No, I'm not dead- YET!

Just wanted to write something up on here- it is strange, I feel like I don't have anything much to write, but at the same time we are going through some major life changes! Last week we went and met with a financial guy who told us about what we could expect to afford for a home. Then someone tells us about this new thing that the State is offering to people ($6000) for first time home buyers who buy a NEW home (only for the first 1600 people); so we decided to start looking at new homes...well, then we started looking at used homes too and basically our lives have been crazy going around looking at houses and I haven't slept well in over a week! To make a really long story short- we have found some that we love, but they might be out of our price range, so we are going to put together an offer and see what happens. Basically, they aren't new (there goes the $6000), but they are only slightly used (bank foreclosures) and are AWESOME- frankly, I will be shocked if one of our offers are accepted because these seem too good to be true (they probably are). The homes are up in northern Lehi- so the commute time for Shawn will be about the same. If we don't get them, though, we intend to keep looking. We decided that the brand new home thing was fun, but when you consider the cost of putting in a yard and fence, a slightly used one is a better deal and there are a lot of desperate people out there selling their homes and bank repos, etc....so there is my update for you! Hope you are all doing well! I will let you know when we have things finalized- and put up a ton of photos (I don't dare even take a picture now because if we don't get it, whenever we see the photos we will be depressed!)