Busy Days

I really am trying to keep up with my blog.  And the next time I see someone that can give me a crash course on backgrounds and whatnot I am going to sit on them and make them teach me!  Between traveling, working and taking classes online I am in need of a relaxing vacation.  I would even be willing to take just a weekend away with Justin.....

Marshall and I flew to see my family in Louisiana on February 16th.  Besides my Mom and brother no one else in my family had met Marshall yet so everyone was super excited we were coming to visit.  Marshall did great on the plane ride, I was really nervous about flying with him alone but he napped on and off and the people sitting behind us asked if I would trade him for their two older kids.  So I'm going to take that as a sign that he was pretty well behaved.  It was great to see my family and get pictures of Marshall with his Great Grandpa!  We are planning on going down again for Thanksgiving and Justin will come too.


We had been casually looking at houses for about the past month.  We have been working with a lender to try and qualify for a zero down and no PMI insurance loan.  Our credit scores just need to go up a couple of points to qualify but we were having to wait until March 1st to get a pre-approval letter.  So while we have been waiting we have been working with our Realtor to get an idea of prices and view some houses.  We patiently waited and now we have been rewarded.  Yesterday our lender called and we have a pre-approval!  We are going this evening to look at a new listing and look again at a house we really liked the first time we looked at it.  Unfortunately most of the houses up here are bank owned these days so the process will most likely be a slow one.  We will most likely put an offer in on one of the two this week!  We are so excited at the prospect of being homeowners and having a place of our own to raise Marshall.