Grandpa Isenhower

Grandpa Isenhower has been in tough shape for a while. When we went home to Minnesota a few weekends ago he was in the hospital in the ICU, about a 1.5 weeks ago he was released to a recovery home and on Wednesday he was happy to finally be at home.  Last night he apparently passed out and they have not been able to completely revive him.  He is currently on life support but he will be taken off of it shortly.  He is a strong and resilient man.  I pray for peace for the entire Isenhower Family. 

Offer Accepted

Insert dancing around, jumping up and down and squealing like a little girl here. 

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Ok now that that is done.  I am going to to a drive by tonight and take some more pictures of the outside.  We have a home inspection scheduled for Wednesday the 18th.  At which time we can go back in the home and take pictures of the inside.  This is all happening so Fast!!!

We put in the Offer

Mike and I just signed the papers. I wrote out the check for earnest money.  We gave the sellers 24 hours to let us know...  Crossing our fingers and toes. 

General Property Description
Book Section Residential Country Property: No
Type Residential: Single Family
Above Grade: SqFt 1,554
Below Grade: SqFt 884
Year Built: 1910
Style: 2 Story
Lot Size: 50 x 140
Total Bedrooms: 4
Total Bathrooms: 3
Total Full Baths: 2
Total 3/4 Baths: 1
Garage Type: None
Air Conditioning: Central Air
Heating System: Forced Air\Natural Gas

Details
Water: City
Sewer: City
Electric Service: MDU
Basement: Finished; Full
Exterior: Steel
Possession: Upon Closing
Property Included: Washer/Dryer; Stove; Refrigerator; Microwave; Freezer; Dishwasher; Other: Shed

Praying the that if this is truly the right house for us God will let it go through.

Rolleblading + Dog =

Sunday Cora and I attempted this.  She did really well, except for one time.  I feel so bad.  We had just started, less than 5 minutes and she was running along side me.  She went from running full force to stopped in 0.02 seconds.  Me, holding her leash on Rollerblades, that do not currently have a brake on them, did not stop so fast.  My mind did not think to let go of the leash, so i swung around and landed on my left side. Butt, and elbow mostly.  Thankfully I was wearing my Wrist guards and helmet other wise I know I would have been much worse.  Cora had stopped to go to the bathroom (#2) and I was trying to pull her along, poor puppy, I felt so bad, but lesson learned "Do not go to fast until you know Cora has done her business."   After that we did not go quiet as fast and Cora did great.  She  never really pulled to bad except when I slowed down to prepare for a hill.  I think we will try it again down the road... maybe when I have a brake.



1910 Home

In other news We went and looked at another house on Tuesday evening!!! I LOVE IT!!  Mike was not so sure at first because it is an older home, built in 1910.  And it does not have a garage.  It has some quirks to it but is totally livable the way it is.  It has 4 bedrooms, 2.75 bath, and huge living room and dining room.  3 bedrooms and one bath are on the 2nd story which is awesome!  Our Realtor is pulling some numbers for us and if all goes as planned we will make an offer today!!  HOLY COW!!  

First Day of House Hunting

We had our first real house hunting day today.  It was fun but we did not find the home for us.  We saw 2 homes listed by real estate agents and 2 homes listed by a for sale by owner.

House 1.
- over priced
- nice bright basement
- big yard
- 4 bedroom/2.75 bath
- weird garage, only 1.5 cars
- obvious water damage in one bathroom
- green carpet in the master bedroom
- house smelled a little Smokey

House 2. 
- well with in our budget
- cute style, older home but completely updated upstairs
- 3 bedroom/ 1.75 bath
- big yard
- one garage
- scary, very scary basement
- very small rooms

House 3. - by owner
- 3 bedroom/ 2 bath
- updated bathrooms
- cute character
- 2 yards
- 2ish car garage, but not sure if we can 2 cars in there
- small kitchen

House 4. - by owner
- 2 bedroom/ 1.5 bath
- Huge 2 car garage plus a shed
- large front porch
- nice size kitchen
- needs some updates
- basement scary but not as bad as House 2

Over all we liked 3 and 4 the best... but we did not love them.  They were in our price range but they were both over priced for there location, according to our real estate agent.  We... or should I say I am a little disappointed we did not find "the one" today since we viewed most of the homes that are currently listed in our price range... we are going to go talk to a builder some time this week and see what we can get for our money building.

On ward...In other news I have found a new website/blog I LOVE. http://ana-white.com/  And have found some things I want to build for our new home.  
A bed:  http://ana-white.com/2009/10/farmhouse-bed-save-158100_7467.html
A Table: http://ana-white.com/2009/12/plans-farmhouse-table-knock-off-of.html
And maybe a bench to go with the Table: http://ana-white.com/2011/01/farmhouse-bench.html
Dad may need to help me with some of it...

PRE-APPROVED

We are Pre-approved for a home mortgage!!  We went in this morning at 10:00 and walked out at 10:30 with our pre-approval letter.  Tomorrow we have an appointment with a real estate agent to look at a few homes.  I am excited to really start the housing search!! Wish us luck!! 

Images from the Storm

Saturday morning Mike and I woke up pretty fast.  Water was coming in to our room from every angle.  We jumped out of bed grabbed things off the floor and threw them on the bed.  I got a bag out and threw in a couple changes of close, the dog, and night stand dad had made me.  We brought it all up stairs and hunkered up for the day.  As the water rose in the basement.  Thank the Lord for a pantry full of food, a GAS range and cards.  It made it up to EIGHT INCHES of water in the basement but never got to cold i nthe house thanks the the 4 burners running on the stove.  Thank the Lord that our bed in the basement did not get wet.  The only real damage was some clothes in the bottom drawers got wet.   A few of Grandmas things got really wet and had to be tossed but we all survived.  

During the storm

Out the front window as the storm was settling a bit

After the storm huge drifts

Pretty

Taking Cora on a walk... need to move after being cooped up 

Icicles 

Cora enjoying the snow

Drifts in the driveway

Beautiful Sunset Saturday night

The damage assessment on Sunday

Drawer in our Room....ugh

Hanging the clothes out to dry on Sunday

SAD... my scrap booked  Calendar fell sometime during the storm.... I am trying to Salvage it.

We are alive and so happy that things were not worse.  Praise the Lord from Uncle Todd who borrowed a generator from work on Sunday to pump out the water from the basement.  We are definitely counting our blessings.