My Mom's Birthday Celebration

Great Grandma Czarnecki - 88 years old!

Tony & Mason

Kaimon & Mason

We all met at Mom & Bill's house to celebrate mom's, Nichole's and Rachel's birthday. It was lots of fun. My mom, as usaual, made an awesome dinner -- crab legs, steak, scallops, shrimp scampi, and baked potatoes. While the men watched a movie (with the volume so loud the neighbors could hear it) the women had a great time yik yaking and playing with the babies.

Mason is almost 1 year old and he is walking. He's a spitting image of Tony. Such a cutie pie.

Rachel came up for the weekend. It's always such a pleasure to see her. Of course, I didn't get many pictures. Was too busy socializing. The amazing thing is we didn't play any games or cards.

Family Time

Amber, Chris & Family came over for dinner. Both Amber and Chris are off on paternity leave. Amber is off for 3 months and Chris is off for 1 month. Cooper is so good. He never fusses or cries. He just sits there content. Kenzie LOVES Kaimon. She follows him around yelling .... "Kaimon, come here". Kenzie is such a tom-boy. Her and Kaimon played Cops - chasing each other around with guns shotting each other. Loads of fun!

APPROVED to Purchase New Home!!

My Mom, Paul, Lori with Kaimon, Amber holding Cooper, Chris holding Kenzie


Paul & I have been looking to purchase a house for about 2 years now. It seems like everytime we would find a house we liked and wanted to put a bid in, the home was already in escrow or the seller was accepting many bids and would accept the highest bid. Every door was closed. That's how we ended up renting for a year, which was such a blessing. In the year that we have rented home prices have dropped dramatically. The house that we are purchasing a year ago would have been at least $100k more. When we found this house and called our realtor we were expecting the same result -- either the house was already in escrow or they were wanting many offers. Much to our surprise there weren't any offers on the house at all. It's a foreclosure home so we figured because there were no offers, maybe the home was in bad shape -- no applicance, no flooring, etc. Again, much to our surprise the home was in awesome shape. The bank had just repainted the entire house, all the applicance and flooring was in take, it was perfect. We decided to put in an offer, figuring it would take the bank at least 2 weeks to get back to us. Another surprise, the same day we made the offer the bank made a counter offer. The next day we countered the counter offer and the bank accepted our offer. So within 2 days everything was settled. We have received loan approval, we're getting our down payment together, the house was appraised yesterday, the inspection is scheduled for next Tuesday, closing is scheduled for March 31st. Everything is coming together. Our lease doesn't expire until May 31st, so we will have some time to move slowly versus the rush of having to move everything in a weekend. The other great part is our new house is in the same neighborhood we live in now. Kaimon will go to the same school, ride the same bus, have the same friends. God is soooo Good!!

Living Room

Dining Room

Kitchen

Dinette