A Special Thank You

We want to make a special post to thank Philip & Lana for their time and energy and help during the last 15 months.

It was hard not to be able to be there and be able to take care of things ourselves, but they went above and beyond in helping us. Many times, we felt so guilty for asking them to check on yet another thing at the house or help fix something yet again. It was a helpless feeling, and we so appreciated their love and care.

We love you guys and appreciate all you've done more than we could ever express.

We Are Closed

We got a call at 3:35 pm today from our Realtor Mark Darby in Atlanta that our closing was final. We praise God for helping us find Mark who has been an amazing help through these last few crazy months. God Bless You all for your Prayers and Support.

Closing Date and Time Set!!!!!

Our closing is set for tomorrow at 2 pm!!

Yesterday we had to sign a 7 day extension on our offer because they were not going to get their loan paperwork finalized in time. Thankfully we will only need one of the seven days.

We received a text from our realtor at 3:11 this afternoon--that's a text we've been waiting for!!

Thanks for all your prayers!

Getting Close

Today is Tuesday. The new basement carpet went in on Monday. So that is done. We are now waiting to hear when the actual closing will be scheduled. It might be on Thursday, but could be on Friday.

As soon as we hear, then we can schedule the final walk through with the buyers.

It is still a waiting game, but it does seem like we are getting close!

One Week

Mark here... Well - the good news is that one week from today our closing should be over and done with. The bad news is that our water heater died and needed to be replaced - after dumping water into the basement which doesn't have a drain! Once Duane + Philip replaced the water heater (thanks, brothers!) the water cleanup began. At the request of our realtor, this evening Philip + Bruce (thanks, brothers!)went to pull the carpet back to dry the pad and found that the pad and carpet were basically ruined in about half the main room of the basement. Long story short we are going to have to replace the carpet in that room - and before the new owners do their final walkthrough before closing (probably next Tuesday or Wednesday). Please Pray that God will work out all of these details in time.

12 Days of Closing and Other Stuff...

Today is March 18. Closing date is March 30. That's 12 days to go. We are praying that the buyer's loan goes through and everything goes okay.

Miranda came through her wisdom teeth removal well. She is eating normally again and thankful to be on this side of the surgery. She has been working at a dentist office a couple of hours each day, and it was handy to have the dentist there be able to peek in her mouth a couple of times when she was concerned.

As you saw in our last post, we had a birthday boy here yesterday. Grandpa Gary and Grandma Mary came through on their way to Illinois and were able to celebrate with us. Tonight, Luke has five friends over to continue the celebration! Cooper, Conner, Braden, Brecken and Beau, along with Reed all played football and basketball before eating burgers that Mark grilled. Then Luke's ideal birthday cake--a pyramid of glazed doughnuts!

Tomorrow morning, after the boys go home, Luke's best cousin Clint is coming from Ohio to stay overnight and go with us to Bluffton for church on Sunday. James and Susan are going to be at Julie and Jarin's and we will be with all of them on Sunday evening.

And Yeah! Good News! Jarin and Julie are expecting a baby! We are so excited for them. It is going to be fun to have a baby on the Maibach side again!

Happy 12th!

Happy 12th Birthday to this handsome young man!