the weekend

i'm happy--i had 6 comments on my last post...yea me!

we had a pretty good weekend...very productive on saturday. not at all productive yesterday. saturday we (basically my husband) cut the grass, washed my car (first time in at least 8 months--probably 10...thank God it doesn't show dirt), fixed the vinyl on our house (a storm busted a few pieces), went and looked at houses, dropped off some stuff at goodwill, and visited my dad. plus, b had to work some. yesterday, we went to church (little bit screamed through sunday school) and went to visit my stepdad and b's dad. it took all day. i love the fact that i have family and that we're close enough to visit but it is really hard getting around to everyone--especially on a sunday afternoon (b/c of church in the morning). we have 3 sets of parents (his, mine, and my other) and if you want to spend any amount of time with them, you have to have all day.

a house burned up in our park the other day...scary! my dad was a volunteer firefighter when i was little and my mom worked on the ambulance and i HATED when they had anything going on. where i'm from (very small town) if ANYthing is going on, everyone gathers around and watches. so everytime there was a fire, if we knew about it, we were watching it. scared me to death! well, i haven't seen an uncontrolled fire since i was little so it just brought back bad memories. thankfully no one was in the house. i'm not sure what happened but we saw them cleaning it out yesterday and it looked like almost everything had smoke/fire damage.

we put an offer on that house on tuesday. it was rejected. we feel like the guy was being a bit unreasonable though. he is asking $100 less than appraisal. we offered him what he's asking but that he'd pay half of closing costs ($1900). he said he's not taking less than what he's asking. i'm not ABOUT to offer him 100% b/c the house has a few things that need to be taken care of so i don't feel like it is worth 100% of what he's asking. if he had been asking a few thousand less than what it appraised for, we could negotiate a little but he's not so we can't! no big deal though...i know it just wasn't meant to be. b was MAD though! i had to remind him that there were many other houses out there! there are acutally some villas that we really like but they have an association fee of $100/month. i hate that! it is for lawn maintenance (there's no lawn) and the security system (we can get it for 17.99/mon ourselves) and small roof/exterior repairs (i doubt we'll have $100/month worth of that). i'd kinda like a yard anyway.

an old high school teacher of ours was in an accident this past week. she's ok but she pulled out in front of a motorcycle and killed the 2 people riding it (husband and wife). word is she was friends with them (they went to school together) and when people got to the scene she was kneeling in the road holding one of them crying and saying she was sorry. and now (supposedly but i don't doubt it) she is having to be heavily sedated. she hasn't had an easy life. her first husband was a logger and his truck broke down so he was on the side of the road and someone hit him and killed him. pray for peace for her. i wish i could just make it better b/c she really is the sweetest person!

not too much little bit news today. she did sleep through the night on saturday which was great!! she woke up at some point last night but i just let her fuss herself back to sleep. either she didn't fuss long or i was just really sleepy b/c i don't remember staying awake for very long. i dreamed about head on (have you seen the commercial--"head on, apply directly to your forehead. head on, apply directly to your forehead. head on, apply directly to your forehead." it isn't my favorite). just a side note there.