Monday, August 21, 2006

Updates

New Look

Blogger has just released their beta of their new Blogspot interface. Hence the new face to my blog. i highly recommend updating your blog as it gives you many more features and a much nicer interface. My blog now shows up properly in IE and Firefox.

Home Purchase

We had an appointment with the local Credit Union, this went okay but I was not really impressed with the quality of service. The loans officer we were dealing with was overly pessimistic and did not help us to feel that we had much of a chance of qualifying. Later it became apparent that she didn't really know what she was doing as far as working with the CAHP program.

Today I had an appointment with a mortgage broker, the same one my sister and brother-in-law used and it went much better. He was very positive and encouraging. We now need to wait a couple days to find out.

Our good friend Ron came over today to look over our basement again and to go over our plans. He is the one who is going to be doing the rennovations for us. We are going to cut two new windows into the foundation for the bedrooms as a part of fire regulations, but everything looks like it will work with the layout we have planned.

We will be beginning our rennovations October as long as everything keeps going as planned.

Moooola!!!

Gotta love the Government, there is a disability tax credit that we were supposed to be receiving for my oldest son since 2000. So we got surprised with a huge back pay on this months child tax, talk about timing, man God is good!

Job

There is an interesting little story behind it, but all of a sudden two weeks ago I go from being a commission salesman to computer tech. I was a little confused and frustrated with the process but when the hand of God moves, it moves. With the change in position I pick up one more shift which means 3 back to back 13 hour days but a substantial pay increase.

Baby

Sarah is finally out of the first trimester blues. Sickness is gone and she is more or less back to her normal self minus a some energy. Baby is 3 months along and the reality of having a family of 7 is finally starting to set in.

Brothers

I am really feeling out of touch with my brothers. I had coffee with CWG, Moose amd Jaydon last Thursday which was awesome. It felt so good to get together again and talk and laugh like we used to.
We have had some really interesting topics come up at our Wednesday morning breakfasts including pornography, Israel and finances.
I find my heart almost aching for some of my other brothers that I have literally lost contact with over the summer, I don't know where they are at but I sence some struggles. Need to get together soon!

5 comments:

Nin said...

good update. (although I knew all of it)
God is so good, and being a part of your lives has been such a testimony to that truth. We love watching what God does in your life, because it always encourages us of His faithfulness and love.
That's too bad that whoever at the credit union was so pessimistic. Glad to hear the broker experience was better. Holy, reno's in October already! That's going to come real quick! It'll be neat to watch it all come together.
Oh yeah, and I tried commenting on your last post and it wouldn't let me for whatever reason. But all I wanted to say was that I really liked number 2 and 6.

Jenny said...

We used a mortgage broker, out of Saskatoon.(got referred to by Tanya~my thoughts and I) She was Awesome. We got 4.49% interest rate. If Sarah is interested she could email me on my blog site and I could send the broker's info.
Good luck with everything!

CWG said...

hey bud
I had a great time with you alos. It was very refreshed (or was it the wings) Too bad things didnt work ot with the credit union. We are planning on using them next year for our mortgage.
Hey hw do you update blogger??? I have heard others talk about that also but I can't figure out how to update it Someone said something about a google account? Need input stephanie (short circuit) (sp)
Take care

CWG said...

Hey bud check this out...Funny
http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com

CWG said...

Wow you guys must be tithing....happy to hear the great news bud. Can't wait to see the reno's.

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