Let's Try This Again

So after walking away from a house we put an offer on back in May, Tony and I were feeling pretty discouraged about the whole house buying thing.  We were beginning to think that maybe we weren't supposed to buy a house right now.  We had looked at everything on the market and nothing new was really coming available.  For about two weeks straight I was checking all the listings everyday, sometimes multiple times a day.  Then this house that we had looked at previously and liked but someone else put an offer on it before we could showed up on the listings again.  I immediately called our realtor to be sure that it really was available again.  Then called Tony to see if he was in agreement with me that we needed to put an offer on it NOW before anyone else could.  He agreed with me and we put an offer on it that evening.  The next day we walked through the house again, just to be sure.  The house is a bank owned foreclosure and has been sitting empty for over a year.  It needs some work, but nothing we can't handle, and the price is right.  The house is in our ward and school boundaries which is a plus.  Our offer was excepted, the inspection is done and looks good, and now we're waiting for the appraisal.  Then we'll be ready to close and move it!  Our closing date is set for the 5th of September right now, but we're hoping to close the end of August.  Tony and I both feel so much better and at peace about this house.  This house just seems to fit our family so much better than the other house would have.  I'm pretty excited and have been virtually doing work on the house for weeks now.  Gotta love Pinterest!  So August and September are going to be pretty crazy with 2 family reunions, scout camp for Tony, school starting for Carson and Alaina, Alaina's Birthday and baptism, and moving but we'll manage and it'll be wonderful!