Are We Ready?

Today was a good day like most other days.  We woke up and had a great breakfast then set off in search of prices of the things we will need if we become home owners.  So we started our research at non other than the Home Depot!  This is a dangerous store.  We walked in went straight for the ceiling fans.  We don't have any in this new home so we figured it might be good to help keep the cost of our utilities down.  We found a few we liked and other we thought were awful!  Good thing we aren't buying them now because they are a bit pricey.  (at least when you have to buy 5 of them)  Then we headed over to the lawn mowers.  Yes we will have to get a lawn mower or else pay some ridiculous price each month to have a "professional" come out and do what Joe and I can do.  Then we remembered there are no exterior lights on this new home so we mozied on over to the lighting to price those out.  Boy, our list seems to be growing and we have no idea what else we just might need.  After that Joe decided he wanted to "just look" at some tools.  No we didn't buy any but I have rarely seen my husbands eyes shine and widen with excitement as I did today while he looked and compared table miter saws and planers, dremmel's and router tables.  I now know what to buy him if I ever find myself having an extra 700-1,000 dollars laying around. :)  Then I convinced him we should go over the IKEA near by to look at beds for the boys.  We found that no matter what we liked, we needed to have the boys there to pick out their beds.  But we did find the perfect guest bedroom set for a really good price.  (I love IKEA)  After that we took a ride over toward the house and stopped in at Lowes to see if their fans are any different than Home Depot's and we found just what we wanted!  Let's home things don't change too much in the next few months... If we get the house that is.  We then went over to the housing office to see if we could sneak another peek at the house and our housing buddy, Bev, gave us the keys and said to take our time.  We also took a look at the surrounding homes to see what the typical saturday will look like.  The pool looked great and very inviting, too bad we don't have a key :(  But in the end we just relaxed and made phone calls to get quotes on how much internet, phone and cable would be.  We left the home and decided it was time to head out for dinner.  We chose Bucca Di Beppo's for dinner.  Boy oh boy!  I love that place.  We ate and raced out to the hotel so Joe could change his clothes for the Priesthood session of General Conference.  I know we should have listened to it today but since the first session doesn't start until noon, we figure we will have time to listen to it in the morning.  I am here at the church with him so he doesn't have to drive home alone.  I have tucked myself away into a classroom and thought now would be a good time to update the blog for the day.  I hope everyone has had a great day like we have.  One word of advice... Don't go to Home Depot or Lowe's while wearing high-healed sandals.  Your feet will hurt and they will swell.  Just in case you wanted to know.    :)