I just realized I forgot to post a picture of one of our family's BIGGEST Chrismtas Presents! We actually bought it all on a Black Friday sale and just LOVE it! We snagged a Leather Couch, Leather Love Seat, Rug and a super fun Trunk to nicely hide away all of the boys toys!
Darren is in love with our new picture wall!
Of course a few weeks after we bought this set we find out we need $5,000 worth of dental work including re-doing all of the dental work I had done 18 months ago! Isn't that just how life goes!? I got my root canal taken care of a few days ago and it was surprisingly a good experience! I was super antsy sitting in a chair for 2 hours though. lol. It is still a little sore, but thats what Ibuprofen is for! =D
On a positive note, we think we found a great place to live in Omaha! It's part of a Cooperative Housing Community! You can find out more about what that is here. Pretty much we buy a share of the townhome community, not necessarily the townhome itself. In short, we'll pay $500 a month and at the end of 3 years if we sell our share for what we bought it for, we will be positive $5,000!(Way better than wasting $36,000 or more in rent!) 
Most of the units are poorly taken care of and most don't even have a dishwasher, however we totally lucked out because the person living in the townhome we are looking at, has recently updated the kitchen and bath and I am in love! She also had the place professionally painted!
My MIL says its the nicest unit she has seen in that development! For this reason we dont think it will be hard to sell! Hooray! We also get to paint and accessorize and remodel it in any way we wish! (Goodbye random wall paper on the stairs! lol) And since its Cooperative Housing they have a maintenance guy you can call on any time for any reason! The communtiy is 75% LDS, they even host Institute at the Clubhouse! They also have kids music classes, kids tumbling classes, etc right at the club house! 
The location is right next to a botanical garden and surrounded by trees! It's also 5 mins away from the Henry Doorly Zoo (hello season passes!!!!), 10 minutes away from Creighton University, 15 minutes form a Super Target and 20 minutes away from Darren's folks! Sounds good to us! We are working with the current owners of the share and with a financial company as we speak. Hoping to move in May 1!
Little did Darren, or I, know I came with a dowry! lol. My dad is helping us to get the loan since you need 20% down! Apparently he had been saving some money to help us with a house one day! We plan on using the money we collect on the loan for a down payment on a nice house once Darren has graduated and secured a job!
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