I haven't updated our blog in a while because I wanted to wait until we had some good news to share with everyone. For those of you who are on facebook you already know our good news. I tend to be on there a lot.........too much really! LOL
I will start with my own personal good news. I finished my first 7 weeks of school. We have four 7 week courses that we have to pass. The first one was called "core" and it involved study skills, computer skills, anatomy/terminology, and math. Well, I was aiming for the Honor Roll but I'm proud to report I out did myself and I made the Director's List (Dean's List)!!! As our instructor was calling out the names of people on the Honor Roll I was eagerly awaiting my name to be called and when it wasn't and others whom I know didn't do as well as I did name's were being called I was crushed and devastated! Then when he read the Director's List and my name was the first one he called I literally almost fell out of my chair I was so shocked and excited!!! I couldn't believe it!!
I have since moved on to the Dental Assisting courses. Our first course is in Xrays and let me tell you, it isn't easy at all! My Xray skills aren't the greatest but I'm working on them. I have about 3 more weeks of Xray and then we move on to the Administration part of it, I'm looking forward to that part because I know I will be great at it. My instructor is a very funny and interesting woman who makes learning fun. She's the new agey type who only likes to lecture or what have you for so long then encourages us to take a break.
After many months of complete FRUSTRATION and exhaustion we FINALLY have a house!!! We looked at soooooo many houses over the past 3 to 4 months, and put offers on 3 of them only to be out bid. It was so annoying, overwhelming, and crazy!!! I had literally almost given up, I was ready to just stop looking for houses. Dwayne convinced me to go look at a few more, so he took off of work early one day. I had wanted to look at one in particular that was close to Calvin's school, as we went to exit our neighborhood Dwayne went left instead of right like I thought he should. I asked him where we were going and he said we were only looking at one house that day. I grew quite irritated with him and he asked if I had remembered the Toll Brother's house we looked at that I loved, but we weren't sure what the status was on it. I said I remembered and he looked over at me and said "Well, I put an offer on it without telling you and they accepted it. It's ours." I about crapped my pants!!! For once his sneakiness and secrecy finally paid off!!
As you can see from the slide show above it's quite a big house! It's in the shape of an O because there's an atrium with a fireplace in the middle of it!!! There's french doors that open up to the atrium from the den, dinning room and family room! It has a large kitchen with lots of space, including a butler's hall! Downstairs there's a guest room with a full bathroom, as well as a half bath down the hall. Upstairs is the master bedroom and the boys' rooms and a giant playroom. The backyard is a very nice size........big enough for a pool one day! It has a back patio and it backs up to a quiet street. In all it's a 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath, with a loft and a 3 car tandem garage. It's in a nice quiet gated community between where we used to live and where we live now. Calvin will have to switch schools and I'm not very happy about that because the school he's in now is great, but he's a bright kid who will do well any where he goes.
I have to admit, I will be a bit sad to leave this neighborhood. We love living so close to our friend's Sandi and Eddie. The boys have made a few friends here and have a lot of open space to play baseball. Our new neighborhood is so quiet, you don't realize how much noise donkey's, peacocks, parrots and weddings make until you're away from them! (We currently live across from a bird sanctuary and outdoor party area.)It will be so nice to finally put down some permanent roots for our boys. I wish those roots were in Arizona but oh well. It's a beautiful house and I'm looking forward to making it our home. I'm most looking forward knowing for sure we won't have to move again for a LONG time!!!
The boys are doing fine. Calvin is still playing baseball and getting better at it every day. Zach is running around messing up the house all the time so I just stopped cleaning it...just kidding... he really is a tornado though.
So, I believe that's it for now! I'm not sure when I'll be able to update this again. we're suppose to close on the house November 13 so I'm going to be very busy with packing and purging for the next few weeks.....not to mention school!! I hope all is well for everyone! We love you all!
