the weekend

Well...the weekend was spent looking for a house! It was actually fun! We found 2 we really like...we've seen the inside once on each of them. Aunt M...the real estate agent aunt of my sweet wonderful husband, had been helping a lot! She's been a lot of fun to work with too! We've got one more for sure that we want to look at before we try to make a serious decision. It's not vacant till Tuesday, and since the people were working on moving out, they didn't want to show it until they were actually out (understandable...)... Aunt M said to never make a decision based on the first walk through, so if we can go see the other one on Tuesday, we'll see if we can see the 2 we know we like again, and maybe by the weeks end offer on a house?? Wow...to be a grown-up is kinda fun! hehehe...

The first house we saw that we liked...was 3 br 2 bath...1440ish sq ft...2 car garage...vaulted ceilings in the living room and master bedroom (which makes them feel bigger!). The downsides to that one...main one is the washer and dryer connections are in the garage...when we went to see it, it was obvious that she had just finished drying clothes, and was HOT in the garage! The kitchen countertops are mauve...it's not TOO bad of "pink" but it's still pink, so it'd be something we'd want to change...the grass in the back yard is mostly dead (good thing in my opinion...less to mow, but my sweet wonderful husband doesn't like that)...he thinks we would need to get rid of some of the trees in the back yard...there's 3 or 4 big trees back there...

The second house...we referred to it as "the house next to the dirty house"....because the house next door was for sale also, and we went in it first, and it was nasty....really that's the biggest drawback on the house next to the dirty house...is it's got a nasty neighbor...granted it appears she's moving (since the house is for sale), but what would be willing to move in to that house in the shape it's in...and where is the street going to go in terms of value considering the house next door...I also didn't really like the location of the master bedroom in this one...it's right inside the front door. That back yard was on the same playing field as the 1st one with my sweet wonderful husband...the other problem is there's a major road behind the house...there's a privacy fence, and a big ditch between, but you can still hear the cars, and such...oh it's a 3 br 2 bath 1380 sq ft. The house was painted really cute, granted some of that cute we'd want to change...for instance the main bathroom has electric blue walls, and an electric blue and neon green shower curtain...the daughters room is HOT PINK totally....well more a barbie pink I guess...really cute if we had a girl...but since it's just us, and neither of us are that fond of pink....

We are leaning more towards the 1st of the 2 mentioned here...but we want to see the other one before we settle on it, and try to decide on what to actually offer on the house...

Also in the news...some of my peoples are coming up this week!!! YAY!!! 4 days till I get to see 3 of them...then the next weekend we'll be in Funroe (for a baby shower I'm co-hosting)...then the next weekend 3 more of my peoples will be up here...It'll be fun to have 3 weeks in a row of friends...granted that's going to put a little more of a constraint on "closing" and moving...not that we'd close on a weekend, but it means more than likely the next weekend we'll be moving possibly...

And not long after that the summer's over...how sad... Oh well...I'm enjoying each moment, and not worrying about how quickly it's ending!

Well better get to work...well...the "fun day activity" starts in 7 minutes, so I'm gonna go to that!
Ta-ta for now!