Come, come ye saints...Please?

After we found our house, we decided to tour around our soon to be hometown to see what it had to offer. We toured the town square, with the historic county courthouse...





Checked out the beautiful architecture and the amazing stained glass dome...

And decided that we would like to go and find the church that we will be attending in just a few months time.

Oh wait... is that a church or a strip mall? Why it's both!!!

Never in my life did I imagine going to church at the same place where I could buy a slurpee and get my nails done. Sweet. Also, we were told that church attendance is 20-30 people on a good day. I guess you are about to know a relief society teacher/primary chorister/visiting teaching supervisor/ward pianist (who can barely play)/scout leader. Am I missing anything? Can't wait. ;0)

Happy House Hunting!!

I can't believe that we actually did it, but we bought a house!!!! I seriously thought that this day would never come. Here it is in all of it's glory. It is over one hundred years old, has an acre of land and is around 3,000 square feet. It has such character and I am really excited to be able to get to work on it and make it my own.




This is a picture of our back yard. The present owner did alot of work on it and it has a great pergola and deck in the back. He also planted over 3000 bulbs in the front and back, so in the springtime it will be really beautiful.

This is our front room. I love the window it has and it has really great hardwood floors as well.

This is the dining room. It has the same great hardwood as the living room and a great light fixture .

This is the kitchen. It has amish-made cabinets (shout out to amish) and great appliances. It has carpet in part of it (what they were thinking I will never know), but it is still cute and it will look better once I start ripping things out.

I'll post some more picture next time I blog, hopefully, so you can see some of the upstairs as well. We are so excited about this whole house buying thing and about finally having something to call our own. Hopefully all of the loan process goes smoothly and everything goes as planned.

The Suite Life of Rob and Becky

We arrived in Illinois today with the goal to pick out our new house!!! We made it here with no problems, except for the fact that we left Rob's briefcase, with his laptop and our camera, sitting on a curb in a St. Louis parking garage. No big deal at all, of course......Yeah......And no big deal that we left it in the most crime ridden city in the nation (just passed up Detriot......congrats St. Louis!) Hmmm, like I said no big deal.

Anyway, despite the fact that we didn't realize it was gone until we had almost reached the Illinois state line and despite the fact that we left it in the ghetto we were blessed and some good samaritan found it and took it straight to the airport police. We were able to pick it up right away and only lost about an hour of travel time.

We made it to our hotel and we were greeted with this in the lobby:

The kids loved it and it made my day too. We were also very happy because they had upgraded our hotel room to a suite!! Last time we stayed at this hotel, we were in a room with water leaking from the roof. We called them and told them about it and asked them for a new room. They just came and just moved our beds and swore up and down that all of their rooms were full. It started leaking more and more throughout the day and by the nightime it was incredibly wet and incredibly loud from all of the dripping. I went to the lobby and threw a fit and miraculously (cue angelic music) they had JUST had a room open up at 2 in the morning. How wonderful. Anyway, long story short, they owed us something for our next trip.

The kids loved taking a bath in the huge whirlpool tub:

And jumping up and down on the two king beds:

And they loved watching TV in the little living room:

It's not much, but it made our day much better because we felt like we go something extra. Score for the Mehls!!!

We'll try to keep you posted on our house hunting advertures during the week, if I am not stricken blind by the overzealous use of faux wood paneling, bad 80's flashback wallpaper and American flag wall borders that seem to abound in these parts. Pray for me.