Moving and Waiting and More

We are super excited! The Smith family from our ward has decided to rent our house!!! Wahoo! We are so glad that we are able to rent it to people we know and trust! And the best part is their girls won't have to switch schools or wards - which is always scary when you have kids in middle school and high school!
They are in the process of painting all the rooms - the girls wanted blue and pink bedrooms. They are also tiling the front entry, both bathrooms and the laundry room because they had tile from their old house they wanted to use! It looks GREAT so far. Because the house definitely needed it and we really like their family we are also recarpeting the entire house. That should be done on Saturday. So in other words, our house is going to look AWESOME now that we won't live there. HA HA!

Anyway, we spent last week moving out of our house and into my dad's house! We have a storage unit here in Nampa that is SO PACKED! Oh my gosh! I don't think we could fit even one more thing in there. Unfortunately, we weren't able to fit either of our TVs in there either. So get this, we are living in one bedroom at my dad's that already had a twin day bed, huge bookcase, piano, wardrobe, and dresser in it. NOW we have added our queen air mattress, Ryker's pack and play, our clothes, Sadie and Copper's kennel, our tv stand and our 52" tv. HA HA HA it is so stinking TIGHT! But hey, I am just glad that I have a dad who is willing to put up with us and let us live here until we can finally move!

So on to the status of Justin's job and the real move to Idaho Falls. The last we heard it will probably be around the middle of October before his clearance goes through but it could be as late as the middle of November! Yikes! That means that we have to try to extend our closing date on the condo and hope that the seller is willing to do that. Really the house is still technically on the market so it won't be any different and we won't be out our $500 earnest money either.

We had a tense moment with our agent late last week.

Just a little background first. We had planned on closing with Bank of America and a lender that we know and trust here - Toni Wood. However, her underwriters require us to have Justin's first pay stubs. This is standard protocol just to assure that the amount he has been told he will make is the amount he actually will make. Anyway, so our agent in Idaho Falls asked if we would be willing to check out a lender she uses that might be able to have us close Justin's first day of work instead of waiting for his first pay stub. OF COURSE we are willing to check it out. However, I also wanted to check with our lender to see if they can do anything similar for us.

In the meantime, Justin got a phone call from our agent where she told him that she was talking with the listing agent and IF we agree to use their lender then the seller will work with us on the closing date. But if we insist of using our lender then there were no guarantees. Of course, that made Justin mad - we all know how well he likes to be told what to do, especially by the person who is supposedly working for us. He called and told me what happened so my hackle was raised. I called the broker at Group One to get her opinion on the matter. She explained that while it was in fact legal, it was not right to corner us like that and if she were her agent they would be having a serious conversation.

I spent the weekend thinking over the situation and decided that I don't think what our agent said was necessarily what she meant. I want to assume the best and as such I assume that she actually meant that the seller would want to close when Justin starts and not wait for pay stubs. So I emailed her, explained how it came across, and also explained what we hope she meant. I also told her that because it was better for us we did decide to go with their lender, but not because they told us to. I do feel better now because our agent called Justin and apologized over and over again for making him feel that way.

So hopefully things start rolling soon. We will need to paint and recarpet the condo before we can move in. Anyone interested in spending all day painting with us so we can get it done in a weekend rather than over the course of a couple weeks?

Kind of funny, I haven't actually been able to go to the doctor about the pregnancy yet because we don't have any insurance or money. (you kind of have to have a job to have either) I was able to go in to get an ultrasound just to make sure that it was a viable pregnancy, there was only one baby, etc. However, because of Justin's delayed security clearance (well it isn't delayed it just isn't in yet) I won't be able to go in to the doctor until after he starts. I am just about 12 weeks along! Wahoo done with the first trimester and hopefully the morning sickness soon as well. But with that being said, I will be 20 weeks on November 20th. Ha ha, I am thinking that my first doctors appointment will be when we find out what we are having! WAHOO! Ha ha! But really, it's all good. It should make the pregnancy go by faster, right? It's already gone by pretty quick.

Group One has asked me to come and work part time until we move. They need help around the office and it is a lot easier to bring me in then to try and train someone! Really good timing because our unemployment just ran out! It's an extra $900 - $1200 each month!

One last thought and then I'll end this rambling post! Because Justin and I are both done with school (finally) we no longer get free tickets to the football games. HOWEVER we do still have student ID cards that don't expire for another year. So we talked to some of our friends who are still in school and they gave us their student tickets to use. THANK YOU! But then when we were driving home from Twin Falls on Tuesday I received a phone call from the Boise State Athletic Department. We were selected as the American Family Insurance Family of the Game for Saturday's game! Cool, right??? So we get 4 tickets to the game. Candice and Chad had originally planned on coming but then the student tickets sold out. But now they get to come! And we gave our student tickets to some friends who are students but hadn't gotten tickets yet. They will be filming us waving at the crowd before the game and then playing it on the big screen. We are going to take Carter and Ryker on the field to wave too but then we will send them home with my mom so we can enjoy the game :)

So yeah, that's what is going on in the Reed house! Hope everything is going well for you!