Fingers crossed

Well, we don't actually have any NEWS news to share, it's more like rumors... but they're really good rumors, so I want to share!

First, Whiting-Turner Contracting (aka Joe's company) got the new Williams Village dorm job in Boulder! That's a big "whew!" since they were seriously hurting for work. We were never worried that Joe would be laid off since W-T doesn't lay people off (another "whew!"), but we were wondering where he would be working next since we're in this whole process of trying to buy a house. We've been looking for homes in Thornton so that we'd be semi-close to Fort Collins, to the main office in south Denver, and to all that other junk around Denver where jobs might crop up. Now we're pumped because it's for-sure super-close to Boulder! Getting the job wouldn't mean anything to us except that Joe is named on the team, so it's 99% sure he'll be working in Boulder as soon as his dorm job here in Fort Collins wraps up. Another year and a half of security in Colorado, and THAT is "wheeeeewwwwww!"

Second, we are still in the process of procuring a residence to call our own, but it feels more like "oh my gosh can we PLEASE just find a house in our price range in a decent neighborhood that doesn't already have 14 offers on it??" The answer is finally "YES!" Actually, we've gotten that answer once before, so now we're under contract on TWO homes! Anyone want a house in Thornton? Haha! The first house has been under contract for coming up on 3 months, but it's just in the beginning stages of short sale, a completely misleading term. It's anything BUT short! (Reminds me of Fast Sunday...) The realtor said it could go quickly, but we could also possibly have 5 children by the time we closed on it, and it looks like it's leaning towards the family of 5. This NEW house, however, is ready to rumble. We put in our offer and were out-bid, sadly, so we were beginning to dejectedly look for apartments around Thornton when we heard that the winners didn't follow through on their paperwork so we, the back-up bidders, we're now WINNERS! Now everything is moving quickly (a true-to-life "short sale") and we're scheduled to have the inspection in the next 2 or 3 weeks and the closing date (should our superstitious finger-crossings work) is July 7th! To sum it up: we could have a house of our own in less than a month.

This could be our house! Or at least the outide of our house.

And this could be our crazy awesome back porch where we could have a crazy awesome house-warming party with family and friends! Just dreaming...

I'm suppressing extreme over-use of exclamation points because, like I said, it's just rumors right now -vicious rumors! It could turn out that the house contract falls through and Joe gets sent to another job site, even to a site in another state, where we live in an apartment for another year or two. That could definitely happen, and if it DOES happen I can't say I have anything to complain about - I still have the most handsome husband around (even if you other wives say otherwise) with an incredible, crazy toddler to fill our days, we're looking forward to meeting Baby Jacobs #2, and we're fortunate in 1,000 other ways nobody cares for me to list. But that certainly doesn't stop us from crossing our fingers!