Darin – Page 39 – Kotter Family

Fourth of July fun

Sparklers!

Everyone lined up, shooting water balloon targets.

Shooting a BB gun

Playing in the foam pit at iJump

Getting out of the foam pit is the hard part

So still not 100% official but we are getting close to owning our own home. The bank has processed everything and came back to us on the 5th asking when we wanted to close. The current owners couldn’t close before this Friday but we didn’t want to move right before/on Lucas’ birthday, so we set the close date on July 17th. Pretty exciting but until we close and we officially become owners, I’m still trying not to get too excited (much to Kryssi’s annoyance).

Working with dad

Water, guns, and fun!

Over the last weekend, we had some fun with family. It was over 90 each day, so the kids spent as much time as they could playing in the water. Great Grandpa brought his BB gun and Lucas was super excited to be able to shoot that.

Playing catch with water balloons

Enjoying the pool

Waiting to catch some water balloons

Shooting Paul’s handgun

Looking down the barrel

Great Grandpa helping Lucas shoot

Feeding ducks

First picnic and first time feeding the ducks. You can tell he was thrilled about that.

Some baby ducklings, all crowded on one rock.

First Real Bath

Wasn’t loving it much but he enjoyed it more then the sponge baths.

House

So we’ve been looking at houses over the past month or so. We made an offer on one we really liked, but unfortunately, we got out bid on that one. Well we found another one in the same neighborhood and after some back and forth with the seller, we had an accepted offer.

So nothing is 100% official yet and won’t be until we close, but we just heard back today that the appraisal came in and everything looked good there, so the last step is submitting everything, which our bank said should take about a week. After that, assuming nothing else comes up, we can close at any point.

So I was going to wait until we actually closed to tell people, just in case it didn’t work out, but Kryssi’s had a hard time keeping it a secret, so I think most people at this point know. So just keep your fingers crossed that everything works out and in the meantime, check out some pictures of our (hopefully) new place.