Finally Pictures!

All the fun of Cattle Congress!

Happy happy Humpy day!!!

Oh happy day, o happy day, ooo HAPPY day! OK so we found a house in Cedar Falls tonight!
http://www.cedarvalley-homes.com/Default.aspx?tabid=41&bc=2,3&h=1&lid=jXF%2fLCZ0Y2Y%3d&lndx=0&vw=dtl&rppg=10&digest=jq7nBSVFll6lKuFB7WbuSA
It's a fixer upper but you never know until you look at how bad it is! I am very excited! After that we get to go have dinner at Grandmas with Sharon, Wayne, and Linda. We haven't seen them in such a long time. It will be nice to get caught up! OK I will fill you all in about the house in the morning! :)

This Could Be The One!!!! WOW!!!

http://www.cedarvalley-homes.com/Default.aspx?tabid=40&bc=1,2&vw=dtl&qs=sp&h=1&lid=WksgSmG7qDU%3d&lndx=7&rppg=10&digest=SA/AOhVW0RdNlpyLiVskcA

We went and looked at this cute house last night! It has a beautiful deck and a big kitchen with great possibilities! I am so excited!

So we looked at 5 houses last night. The first one we looked at was this one! It was just right! I loved it. TOOOONNNNSSSS of closet space! And i love the LAUNDRY SHOOT! We were going to put one in where we lived anyway! Hooray! It has big kitchen and french doors that open on to the deck. It's just so cute! Mike want's us to wait a little longer and see what else we can come up with. I did find a house today in Parkersburg that looks pretty nice but all of the houses look pretty nice in the pictures then i wanna run away and hide when i see them!
One house we looked at i labeled "interesting and laughable" . haha! I will leave it at that!

And the Hunt Continues...

Happy Monday! Wow September is just flying by! I love this weather though, this week it's back in the high 70's low 80's here!

We had a great weekend! Friday was pretty boring for us, we went out to dinner at HuHot, yummy yummy! My favorite! I ate so much! After dinner I went and got my ring cleaned and inspected! Yay I remembered to do it on time this time! Yay! Then we headed over to the store grabbed a few QUICK things and headed home. When we got there we remembered that we forgot the TP! So guess who got to go back to the store?? Me of course, with a list of other items i thought of in my mind which i remembered none of and bought other things not on my head list! But luckily those things could wait so i didn't have to go back to the store. For the rest of the night we just hung around the house and relaxed! It was really nice!

Saturday we had plans! Cattle Congress!! I LOVE CATTLE CONGRESS!! It's my favorite thing to do in Waterloo/Cedar Falls. And this year there was a Demolition Derby and a Rodeo that we wanted to see! My Mom, Laura, Stephenie, Nick, Michael (Steph's lil brother) and Jordan (Michael's friend). It was quite a troop but really fun! The demo derby was really cool! We sat bye a man who's son was racing so we had someone to route for! He also told me he would help me build a car for next year if i wanted to run! Which of course I did and haha he was drunk so we will see if he remembers me! After the derby we had some time to hang out in the cow barn! My favorite place to be! I got to pet lots and lots of little baby cows! When we walked through the Hall of Breeds it was really neat because Laura is now going to school to be a vet assistant and so she could answer all my questions! It was great! Eww and i did pet a sheep, not my favorite feeling in the world, blarg! After we saw the animals we walked through Estel Hall and won free pencils and magnets, whoo hoo! Then it was time to eat! I love love love fair food! But i made a mistake, i tried something new...both Stephenie and I agreed do NOT eat the Steak, onion and pepper sandwich with waaaaaaaay to much BBQ sauce on it! Go for a corn dog! But i did manage to get an awesome lemonade and eat some of my mama's fresh cut fries! Yummy, I'm makin myself hungry! After dinner Mike, Stephenie, Nick, and I all wandered around the midway just for the memories I think, none of us would dare to ride any of those greasy rides anymore, SCARY! Then it was time for the Rodeo! Yeee-Haaaw! Mom and Laura totally ditched us! So we went and stayed for about an hour, and headed home! I couldn't believe how tired we were! What a great Cattle Congress! We went back to our house after that and hung around, just relaxing! It was great!

Sunday

I really enjoy Sundays but i think they are my least favorite day of the week. I want to sleep in but i have to be careful on how long i sleep because i generally have to be awake about 12 hours before i can fall asleep again. Mike on the other hand, can sleep all day, get up for dinner and go right back to bed and still be tired when he wakes up Monday morning! I don't get it! Well we had a "mini" cleaning fest that afternoon and we all felt much better!!

