Farmington, NM visit..and New House!!

A couple of weekends ago Christian took me down to Farmington to see it. It was really nice, much bigger than I expected. It has all your basic conveniences: A lowes and Home Depot, Target, Walmart supercenter, K-mart, Big lots, it's even got a Hobby Lobby, 2 scrapbook stores and a Sally Beauty Supply. It has a couple of mexican and Chinese restaurants, and Applebees, Chilis, KFC. taco bell...the list goes on!! I didn't expect it to have so much. I really like the wards down there, so many families, it's a great family town. We also visited the office Christian will be working at and it is beautiful!! New faciluty, new everything! It is well taken care of and business continues to boom! Houses are not as expensive as I thought they were, it just depends on where they are located. We were originally going to rent a house for a while, but Christian's new boss, who is awesome, talked us into buying a small house. After looking at some homes with the 2 days we had, we found one we liked. after counteroffering it, christian decided to stop before he accepted their last offer because we still were not approved for a loan yet!! That's when we got a call from a friend of Mike's(christian's boss) telling us that the house he is building will be ready by July 1st! This was one of the houses that we looked at briefly for the heck of it(which was still far from frinished) but knew it wouldn't be done in time, so we put it aside in our minds. Now that it will be done, we started the negotiating of the terms with the owner and after 2 weeks finally came to an agreement. I faxed the the contract today, so that's it!! Technically we don't own it yet, but signed a contract that we will buy it after renting for 3 months or we will loose a big chunk of Earnest money!! Christian just needed some time to save money for a down payment on a mortgage, so by the end of Sept, we will own a house!! Oof course there are pros and cons to it. One we haven't seen it finished completely yet and only glanced at it once when it was still being built, but on the other hand he gave me to chance to choose everything I wanted: The cabinets, countertops, tile, carpet, faucets, light fixtures, mirrors, sinks, even the colors of the walls and the outside colors of the house. It is pretty much cutomized to my choices!!! How cool is that! I just can't wit to see it! Turns out that the owner's wife and I have similar tastes, I chose things that were close to what she had originally picked out! After taling with her for a while and telling her what I kind of wanted, I can trust her to make it look good. It is really hard to choose things long distace and over the internet without being there to actually see it! She assures me that it is going to look nice! It is also cool because instead of putting in what we want later and buying it all ouselves, they get a good deal from wholesalers, so we will be getting pretty nice stuff! I am so excited! Another great thing is that it is in the most sought after neighborhoods, a great part of town(just over the fence from the wealthy country club homes)in the best school district and only a 20 min. walk to christian's work!! Well, I will bring you more updates once we move in which is in 3 1/2 weeks!!! Awwww!