New Homes, Summer, and Yellowstone...Oh My!!

Ok, so the last couple of weeks have been one big stressful blur! First, we got through the first hurdle of the House buying. The short sale that we put an offer on went from no movement, to put your best offer in, to you are one of three in the running, to hurray!! you are the one chosen. So now we are in the getting the bank to approve everything so we can start the Mortgage process. We are very exciting to start this chapter in our lives, We are also very scared and sad to leave our friends, family, Neighbors and Loved ones but we are excited as well. I will keep you updated on the process as we go through it. just like in the last post her is the picture again. Summer also started this last week. The kids were out of school of Friday, man its seems like its been and eternity since last Friday! here are some Pictures of the last week of school. Finally, this last weekend we were in Yellowstone. We went up and stayed at our Bishops cabin in Island Park (Beautiful area!!) we drove around on his 4 wheel mule and fished and then on Monday and Tuesday we went into Yellowstone park. we had a blast just getting away and spending some time with our children.

Happening so far...

Ok, so that last little while has been really stressful for little ol me. We started the process of purchasing a home, we have been looking and we found one out in South Jordan. This home is cute! It needs a little work, some paint and new carpet (only because I am weird that way. walking on others filth is not my idea of fun! sorry that is how I roll!). This house is just what I have been wanting and looking for, but alas it is a short sale!( only I would pick out a short sale! wait they are all short sales!) sorry little rant! Well, we decided to go for it and put an offer in anyway, and now it just a waiting game with the bigger possibility that we don't get it at all. sniff sniff. We will keep looking, but now I am just a little tainted because I like this other house too much. here is a pictures of it.

We are finally in the last month of school! We made it! with that comes the last Birthday board picture.

I really am looking forward to the next couple months, the summer is coming up and it will be nice to have some sleep in time and time with my kids. I want to get out there and do some fun things with them this summer on top of looking/waiting for a house to come along and let us move into it. next school year is going to be fun too, as I have volunteered/been asked to be the secretary for the PTA at our school for next year. I am really excited about that. Hopefully I can keep my chin up with the house thing because as of today I am really discouraged. wish me luck!

Birthday, Easter and Teacher Appreciation 2012

So moving right along through the year of Two Thousand and Twelve. We had Emily's 9th birthday (Yes, I said 9 years), I can not believe how time has flown by. This year was the year of clothes, which she dearly needed.



Then we moved right on to Easter. This year it was earlier in April, we had a Easter egg hunt down in Levan with the Bateman side on conference weekend, then on Easter itself we went to Philip and Amber's for dinner and and egg hunt.

Finally on to Teacher appreciation 2012. This year I did the door for Zachary's teacher Mrs. Harper. We Love Mrs. Harper, she has been really good to Zachary through all his Zachyness, we can't say Thank you enough to her. Oh and here is the picture for the April Birthday Board.

Ambition! or lack therof

Lately we have had this musty dirty smell in our home, and for those of you who know me that is a little unusual, so I have started a quest to clean every nook and cranny of my home and pack anything that we have not used in almost 9 years of living here and almost 11 years of marriage. In the event of actually buying a home this summer, I will be more than prepared. I started on the playroom in the basement, now onto the Laundry room that is the dirtiest place in the whole house. pictures to follow.

On to the next month!

WOW?!?!?!?! Is it already March, time just goes by so fast. Nothing much going on in the Bateman Camp at the moment, We are saving up for a down payment on our 1st Home. We hope to be buying one by the end of this summer. The Kids are enjoying school, can you believe that there are only 3 months left of this school year? I can't! time is just flying by. Emily turns 9! (Yes, I said 9) this month and I have no idea what to get her for her birthday. Paul have been at his job at MVI for 1 year now he likes it so much that it feels like he has always been there. It's a great environment, great people that he works with, and room to grow and develop himself. We are finally in a good point in our lives, not that we haven't been before, We have been very blessed. Zachary is just Zachary, we are trying to keep him out of trouble and getting his work done is school. 1st grade can be brutal, and we hope he makes it through without being totally board. We hope all is well with everyone. Here are some of the pictures of the last couple months and two more school birthday boards that I have done.

Birthday Bulletin Boards

This year I have been in charge of the Birthday Bulletin board at the kids school here are the first five boards that I have come up with.

OH there you are 2012!!!

Sorry, I have been out of touch this last couple of months. We got through Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. They were very good as Holidays go. Christmas was especially nice with it being on Sunday. We got up let the kids look in their stockings, had breakfast and got ready for church. After church we came home and opened presents and chilled the rest of the day until we went to Grandma Batemans to see Paul's Parents and siblings. It was a very nice day. on New Years we were in Levan once again with LOTS of food, friends/family and fun. all in all the Holidays were wonderful, but I am glad that it is the New Year! Let 2012 be a good if not a better year.