Today is the first day of the rest of my life

So, I started this blogger... I'm not much for journaling, but I wanted to post a comment on Jodi's blogger, so I had to sign up.

Well, let me catch you up. We are currently, as of right this very minute, 11 days, 10 hours, and 5 minutes from closing on our first house. So, as you can imagine, my life is a little hectic. I feel like I've been packing forever and not getting anything accomplished. So, I decided to take the weekend off from packing.

I went to the City of Sioux Falls Surplus Auction yesterday with a couple of friends and we didn't buy anything. Then we decided to walk through old downtown Sioux Falls for their Sidewalk Arts Festival...(think of the fair in Centennial Park in Hot Springs times four!) We walked up and down the entire length of the fair, got some fatty fair food and were headed back to the Trolley stop to take us back to where we parked when, lo and behold, I found the perfect thing to buy to support these artists and to satisfy my shopping craving. It is a curved cement brick painted like an American Flag and they personalized it for me with our name "The Sigafoos', est. 2003" The coolest thing! Also probably the heaviest thing! We waited in the hot sun for them to finish personalizing it for me and then headed to the trolley stop. People in line are sooooooooooooooo rude! Pushing and shoving to get on the trolley no matter how long the people in front of them had been waiting. Okay, off the soap box!

I was worn out from walking, sunburned from the sun, and tired as all get out, but I was still so excited about our new brick for our new house. It still doesn't sink in all the way that we are going to be homeowners. I'm excited to move out of this apartment, but dreading all the physical work that we'll have to do to haul and unload our stuff 30 miles away.

Okay, so you want to know about the house... Well first of all it is in Baltic, South Dakota, a town smaller than Hot Springs. I'm talking one grocery store, one gas station, two bars (this IS South Dakota) I'm thinking Edgemont, but newer. The house is a ranch-style with a full basement. Two bedrooms upstairs and one non-legal downstairs. I'll have room for an office and room to spread out all of my crafting stuff without having to be crowded. I can't tell you much else about the basement. We've seen it only once, and knew right away that this was the one we wanted, so the floorplan is a little fuzzy right now. The feature that stands out in my mind is my yard. We have a fair sized front yard with a huge evergreen. The back yard has a large cement patio surrounded by a 9 foot tall privacy fence. Outside of the privacy fence, is an expansive back yard with grass and everything surrounded by a chain link fence. There's also a shed for Seth to do work in and store stuff in. Aside from that, it's just a normal house. Built in 1957 or so, it's got brown siding on it, which I'm sure we'll decide to change sooner or later. All we have left to do is get a kitchen table that matches the kitchen decor and we're set.

Well, I've written more than I thought I would, so I'm going to sign off and see how badly the Vikings are beating Seth's Cowboys, ha ha.