Tonight Mike and I are going on a big house hunt! We looking at like 4-6 houses tonight! I am very excited! I will let you all know how it goes tomorrow! Maybe I will actually get some pics uploaded, and you never know maybe our new house will be on there! Wish us happy hunting and have a great Monday!

"Help me Tom Cruise!"

Hooray for Thursdays because that just means it's that much closer to Friday! Which means...anybody? Anybody? ... It's the weekend! YAY!! Something to look forward to! And guess which weekend it is? Anybody? Anybody? ... Cattle Congress Weekend!! That means COWS! Oh yes, a whole barn full for me to see, smell, taste, OK not taste but come on! Who could resist going to see cows? Not me that's for sure! I suppose if I bought a hamburger at the fair I could taste the cows! What an idea, I could eat it while walking through the barn! But would that be considered cruel? Hum...

Anyway, our realtor is out of town for the rest of the weekend so we wont be viewing any more houses this week but I did find like 7 that I want to see so that's reallllly cool! This really is a fun process, until we have to like make and offer and hope to God they accept it or counter offer and hope again to God that they accept it. In the word of Ricky Bobby (Taledega Nights) "Dear Precious Baby Jesus, all Wrapped is Swaddling Clothes, please Tiny Baby Jesus..." "Help me Tom Cruise! Help me Jewish God" Or in the very memorable words of his best friend Cal, "Don't let the invisible fire hurt my friend!"

Wishing it was Wednesfriday!

Ahh! It's only Tuesday! I can't stand Tuesdays and Wednesdays! I can deal with Mondays, but not Tuesdays and Wednesdays! On Tuesdays I always think it's Wednesdays and Wednesdays are always so slloooooww! So here I am sitting at work on a boring Tuesday looking forward to Wednesday so it can at least feel like the day that it is! OH MY! Sitting here doing nothing on a Tuesday wishing it was a different week day when I could be wishing for a FRIDAY! I am now sitting here on a Tuesday, that feels like a Wednesday, wishing it was Friday!

Summer Really Is Over

Birrrrrrrrr 55 degrees this morning! NO!!!

I feel like it went from 100-50 overnight! It's amazing how fast the weather can change on us! And guess what?? MORE RAIN! Makes for a mopey Monday.

So update of the house search,

NO SUCH LUCK!

We went to Parkersburg Friday right after work and went to the first house. The house was wonderful, big living room and 2 nice bedrooms on the 1st floor and a pretty bathroom a converted attic into a master bedroom just great, nice kitchen, then we headed to the basement. I COULDN'T EVEN STAND UP STRAIGHT! It was ridiculous, oh and lets not even talk about the garage.

Second house looked good in the picture big 3 bedroom 2 bathroom with a full acre of land and outbuildings. The as failed to mention the horrible smell the falling apart window and door frames, vacant haunted house on property, and most of the acre was a freakin' pond! Man, it just proves that looks can be deceiving. So then I had found a house in Cedar Falls we wanted to look at so we thought, until we drove by it and it was horrible! I am feeling very discouraged today. I know that someday we will find a house with 3 bedrooms and a basement tall enough for Mikey to stand up in but it just seems like it will never happen.

Anyway we had a really good weekend! After we looked at houses on Friday we went out to dinner at Perkins. Then we went home and Stephenie invited us over to her parents house to have a fire. That was nice but Mike had to work on Saturday so we had to call it a night early. Saturday Mike worked for about 4 hours in the morning so he got home just as I was waking up! I had a lot to do Saturday and Mike sent me to the store so he could make so amazing biscuits and gravy, the best I have ever had! They were awesome! After that Stephenie and I headed to Walmart to get Corina's 1st birthday present! We had fun playing with all the toys in the kid section! haha! Mike was taking a nap so I headed back home to get the gift wrapped and my husband outta bed! The party was so much fun! We went to Chuckie Cheese, the happiest place in Cedar Falls. NOT! Oh my! I don't know if I want to have children! Haha! We had a lot of fun watching Corina have her 1st birthday cake which she ate very delicately until she really got a taste of it then she went balls to the wall! It was great! After dinner and games we went back to Adam and Cassy's for the gift opening that was a lot of fun except she didn't wanna open anything she just wanted to play with EVERYTHING! After everything was said and done and the birthday girl was so tired she couldn't keep her eyes open we finally left. But out night wasn't over yet we were going to go to our friends Chris and Mandy's new apartment but we partied with the birthday girl a little to late but my parents called with an invitation to a Bone fire! Who can resist another fire! Not me that's for sure! We had a nice time, Laura was there along with some of the Vaughn clan! It was fun! We stayed way to late and were very tired the when we got home!

