Thursday, November 29, 2012
MRI Results
We got the results back for Jacob's MRI. It showed that the tumor was actually larger than the last MRI. The doctor was surprised, but then she realized that the MRI taken last time was at the beginning of July and the chemo didn't start until the end of August so there was almost two months for it to grow before we started the treatments. With that taken into consideration, the chemo should be working for him just fine. We will know for sure with the next MRI in a few months. It is just going to take a while to get it gone, but at least he is handling it just fine. They could do a stronger chemo, but that would make him feel awful and loose his hair, so we'll just keep chugging along. :-)
Monday, November 19, 2012
More Blessings
Last Friday we had blessings rain down on our heads.
A little back story:
We got our house renovated through the city in 2010. This was a great thing because they spent $24,000 on our house and as long as we stayed in the house for five years, it would all be paid off. A little bit has been coming out each month, but we still owe about $12,000. It is in the form of a lean on our house.
Scott and I were trying to make plans to pay it off, but we couldn't figure out how we were going to pay it off as well as get a down payment for our new house. (Renting in Austin costs more than a house payment.) We still knew that our family was supposed to go to Austin and it would work out some way. I was pretty down, though, because I just couldn't see how it was ever going to happen, and I hate having Scott working in Austin and only coming home on the weekends. We are reading the D&C right now as a couple and at my lowest point we read section 58 that told me that "Ye cannot behold with your natural eyes, for the present time, the design of your God concerning those things which shall come hereafter." Talk about an answer to prayers.
Well, last Friday, Heavenly Father showed us a little more of how it is going to be possible. I had recently written a letter to the city trying to see if there was any way to make payments on the money we owe. She called me and told me that as long as the people that buy our home are within the income requirements, they can just transfer the lean over to the buyer. It will still continue to go down and be payed off in three years. With this, we don't have to pay the lean back at all! We can use the money we were planning on using for the lean to put a down payment on our house and also use some to pay the remainder of our current mortgage if we need to.
Our Realtor told us it might be hard to find someone willing to take over the lean even though they don't have to even pay anything for it, but we are going to use that as a bartering chip when they ask for us to lower our price. It may still take a while to find a buyer, but at least we can see that it is possible now. We lowered our asking price and have three people already coming this week to look at our house.
The lady from the city also told us there is a home buying assistance program in Arlington for people that meet the income requirements we need. It requires people to take a one day class on home buying and then they can have up to $10,000 for a down payment and closing costs. They have a Realtor representing them that I could call to let him know about our house. They would be more likely to transfer the lean because they know more about the renovation program that the house had. We may just be able to sell this house quickly! (I can't get too excited, though. I hate to get my hopes up.)
Also, on Friday, we got our pre-approval letter from Scott's new work for our new house contingent upon us selling our current house. We also got a list of Realtors in Austin that the credit union likes to use. If we use one of those Realtors they will give us 20% of the commission to go to closing costs.
We are going on Thanksgiving weekend to Austin. (My sister is visiting family in Las Vegas so we are taking over her house.) We are hoping to be able to put a bid on a house while we are there.
I would love to move over Christmas break, but I am trying my hardest to be on the Lord's schedule not my own.
Prayers are appreciated. You can see that they are working! Thank you all and we love you guys.
A little back story:
We got our house renovated through the city in 2010. This was a great thing because they spent $24,000 on our house and as long as we stayed in the house for five years, it would all be paid off. A little bit has been coming out each month, but we still owe about $12,000. It is in the form of a lean on our house.
Scott and I were trying to make plans to pay it off, but we couldn't figure out how we were going to pay it off as well as get a down payment for our new house. (Renting in Austin costs more than a house payment.) We still knew that our family was supposed to go to Austin and it would work out some way. I was pretty down, though, because I just couldn't see how it was ever going to happen, and I hate having Scott working in Austin and only coming home on the weekends. We are reading the D&C right now as a couple and at my lowest point we read section 58 that told me that "Ye cannot behold with your natural eyes, for the present time, the design of your God concerning those things which shall come hereafter." Talk about an answer to prayers.
Well, last Friday, Heavenly Father showed us a little more of how it is going to be possible. I had recently written a letter to the city trying to see if there was any way to make payments on the money we owe. She called me and told me that as long as the people that buy our home are within the income requirements, they can just transfer the lean over to the buyer. It will still continue to go down and be payed off in three years. With this, we don't have to pay the lean back at all! We can use the money we were planning on using for the lean to put a down payment on our house and also use some to pay the remainder of our current mortgage if we need to.
Our Realtor told us it might be hard to find someone willing to take over the lean even though they don't have to even pay anything for it, but we are going to use that as a bartering chip when they ask for us to lower our price. It may still take a while to find a buyer, but at least we can see that it is possible now. We lowered our asking price and have three people already coming this week to look at our house.
The lady from the city also told us there is a home buying assistance program in Arlington for people that meet the income requirements we need. It requires people to take a one day class on home buying and then they can have up to $10,000 for a down payment and closing costs. They have a Realtor representing them that I could call to let him know about our house. They would be more likely to transfer the lean because they know more about the renovation program that the house had. We may just be able to sell this house quickly! (I can't get too excited, though. I hate to get my hopes up.)
Also, on Friday, we got our pre-approval letter from Scott's new work for our new house contingent upon us selling our current house. We also got a list of Realtors in Austin that the credit union likes to use. If we use one of those Realtors they will give us 20% of the commission to go to closing costs.
We are going on Thanksgiving weekend to Austin. (My sister is visiting family in Las Vegas so we are taking over her house.) We are hoping to be able to put a bid on a house while we are there.
I would love to move over Christmas break, but I am trying my hardest to be on the Lord's schedule not my own.
Prayers are appreciated. You can see that they are working! Thank you all and we love you guys.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Catch Up
Everything is going great here. Jacob does just fine with his chemo treatments every week. He is a little tired on Wednesday nights after getting the medication, but other than that he is his normal self. We will be getting an MRI on the 14th to see how effective it has been.
We have just been crazy busy getting ready to move. We are trying to sell our house and hopefully we can get what we owe on it. The realtor is coming by to take pictures tomorrow and get the house listed on the internet. Scott and I already signed all the paperwork on Friday. I really pray that the house sells quickly.
Scott starts his new job in Austin tomorrow. He is staying with my sister during the week and then coming home on the weekends. I really hate having our family separated, but we have to sell this house before the family can move. Any prayers would be appreciated.
The kids are all taking the move very calmly. We will see what happens when we actually have a date that we are going to move. Right now things are in limbo.
It will be interesting getting all the medical stuff transferred but Jacob's doctors assure me that it will be just fine and that Austin has great medical facilities.
We have just been crazy busy getting ready to move. We are trying to sell our house and hopefully we can get what we owe on it. The realtor is coming by to take pictures tomorrow and get the house listed on the internet. Scott and I already signed all the paperwork on Friday. I really pray that the house sells quickly.
Scott starts his new job in Austin tomorrow. He is staying with my sister during the week and then coming home on the weekends. I really hate having our family separated, but we have to sell this house before the family can move. Any prayers would be appreciated.
The kids are all taking the move very calmly. We will see what happens when we actually have a date that we are going to move. Right now things are in limbo.
It will be interesting getting all the medical stuff transferred but Jacob's doctors assure me that it will be just fine and that Austin has great medical facilities.
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