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Today was a super busy day but we had a great time bargain shopping at Lowe's.   They were having a huge Labor Day sale with 20% off of the appliances we were wanting to get for our house.   I started doing some math and discovered that with the 20% off and then our 10% off new movers coupon topped with the manufactures rebates we would be saving over $700 off of what our builders direct sales guy could do.  (And we thought his prices were amazing a few months ago!)  Oh...and we got a nicer range and microwave than we had selected through the builder's guy.  I am thrilled!  I know it seems crazy to buy the appliances before we have the house built (or even started!) but Lowe's will store them for you on site and you just call them when you want them delivered.  I have always known that Labor Day and Memorial day were some of the best times to buy appliances but our deals today just blew me away.  It took some creativity and a lot of research to get it all figured out for the maximum discount for the best appliances but it worked out great!  I saved close to $1,500 between 4 appliances and managed to get all 4 appliances (the nice ones at that!) for just a little more than what our refrigerator would have cost us if we had bought it full price.  Now that is some bargain shopping!  I am loving me some Lowe's right now!

After Lowe's we headed to Home Depot just to look around and then we headed to Wal-Mart for some dreaded grocery shopping.  I hate Wal-Mart on the weekends!

Once home we enjoyed some time outside.  Tyler is suddenly into playing football after going to the game on Friday.  It is cute to watch and I think Jacob is really excited.  Before now Tyler has shown no interest in playing sports.  It is nice that they can all get out there and play together now because before he never wanted to join in on the fun.

Hope you are all having a wonderful Labor Day weekend.

I am off to take some NyQuil and head to bed.  I feel so terrible and just want to sleep!

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Today we met with our builder and decided on our lot.  We are going with lot 19 and I think it is going to be perfect.  With the lot choice we had to make a few adjustments to our house plans so now we have a lot but our plans are being adjusted for the lot and the building restrictions.  Hopefully the changes won't take too long to get back.

It feels great to at least see the finish line (or should I say starting line...LOL) in sight.

After our meeting Jacob and the kids headed out to the pool while I cooked supper.

As you can see they had a blast!

They are loving being able to go swimming in their own pool!

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Do I even dare to post this?

Yep...This is the preliminary survey of our lot.  Well...What was to be our lot.  Lot 20 was our original choice.  It was what we wanted from the moment we moved to this town.  We have been waiting almost 5 months for this lot but once we got the survey it wasn't all we hoped it would be.  It is a strange shape, which we knew it would be, but we didn't plan how bad it would be once you added in the wildlife easement (front dotted line that we can't build over) and then the 2 culverts that will go through the lot (drawn in with pencil)  You can see how we tried to fit our house on there but it just doesn't leave a lot of room for other things without them being in really low areas and we don't want that.  It is also weird how it goes over the road.  Not sure what they were thinking there.  So after driving out there again tonight in the rain we have decided that lot 19 will work.  We didn't really want to have someone building right across from us but at least we can position our house better on the lot.  When we drove out there and turned down the road there was a HUGE double rainbow going right over the road and ending at lot 19.  I took that as a sign.  Jacob and our builder will walk the lot on Thursday and hopefully we will be able to move quickly from there.

Tyler is sick again.  Running a fever and just overall feeling pretty bad.  Not sure what is going on with him.

Jackson finished up his last day of tutoring today until school starts.  He is so happy to have some time off to enjoy summer.

Jaci enjoyed having Tyler home from camp today.  Although he was sick she enjoyed having someone here with her.  They are cute together as long as it is just the 2 of them.

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Today I am thankful for another day of sunny weather.  The kids were able to get outside and it was nice.

Today I heard from our builder that he can start building on our lot before we close as long as we are under contract with the developer.  Apparently it is pretty common for builders to do this.  It was at least a bright spot in my day.  Hopefully once the developer gets the survey back we can go under contract and start building.  Building this home has been one of the most stressful things I have done.  It doesn't help that my husband is having a really hard time making a decision regarding the house and lot.  It is driving me crazy!

I couldn't get in with the doctor today.  He is booked until Wednesday.  I have an appointment on Wednesday but Tyler has his appointment tomorrow in Abilene and I am going to see if there is a clinic there that can see me.  I am just ready to feel better.

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The sun did not shine.

It was too wet to play.

So we sat in the house

All that cold (hot), cold (hot), wet day.

Too wet to go out

And too cold (hot) to play ball.

So we sat in the house.

We did nothing at all.

Actually...we read a lot today and played games but we are going stir crazy in this little house.

Especially Jaci and I!  The boys are at least going to camp and Jacob is at least getting out to go to work.

Our living situation is getting REALLY old!

I need prayers for patience on buying this lot.  Jacob is set on it but won't push the seller to move on it and take care of business.  I feel like we are just waiting and waiting.  We have been waiting on this for 3 months and it looks like it will at least be the end of the month before we are able to close on it.  That means we likely won't be in our new house before Christmas.  I'm sick at the thought of spending Christmas in this house.  Last year our Christmas was ruined by us putting our house on the market and moving and this Christmas is looking bad as well.  I know some might think it is just Christmas but I LOVE the holidays and decorating and everything that goes with them.  There is no way we could decorate this house and all of our stuff is in storage and would be really hard to get to even if I could. 

I'm just in a mood tonight. 

I am so tired of this.

I just feel like there is no end in sight.

To top it all off all of my friends in Lockhart are playing BUNCO tonight and I miss those ladies so much.

I promise I will be more positive tomorrow.

Tonight I just had to get this off my chest.