Sunday! What a fun day! usually I don't move outta my chair except to eat or perhaps bathe on Sundays but this was special. My mama and sister took me shopping with them to Lane Bryant! We had some real women's dollars to spend and oh boy did we spend them! It was so much fun! We shopped and tried on so many clothes! It was just nice to have girl time to! We got home about 7, just in time to cook dinner for my Mikey and watch the opening act on the VMA's, Britney Spears, if you watched this you know it was ridiculous! So I had a very rounded out Sunday!

The house hunt continues, I will keep everyone posted!

Another housing update!

Happy Friday All! What a beautiful day in the neighborhood, our almost old neighborhood!!! Ok well I am getting to excited because we are still looking at houses. Today we are going to look at 2 houses in Parkersburg. I am very excited because one of them as like and acre of land, and the other has a really nice yard and wood floors! O O O I is very very cited! Have a great weekend everyone!

The hunt continues...

Well last night (Tuesday) we went and looked at another house. It was...OK. I wish we could take some things from this house in Dunkerton and mix them with some things in Stout. The bathroom in Dunkerton is much better but the basement was gross. I don't like scary basements! So this house was only a 2 bedroom but it had a newly remodeled kitchen! It was beautiful! We decided we liked the living room a lot to! But the bedrooms were kinda small. It just wasn't the house for us and the kicker (we didn't know this when we went to look) it was on a flood plane so that's defiantly a no go! I DON'T WANT WATER IN THE BASEMENT! Well I will keep you updated! :)

What a boring weekend :p !

Happy Tuesday! That's right! It's not Monday! Yay! I love long weekends because that means another short week! We had a pretty tame weekend for the Lofstuens! Friday night we went out to dinner with Derek and Jen, it had been a really long time since we had seen them so it was really nice to get together! After dinner we went and drove by a house we were looking into buying in Stout, IA pop. 218! Haha! No gas station or grocery store! Its definitely a quiet town! After that we headed home and Mike was so exhausted from the week he went to bed at like 7! So Stephenie and her sister Rachelle had fun hanging out just us girls! I feel asleep in the chair in our living room at about 11 and woke up and crawled to bed about 3! Needless to say I had a stiff neck the next day. We got up and got going about 9:30 but couldn't find anything entertaining to do so we really just kinda sat around the house trying to find something to do for hours! It was very relaxing! Haha! Finally Stephenie and I decided to go shopping for some essentials and started rounding up some friends to come over Sat. night. We talked to Lisa and Carrie (Stephenie's little sister) at Hy-Vee and they were coming over but Carrie canceled at the last min. she other important things to do, which was completely ok because Michael and Rachelle came over! We had a house full of people! We had a lot of fun! Michael and Rachelle stayed over so we all got left over pizza for breakfast! Yum! Sunday turned into another boring day, but not as lazy. We cleaned...sorta! Did alot of picking up and sweeping! It was needed! then Mikey and Michael went paint balling while Stephenie and I took back cans and watched a movie! When the boys got back they were starving so I made the best spaghetti I think I have ever made! It was really good! Makes me hungry for spaghetti! We had a really quiet night. Didn't really do much but watch movies! I love watching movies! Monday Mike and I woke up to Stephenie making Biscuits and Gravy! Homemade! YUM! They were great. After that we went and actually looked at the house we drove by on Friday. It was almost perfect! But God had to make Mikey just about 1 inch to tall for the basement! And the bathroom was so small my badonkeydonk didn't really fit! But it was a jump start! After that we headed home so I could make some mashed potatoes for dinner at Stephenie's parents house! We had a BBQ Smoked turkey! It was awesome! And all sorts of other food! I really enjoyed it! After dinner the girls all went for a walk with Hayden their dog. It was nice! Other than the fact that my arch cramped up, OUCH! After our walk Mike and I headed back home for and nice relaxing evening...yeah right! We decided it was time to organize our stuff! Yeah we worked on it for a little while it will help us if we are able to get a house and move! I will keep you updated and when we find the one you are all invited to our house warming party, and yes, bring gifts! hehe!