we signed away our lives away!

Hummm. Has it really been almost a month since we last posted? We sure have been struggling to keep this thing up to date! Seth and I have had some pretty big developments in the last few weeks. We are currently in the process of buying a home. We found a house we really liked in Colonial Farms two weeks ago and put an offer on the house. The owners came back with a counter-offer that we accepted. We met with the bank last week to finalize our loan and as far as I know we are all set to go. We close and move in on April 21, which is about 3 weeks away! How exciting! Minus feeling like we signed away our lives at the bank and with the realtor, we really looking forward to having a place to call our own!
Seth has also taken a new job at Bashor Homes. They offered him a full time position with day-time shifts that he just couldn't turn down, even though he loves his job at JDC. Our schedules had just been too off. I worked during the day time, with weekends off, and he was working the exact opposite. This last week has been difficult because he is working full time at Bashor and still finishing up quite a few hours at JDC that he was already scheduled for. His plan is to work a little at JDC too, just to keep his foot in the door, but he is doing too much now and is exhausted.
Tennis at the Bethany started for me 2 1/2 weeks ago. We practiced the 2 weeks in freezing cold, windy weather. It was pretty miserable! It is finally becoming nice and beginning to feel like spring. We had our first match last night against Goshen High School and both the varsity and jv won! It was very exciting with 2 three set matches and 2 tiebreakers!

My spring break starts Friday afternoon and Seth and I are going to visit Rebekah in Tennessee for a few days and then spend a couple days in Indy as well. We have been looking forward to this trip for a long time. It will be wonderful to get away and have a break from what has become our routine.
Sarah

What? A win?

Well, we started our new soccer season last night. It is our third season. We have had only one win in the two previous seasons. However....somehow, the first game this season, we pulled off a win! We were up 2-0 at halftime, in the second half the other team came back and tied it up. They got many shots on goal, but our goalie Jeron Baker had an amazing game! Then, with less then 10 seconds to go, Pete pull one in the goal which allowed us our second win ever.

Next weekend (the 25th) is the big tennis match! Sarah's high school tennis team will be doing a scrimmage against some of my friends and I. It should be pretty fun. I have no idea how we will match up skill wise against the high school girls.

Alright, that's all for now! House hunting is fun and I am looking forward to updating you all on what we are finding.

Seth

House Hunting

Well Seth and I have begun the process of house hunting... well sort of. In the last month we've looked at several houses, but nothing to serious yet. The word has gotten out in the Mennonite curcuit that we have started looking for our first house and we keep getting emails and phone calls from area Mennonites who know someone who is selling their house. It is amazing. These people don't even need to advertise or go through a realator, they just make an announcement at church or in the Goshen College weekly newsletter and BOOM word spreads. We have found one house that we liked a lot, but someone else made an offer the day after we looked at it and we didn't feel ready to make an offer ourselves. It felt too rushed. This house was awesome though. It had a huge living room with a fireplace, and a basement room we could put a ping pong table in, and best of all a tree house with a zip cord that ran to the basketball hoop! I guess it wasn't meant to be though.
Some days I am really ready to have a house, and than other days I am completely content in our apartment. We don't have any responsibilities with renting and that is very nice. But we are also feeling ready for a little more room, especially with the new addition to our family...the elliptical machine! It is also nice to have Joel just down the stairs from us now, but there are times that I get so sick of having to hear the people living around us. Renting and owning both have their own perks. At this point we are just keeping our eyes open! Happy Friday.