An Angel

I seriously am convinced with have an angel watching over us these days. Someone up above making sure everything goes to plan and helping us along the way. With Shea's father and grandfather passing away 5 years ago, I know that they have been watching over us. Helping us along because they are not here to help and provide guidance. This whole home process has gone way to smoothly and I truly feel it was because of them.

I have never gone into detail of how we got the house so here it goes:

Back in the end of August I was at a photo shoot for a huge project I was working on at work. It was a 3 day long photoshoot with 5am call times and not ending till 6pm. I was mentally and physically exhausted. I was on day 2 of the photoshoot and found out we would be ending early and we didn't have to stay at the hotel that night. I was happy to go home and sleep in my own bed and see Shea.

I got a text from our realtor at around 5pm that the house we loved so much had an offer on it, and the offer was being presented the next day at 12pm. So, if we wanted to make an offer this was the time and we needed to move fast. I was FREAKING out. Literally upset, scared, and feeling sick to my stomach. I texted Shea and said OMG what are we going to do!! Now we have to make an offer and I am not emotionally ready to make one. Shea of course the "calm-downer" of katy said take a breather and we will figure it out when you get home tonight.

I finally left the shoot at 6:30pm and got home around 8pm. Shea was waiting at my house where we talked about the whole thing. It also happen to be our fanstasy football draft that night. So, as we are drafting our players we are on the phone with the realtor figuring out what to offer. (probably why my team sucks so much this year) After we got off the phone with him and the draft ended we talked it over with my parents and finally came to a decision on an offer. The whole issue was that our realtor didn't support our offer and they thought we were to low and with another offer on the table we needed to be prepared to not get the house with what we were submitting. The had every right to be scared, we were offering 30,000 under asking price. But, with the work needed on the house we knew we need to stand firm. (at least that night we did)

So, we went to sleep all crazed and scared not knowing what was going to happen. The next morning I went to th photoshoot again to coordinate the packing up of the product. Our realtor sent us the offer letter and we both signed it digitally. Me with my computer on my lap on a lounge chair telling people move that over there and e-signing a document. I then rushed back to my car put my computer away and helped pack the rest. Twenty minutes before the truck was coming to pick up the merchandised it started pouring..i mean POURING... like cats and dogs! I have never been so soaked in my life from a rian storm. I finally left the shoot, but not before my boss boss looked at me and said I should go home and change before going back to the office. Then, she corrected and said work from home, you deserve it. I had every intention of going back to the office, but by a miracle she said go and work from home.

I drove home soaked from head to toe and walked into the door when my dad saw me. (see my parents were on vacation for 2 weeks! Another MIRACLE!!) My mom and dad saw me and my dad said let me make you a sandwich you look like you had a long day so far. (sweetest dad ever!) I ate the sandwich and talked about my hell of a morning when I got a phone call. It was my realtor and his boss calling in, after many attempts later we finally got Shea on the phone as well. (he was at work) They told us that the other offer was a lot higher than ours but that the seller was giving us another chance to make a counter offer.

Now, we knew for sure that meant the other buyer was not a solid buyer. (which we found out later was true) Why else would they give us another chance after we low-balled the hell out of them!? So, this made us a little happy but then stressed about going above our intial offer. After talks with the parents many phone calls with our mortgage guy and back and forth between Shea and I we finally decided to offer 13,000 under asking price. It was a lot more then our first offer but it was what felt still comfortable at and we really loved the house.

We called back our realtor and told him the offer and then there was silence for like 5 hours! Longest 5 hours of my life! I sat on the couch and tried to work but was mostly distracted by my mind. I went to go get food with my brother and came back to eat it at home. We were all sitting around the table ready to eat (my mom, dad, and brother.. my only regret during this process is that Shea wasn't there :( but what can you do!) I took one bite of food and the phone rang again. It was our realtor and his boss again with more news. We got a hold of Shea and put him on speaker...

Our realtor's boss: "so we have good news and bad news, which do you want first...?"
Me: "I guess I will take the bad news....."
Our realtor's boss: "The bad news is we couldn't call you earlier to tell you the GOOD NEWS!! You got the house!!"
Me: ((MOUTH WIDE OPEN AND ALMOST FAINTING!!))

I literally could have fallen to the floor, thankfully I was in the seated position. After that i couldn't eat anymore, my appetite disappeared and craziness started! We could not believe it!

So, that is the long story of how we got the house, and almost 45 days later we are closing in 9 days... WHAT!!??

But, the reason I started this, is that everything fell into place perfectly! My parents were home to help, I got to work from home the first time EVER in my year of working there, and we got the house. Perfect perfection it was.

Earlier today we couldn't find Shea's 2011 W2 and we were freaking out! Our annoying mortgage guy (who I want to yell at so badly!!) told us the day before everything is sent to the underwriter that we are missing documents so we go crazy looking for them, and when all hope was almost lost Shea grabbed a paper that had fallen behind his computer and there GLOWING was the w2! I have never been so happy to see a piece of paper!

But, just another miracle on the long list! We have some amazing people looking out for us! And we truly miss them dearly. :)