We're in!

I am currently at work, on a Sunday no less! Before you become too impressed....it took me exactly 10 minutes door to door, and I only came to pick up some papers and check my e-mail and pay a bill, since we don't have internet yet at our NEW HOME! :) It's been a rainy weekend, not good for moving, but we did it! We are successfully into our new house. Well, almost.... our original closing date is tomorrow and we found out on Friday that it had to be moved to next Friday. Needless to say, I was really hot about it. Apparently there was something wrong with the paperwork of the people buying our house and it will take until Friday to sort it out. We have been assured that there is nothing to be concerned about and we went ahead with moving in as planned. However, we are now living skeletally at our town house this week so we don't have to pay rent at our new house for the week. We will go to our new house after work, move more stuff around and then go home to the old house at night. A little annoying, but there isn't much to be done about it. We did get the time of closing on Friday to be after work, so I don't have to take another day off! I can't back out of my day off tomorrow (the way it is with being a teacher!) so I will be working at the house all day tomorrow. Shouldn't be too bad! Well, I better get back to the house...we will post pictures later! - Kari

New Email Address

I have a new personal email address. WAY too many issues with Excite. My NEW email address is: uncheel50@gmail.com. Please, those of you who email me, use this account. I'll probably do one of those mass emails, but wanted to let you all know this as well. Those of you who email my work account, that's fine!
-Jimmy

New House, Old House, New Dog

Slowly but surely, we are packing up and getting ready for the big move. We are SO excited! Right now, though, it feels like our lives are packed up in boxes. Walls are empty, pictures are gone. We have a lot of anticipation building about the new house. I finally have a TV worth bragging about- UNC games in high def (SWEET). We have a new couch, love seat, and tables being delivered. Lots of new and it is fun- just can't wait to get settled in.
Perhaps the thing I'm equally excited about to moving is the fact that we think we're going to get a dog in the middle of October. A friend of Larry's (my cousin) has another friend who had a stray show up on her porch. He is a Golden mix who is between 1 1/2 and 2 1/2. So we're planning a trip to NC in the beginning of October to pick up our addition to our family. The lady is supposed to send pictures and when we get those, I'll put a picture up.
That's all for now. Hopefully we'll have some pictures in the next couple of days to show everyone.
-Jimmy

Basketball Schedule Posted

Our basketball schedule for the upcoming season is posted online. Go to: spotswoodathletics.org and find the Boys Basketball 08-09 scroll down link. You can see our "tentative" schedule (it's probably pretty much set in stone, but we'll be official and call it tentative). I hope that many people can make it down to games this year. We'd love to have guests at our new house. And our team has the potential to be pretty good. So check out the schedule and hopefully it will work for folks to come catch a game!!
-Jimmy

BOUGHT!!!!

Well, what a week this has been...and its only Monday! Not only does school start tomorrow, but we just finished negotiating for a home we wanted, and we got it! If you want to take a look at it you can go to Massanutten Realty's web page and type in the MLS #65934 and it will come up! We are looking at a move at the end of September from the looks of it. It's all going to happen so quickly. We are looking forward to ironing out all the details and getting out of here!

On another note, tomorrow is my first day at my new job. My classroom is all set up, after several weeks of work, now all it needs are the kiddies! Everything is so new, I don't even know all the staff's names yet and we don't have a policy manuel yet. My new boss, Kenny (he is the best) describes us as a plane that is being build in mid-air as it is flying passengers. He showed us this commercial to kind of make that point. Lots of changes for us in just a very short time....now all we need is the dog! :) - Kari

SOLD!!!

Hard to believe I'm even writing this message!! But today, we signed the sale contract of our house. We will close on September 29. We looked at 5 houses today, and will look at an additional 7 on Sunday. I know that sounds like a lot. But this next decision is a big one. It will be mine and Kari's first house that we will buy together. We are excited but want to make sure that we make the absolute best decision possible with the houses currently on the market. We will keep everyone posted on the house hunting. It is a relief to know that we will be moving into a HOUSE in a NICE neighborhood. WE CAN'T WAIT!!!

Lessons in Patience

I guess that God just thinks Kari and I are very impatient people. We still have not heard anything about a Golden Retriever- it's looking more and more like we might just put that process "on hold" for a little while. We've got most of the doggie goodies but I think it's getting to the place where we might just wait. I definitely want to go with Golden Treasures, I just don't like the waiting.
Another lesson in patience- our house. We think that, again, we MIGHT have a buyer. However, no offer has been officially made. So, in trying to learn from past lessons taught, we are not getting our hopes up. Although each update from our realtor of positive news does get us excited. How could it not?
Finally- RUDY. This is the lesson that shows that if you're patient you will be rewarded. Now, Rudester is not perfect but boy, oh boy, what a different dog. He has calmed down considerably. He listens nearly 100% better outside. It was actually really great to see him this weekend and see how far he has come with the love and consistency that mom and dad have provided for him.
I guess, thinking of Rudy, I know that if we are patient, there are good things around the various corners for us. At least for the time-being we have each other, a roof over our heads, jobs, food on the table, etc. Very much to be grateful for and much to look forward to as well! It's probably good that we're learning to be more patient!!
-Jimmy