The Downing Family: June 2013

I apologize again for the amount of time between posts. As you already know we are very busy this summer and it doesn't seem that it will ever slow down. After reading the title of this post, one would assume we have sold our house. And that is partially correct, we are under contract. The official contract date was June 8th. Since then the buyers have had an inspection completed that took 3 hours long on a Thursday evening. On Monday we received the results of said inspection and let's just say we had to extend the 5 day negotiation period until this coming Monday. I won't burden you with the specifics but what the inspector reported may not actually be true but the buyers believe him so we wait. On Monday we will all gather to look at the "issues" with a professional to determine if the "issues" are actually "issues" at all. At this time. we are not that confident this purchase will go through as the buyers seem a bit demanding in their request to put in a pricey fix for something that very well may not be broken. So stay tuned as our quest to sell this house continues. Let's just all hope we can come to an agreement on Monday or else this deal may be done!

Happy Thursday!

Well hello everyone! So sorry it has been a little while since the last post. We have been busy busy busy around the Downing house. Amanda graduated, Vanessa graduated, Josh was in Texas for a week for work and more! Oh, and we had a anniversary that we have yet to celebrate :) While it was a busy month we are so proud and excited for everyone's accomplishments.

Amanda graduated from Missouri Western State University with her teaching degree and will be teaching in the St. Joseph MO school district starting in Aug. She is also moving into her very own apartment this weekend. We made the trip to St. Joe to watch her graduate and even brought a few things she left at our house to town last week on our way to Grant City. She is super excited to start this new chapter and we are excited for her too.

Then the following Thursday, Vanessa graduated from Southwest Baptist University with her Associates in Health Science. Her graduation was held in Springfield MO, so we took another road trip to watch her graduate too! She has been submitting resumes and has had a few interviews and we wish her luck on finding a job!

The next morning Josh left for Texas and the kids and I headed to Oak Grove for an extended weekend. Nana and Tim purchased a new home and we spent 3 days painting just the kitchen and living room. This place is pretty big! The kids got to spend some time outside with Grammy and we headed home a couple days later.

He LOVES to climb on anything and everything

And finally last weekend after Josh got home we headed to Grant City to help Dennis clean house....literally! This weekend is Grant City clean up days and he wanted to get some closets and such cleaned out that were in desperate need. We also repainted Josh's old room and said goodbye to the blue splatter paint! It was an extremely productive weekend with a little tornado scare mixed in. The house looks wonderful and the bedroom is coming along nicely :)

That brings us up to speed now! We don't have anything too exciting planned for this weekend. Josh had a golf tournament this morning and everyone besides myself is napping at the moment. We decided we are going to try our first camping trip with the kids over Father's Day Weekend so we may make a trip this evening to check out some camping gear because what we have is slim. Tomorrow we actually have a whole day with nothing planned which hasn't happened in a long while.

As always, we are anxiously awaiting calls for potential buyers to look at our home. We have had at least 1 per week for the last 4 weeks. We have considered going to look at a few homes to get an idea for what we like and don't like and the area itself. Keep your fingers and toes crossed that we can hopefully sell the house by the end of the summer! That's my own personal goal ;)

Here are a few pictures from today---