Moving Day!

After much stress with loan documents, underwritting mishaps, random loan audits...   living with boxes for a couple of weeks, and off of Fast Food and paperplate (i packed up my pots and pans and plates a LONG time ago)....   finally we have arrived at moving day for the McPherson's. I have been so sad that I hadn't been able to decorate my place all Christmasy or even put my tree up!

But I can now!  Just in time for Christmas!



We got our keys last night, and honestly, as soon as my realtor left us with keys, i starting crying just at the thought of how blessed we are, and what God has done in BOTH our lives to bring us to THIS point. So we prayed over our house asking for continued blessings. It was a sweet sweet moment.  And then we ran up and down the hallway about a billion times.

pictures soon soooooon to follow.  (well, not too soon, because I won't have the internet for a few days!

The bid to end all bids...

So here we go. I've been so busy that I haven't even updated ya'll on our house hunt!!! I've tried to let as many people as I could in on it without OFFICIALLY announcing anything. (and by official I mean facebook status.)

So lets Back up the train...Tad and I were praying for the short sale would be the house for us. Or at least His will would be working in our hunt. Just let us know.

Fast-forward to a few weeks after that. Tad & I have been really wanting to purchase in a certain neighborhood (for its schools, respectability, lot sizes...etc) But it was just out of our price range. So then this house pops up in this area,( and not the fake part of the neighborhood... right in the heart of it) and its right at the price we were wanting. But because of our -*my* busy schedule, we couldn't plan a showing until the following Monday. But its a whole week... and houses have been flying off the "shelves" like same day...

Fast-forward to the next Monday. Earlier that day the seller of our short sale dropped out. THE SAME DAY we went to look at this house (Thank you Lord for hearing our prayers... you know me too well). This freed us to go to this showing with an open heart and really look at this house with intent. We could look at each room and think I COULD BE HERE... HERE. and we did.
In no particular order here's some awesomeness of the house:

Awesomeness #1 - It has a HUGE lot!! I have a giant (for Bako) pine tree growing in my lot, and three or four oaks. I can plant my very own Michelle Obama Garden!
Awesomeness #2 - It has a gas stove. Thank GOD! I am two unevenly fried eggs away from tossing my electric stove outta the window
Awesomeness #3 - Super quiet area - I no longer get to hear gosford's traffic and street racers all night long.
Awesomeness #4 - All the walls have been freshly painted so I can go in with a blank slate!!!
Awesomeness #5 - its a regular ol' sale. Not a short sale/bank owned property - So no one stealing baseboard or stoves, or crappy dead landscape.

Awesomeness #6 - It's OURS. Come December 11th when escrow closes We will own our own house. home.  God is good.

It has come to that...

I have made a desicion:

I have been soooo busy with teaching that I need to close PARTS of my shop. (Who knew - you actually have to work and grade, and lesson plan. Phew.)

So because of that I am going to have to scale back A LOT on my shop. In the coming days I'll be taking down any custom work (i.e. mongramed and personalized onesies.. probably my fav part) any other made or order work. Which means I can only leave in my account items that are ready to ship!

Tad has been bugging me in a sweet way to take care of myself- But recently I had two of my custom orders be later then what I intended, the guilt has caused me to second guess the quality of my shop. So to prevent future customers any uncomfortablness and me the extreme stress... it must be done.

The great thing - since I STARTED my store with jewelry - i can focus on that more! (plus it doesn't take as much time/steps and a hand-embroidered cuteness!). And since since i started, i haven't sold a lot of jewelry pieces. Maybe the fall is my time to SHINE! (pun intended).

Bids and Things

Taddy and I found a home we love!

And I'm not worried that we found one after only seeing 4 houses. When my family first moved into town we loved the FIRST house we saw. But then, to be diligent, we subsequently stomped through 20 or so more houses until finally realizing that the first one was perfect: pool, stockdale school lines, THE oaks, and split wing.
So I'm confident that the LORD showed Tad and I this house. It jumped out at my from my automated-email listings!

We put in our first bid to this house... and two days later the seller accepted our bid. BUUUUT its a short sale. so I'm thankful the seller responded,but we know the long drawn out process that it involves. (My sister bought a short sale house so I have a feel on what we can expect. oy!)



So knowing the bank could respond in a week or in months, we have been sitting on our savings account. I am so proud that Taddy and I have been saving our monies so well that we are able to afford our OWN down payment!!! What an accomplishment!!!! Saving every last penny!!!! This week though has kinda sucked, because usually we pull a bit out of our savings to cover our bums for those days before payday and repay ourselves when we get paid.... EXCEPT - we don't know when the bank is going to call on us and check out our account!!!! So I'm on a spending Freeze until Friday. No eating out - no quick trips to Von's - no sale perusing at Joann's....

Sometimes I even surprise myself!

Two things you should know about this story:

1. It is quite often that I notoriously leave something behind. Mostly, my phone. So, Taddy will be calling me in the afternoon to no avail because I have cleverly left my phone on the table, in the charger, stuck in the couch cushions, on the stove... You know, the usual spots.

2. Now that I travel 40 minutes to work - I have convinced Tad to let me purchase a top of the line jawbone. BLING! I use it quite often when I drive home. So if you're wondering when is a good time to get a hold of me, its usually around 5:15 as I drive down the lovely 99.

My Story:

I am gathering all my items for school today. I've got my computer packed and my water in my bag, I've even had enough time to make myself (and more importantly, to Tad, clean up after myself) a beautiful vanilla latte. Meanwhile, I have the wherewithal to remember to grab my BBerry the bathroom (why is it there? I read my emails as a brush my teeth. at 6 am.) and take it to the kitchen while i steam my milk.

Akk, I'm late! I run out the door throw my new jawbone in my ear and take off. Leaving my phone sitting on the stove. And I try to turn my jawbone on at least 10 times before conceding to the fact that it's in need a re-charge. I didn't realize I didn't have my phone with me until lunch.

good one alisa.

How Much Fabric? Card GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

How Much Fabric? Card GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Woah, I love thise giveaway site. And I am THINKING of dabbling into clothes. Mostly skirts. So this little card combo is a definite way to help me out. If you don't have Grosgrain on your google reader, there are some pretty funky cool things being dished out there!

Any other tips????? Got there and enter yourselves in! Or wait around and see all the other great giveaways!

Great places, Bad choices

If you know me. You know of my love for bacon. Or if you read this blog semi-occationally you know I love bacon. If you know me, you know the stories of how my dad would cook bacon for me on saturdays, and that beautiful smell came wafftling down the hall to my room to joyously wake me from my slumber...

So I've been hearing about the Bacon Ice Cream at Moo Creamery off Truxtun in Bakersfield.

Last night I convinced Tad to go hit up the Creamery for our first trip over there. What a great place! Everyone was soo nice and the ice cream was so fresh and tasty! We need MORE places like this in town! I love it!

I almost chickened out of trying the bacon ice cream, but Tad convinced me. It is the culmination as a bacon lover to at least give it a try. So we ordered it, but I added another scoop of pumpkin pie just in case. Its a good thing i did.

I came, I tried, and that's about it. I liked the maple ice cream base, but I could never be prepared for the chunks of bacon. Not a good choice. When we asked out bus boy if its a hit, he said, that kids LOVE it. Good, maybe I should have trying this 15 or 20 years ago.

I WILL be back at Moo Creamery - but not for the bacon ice cream! Ha!