on the price, closing costs, included items and all kinds of goodies related to purchasing a home. After about an hour of conversing we were able to agree on a price and the terms surrounding it. We will be meeting the lady tonight to sign a formal contract and officially start the purchase process. Basically, we have just begun to buy a house. At this point, many of you may have some questions. They are probably along the lines of “What was the bad news?” or “What is this house like?” and possibly even “Where might this property be located?” well fear not cadets. The home was built in 2003, is about 2500 square feet and sits on .28 acres. It is located in a very nice and newer neighborhood in Payson. Yeah Yeah I hear you all grumbling. It’s really not much further that Lehi was from Orem. For those living in AF and PG it may be a bit further than that. Anyway it has 4 bedrooms, an office, a front room, a family room, an actual theater room (Quake room!) 3 bathrooms, plenty of storage and all kinds of other goodies that I’m sure most people don’t care too much about (and yes it does have a kitchen too). Anyway, the bad news is that I’ll probably have to pass on the purchase of my Glock for now ( :-( whimper) but I think it’ll be something I get within the next year so I’m not too sad about it. The sellers are building a house in Spanish Fork (or Springville, I get those two confused a lot) and it should be complete by around the end of June. This means that we would probably be closing on the house at the end of June. Nikki and I are very excited and ready to be done with the whole “living at my parents house while searching for one of our own” phase and looking forward to starting the “moving into our lovely new home with cool features and all kinds of niceness and maybe possibly if the planets align right and we just plain feel like it starting to try for a baby” phase! Yes I said it! Nikki and I just maybe might be thinking about starting to have a baby in the next year. This is more of a forced decision as I think waiting too much longer would result in us having children around long after we wanted them gone (which will probably happen anyway). But yes, it is something we need to start thinking about. And with us now having a house that we’ll probably be in for about 10 years, my mother is going to start hounding on me to “get busy.” Anyway, I’ll keep you all updated as details become available.