Cathching Up

Well since half of my house is packed and the other half is not, I cannot find my camera cord to download one of my cameras. So for now I will just have to write a quick update and hopefully I can have some photos at some point in the not so distant future.
For Memorial Day we flew to Seattle to go and see Jeff. We had a great time touring his new campus and getting to know Seattle and Tacoma. Some of the highlights were the Mariner's game (Jacoby was so funny- I have pictures so I will wait and tell the story) and the Tacoma zoo. Which may have been my favorite zoo ever.
Jarod flew home on Tuesday and Jacoby and I drove to Emily's house and spent a few days with her and her kids. It was good to see them. Jacoby had a blast and loved going to the beach looking for crabs.
The following weekend we went to Cincinnati to go and look at houses. It was the most insane trip ever! First of all, Jacoby decided that he gets car sick now and proceeded to throw up in our rental car and then followed it up the next day by throwing up in our real estate agents car a few times. Luckily for me, I was prepared and got it all in a bag instead of all over his car. We stopped watching movies in the car after that and he did much better but I would not recommend house hunting with a 2 1/2 year old. We saw I think 13 houses in one day and then proceeded to see 6 or so more the following day. Jacoby got to the point that he would look and see if they had a swing set and if they didn't he didn't like that house and wanted to move on to the next one. Jarod and I started tag teaming the houses. I would go in and look around while he played with Jacoby outside and then we would switch, quickly giving each other an update as we ran past each other. It was kinda funny. Also, being two and potty trained he always seemed to pick the houses that didn't have toilet paper for him to need to go the bathroom- fun times! His timing is perfect! By the end of the day, you could tell he had been listening to us all day. We drove by two brixk building that look like our library here in Chicago. Jacoby says, "Look Mama, two libraries- that's impressive!".
After an exhausting few days we narrowed it down to two. We put on offer in on our first choice but soon found out that they had accepted an offer an hour before ours went threw. We then put an offer on our second favorite house. After a week of negotiating, we agreed on the price but after the inspection came back questionable on the foundation we had a structural engineer come in and look at it. He estimated $50,000 to fix the foundation!! We decided to walk. The sellers came back and offered to pay the $50,000 to fix it if we were still interested but we decided that at this time we are going to walk away.
UGH.... I just really want to find a house and move- this has been going on FOREVER!!!