This is all very exciting because after moving 8 times in 10 years, having a permanent address is more appealing than having a million dollars (almost).
I don't know if it's because I've seen one too many episodes of House Hunters, but I really didn't know it would be this HARD to find your first house. We've done all of the things we've been told to do - decide on your 'must haves' and 'can compromise' items, narrow down the location, and look past easy cosmetic fixes.
I guess I'm more amazed by the condition that home sellers choose to sell their house in. It's pretty disgusting. I understand life gets crazy and it's hard to find the time to clean yourself much less clean the whole house, but I'm amazed. For example, we looked at a house that had an outdoor pool but it had a nice deck around it. When we looked at the pool, it wasn't even being used (had a tarp on it) and had dirty deflated floats all around it. Really, homeowners? You couldn't take the 2 minutes to throw away the old floats so we could possibly PRETEND the pool was somewhat maintained? It's insane!
Anyway, we've found a few that we're interested in but we aren't ready to make moves yet. We have to be out of our apartment by October 20th, so we figured we should have an offer in and accepted no later than mid September. Eeek!
Enough boring talk - here's some pictures for you:
Saturday night beer Olympics - so much fun!
Newlyweds! Can you see the love?
Love
From left to right: Greece, Ireland, Australia, and USA. We won GOLD! Woot Ireland!
We will never grow up
Cindy, Kendall and myself at Isabella's & Jayden's birthday party in Fredericksburg!
Birthday boy Jayden! Can't believe he's 3!
Taiten cheesin' it up
I had the cutest picture of Bella eating her bday cake but I think I deleted it by accident. :( Boo!
I love our life back in Richmond. :) If only Ryan can find a job he loves and we can find a house we love, then all will be right with the world!
I love all the cute pictures!!! Thanks so much for coming to the party and celebrating with us!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the house search! Try not to get stressed with it--just have fun! :) (easier said than done, I know!) But, good luck and we hope to see you again soon!!!
:)