Moving on

The house is officially not ours....at least not now. We signed the release form today so now someone else can make an offer if they dare. So that is enough about 1517 W. Noble for now.

We also had our eyes on a couple other smaller houses that we thought would make great rental properties once we upgrade in a few years, but someone beat us to them. We are now just hanging out where we are and keeping an eye out to see if anything comes available that we just can't live without, otherwise we will wait until our lease is up in June and buy something then.

With all of that settled we are now moving on to personal improvements. I am getting braces and Lindsay will be getting laser eye corrective surgery or whatever they call it these days. I have already started on consultations for braces because I think I have to be done with them before I can go to pilot training. The ortho said it should take right about two years depending on how well I obey his instructions. Since I am getting them so late in life I will need to have oral surgery. My bottom jaw is significantly larger than my top so then my top jaw needs to be cut and then expanded so that it fits with my bottom jaw. I am meeting with the surgeon next Monday. I am not excited about the $7k-$10k it will all costs, but am glad to finally be getting it done.

I am still going through the semester kicking and screaming. My motivation drops with each and every assignment. So far I have yet to slack off, but the temptation is continually growing.

Lindsay came down with some sickness yesterday so was home all day relaxing. I think it helped quite a bit. We will see how bushy her tail is in the morning though. The base is having an exercise Thursday through Sunday so we will be up there doing....stuff. Heck that's two more days I don't have to be at Wal-Mart, but I also have to miss some class for it.

I think Porsche needs a new starter. That's no good. She picked a good week to crap out on me though. It is in the 70's all week so the riding has been great. She just got 4 brand new tires and the truck needs two new ones asap. I've got two new tires in the garage for the Buell as well. I guess you can't have too much good rubber laying around though.

This has been kind of a stressful week with projects due, sickness, car trouble and base exercises, but it is almost over so that is a great relief. I am actually ready for Monday already, that just doesn't sound right.

Oh yeah we just had Halloween. We went to my friends house in Moore who had a party. Lindsay wore her mom's flapper costume she made 20 years ago (very impressive and it looks great) and I dressed up as the Greek god Jasonious. Lindsay can tell you where that idea came from sometime later. We had fun and made it home safely so it was a good night. Lindsay posted the rest of the pics on her facebook.

Okay well I have rambled enough for tonight. I went to bed at 8:40 and realized that is way to early so I got up and this is what I found to do. My eyes feel pretty heavy now though so hopefully I can lay down and zonk out. Goodnight.

Long month...

Ok so it has been over a month now since we updated and it seems like a lot has happened since then, yet we are still in the same place we were since we last talked. Anyway so the down and dirty is that we decided it is time to buy a house. We fell in love with a huge house in Guthrie which is what the slide show is of. After over a week of negotiating we settled on a price and then went to work on getting it inspected. It needs a LOT of work, which would take several years and several thousand $$$$ to complete. Well it now looks like the bank won't loan on the house unless we fix it up first?!?! We don't exactly have the $50k-$80k it would take so unless God really wants us to have this house right now it looks like we might just hope for sometime in the future. The appraiser didn't even finish the appraisal and said it is not worth the purchase price so there is not way we would get the loan anyway. This last month has been a good experience with getting our feet wet in real estate. We are now looking at getting two small houses. One to live in and one to rent. Then we can slowly upgrade over the years as our income increases and continue to acquire real estate as we go. We would still like to buy a house before Nov. 31 so we can get the tax rebate. We are going to look at a few houses in Guthrie on Monday.

We are keeping the door open for the first house we want just in case God blesses us with some financial miracle. We have gone back and forth on this house that I don't even know what I want anymore. This is a good thing for me, I think, because I know my emotions and desires shouldn't get in the way of what God is trying to do so hopefully I will be more receptive to what God is trying to tell us. Either way I it looks we are about to be in the middle of a change of seasons in our lives. We will be buying a house(s), changing jobs, moving cities, contemplating children, finishing school and beginning civilian pilot training. The next 3 months should be very revealing of what the next 5 years will produce in our lives.

So essentially nothing physical has changed in the last month but there have been many hours of thinking about what is about to change. We will update again when something changes....or after many more hours of thinking about it.

We appreciate all of your prayers and welcome any advice you may have for what we are experienceing. See you later.