Hi all you happy people!!!

OK, so I've been neglectful. Sorry I haven't been keeping ya'll up to date on what's up!

Hal's job is fine! He seems to really like it. He's learning all sorts of fun stuff (heat exchangers and heat exchange sales). The first couple weeks were kind of annoying -- there was some conference for all Tranter's sales reps (Hal is not one) from all over the world that Hal had to go to our first week here. It was endless power point presentations, Dr. Pepper, and cookies long. Then the next week he got a new computer, which was malfunctioning. That made it hard to do his work. That got fixed though, so work is fine now! He comes home in a good mood and says he enjoys it!

House hunting is fine! We have found two that we like:

This one is cute! It's got 2 bedrooms (one of which is painted purple and yellow), 1 bathroom, a kind of funny layout (it looks like there used to be a porch on the front and back that they've enclosed and made a part of the house), it's on a corner lot with about 10 feet between the street and the fence on the side (on the left), there's a huge dying tree in the backyard that might have to be removed, and is listed with 1282 sq feet. We measured it (roughly) at 1085... there is not 200 sq ft of closets that we missed! There's maybe 60... where's the other 150 ft? And there's people living there.

This one is also cute! It's got 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, big closet spaces, an adorable tree stump in the front, an attached garage, it slopes from the house to the back fence (not a good thing), will have to have new heat/AC installed sometime soon, and is listed at 1090 sq feet. We measured it (roughly, again) at 920. However, there are probably 100 (+) sq ft of closets. Oh, and it's on the outskirts of town, and like 5 minutes from Hal's work. This one is vacant.

The houses seem to be about even, we may like the second one a tad bit better. So, we're planning on making an offer on the second one. If it's not accepted, we'll offer on the other one.

Hopefully I'll be "in contract" soon! And in a house soon after that!

SMILE!!!!