Offer Accepted and Other Things

We officially accepted a fair offer on the house, last night. Now let the fun begin! I'm so excited, nervous, and have only had two panic attacks so that's good! Ha! Honestly, though, I can't believe we're going to be homeowners. We, hopefully, will be closing on the house in January of 2011 and probably won't move in until sometime in February!

This weekend we we've all been sick. Blech. It's not fun, especially, when I need to get some shopping done and sent out this week for our family back at home. We pushed through, though, and got most of the stuff done, wrapped and sent out. Go us! We even got to do some wrapping done for Logan's stuff, but I'm still feeling blech and so is everyone else. Poor Logan's got some teeth coming through on top of not feeling well!

We've also had some pretty cold weather, here in the Memphis area, and I'm loving it! I've had a Starbuck's hot chocolate at least once everyday! I'm sure I've gained some major pounds in the last week but I love warm drinks and soups on a cold, fall (winter?) day! So that's why you see pretty pictures of warm drinks.

Hope you all had a great weekend! Here's to a great week ♥

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Wishin' and Hopin' and Prayin'!

That we get the house!

Honestly, though, I don't know if

it's going to happen.

Apparently there are games to be played!

Well, these games aren't fun and I'm not

a game player. At least these

kinds of games.

I wanted a smooth transaction

so that we could buy a house

and make it a home.

Chris is driving me nuts with his whole

"This is how the game is played"

expression. I don't like it!

So I'm wishing and hoping and praying

that something will change

with this game of negotiations

so that both parties can agree

and be happy!

Weekend Recap!

We've had a busy week since Thursday!

It started with Starry Nights at Shelby Farms Park on Thursday!

Their light show is soo cute!

If you live in the area I definitely recommend seeing it

if you've never been.

Friday was my 26th Birthday! Woo!

We had dinner at Coletta's, wish was good.

Then came home to have cupcakes from Gigi's Cupcakes.

They aren't Magnolia Bakery's cupcakes but they

were delish!

(I love me some cupcakes!)

Logan enjoying his cupcake!

My Jonathan Adler Nook cover! Love♥

Is it weird that I asked for a food processor?

I can't wait to use it!!

Saturday Logan had his pictures taken

At 8:20 in the AM! Yes early in the morning!

And he did wonderfully

Here's my favorite and this year's Xmas card.

After that we did some Christmas shopping.

Sunday (12-5) was a milestone day for Chris and I!

We made our first offer to buy our first house!

This is the one we've picked to hopefully,

if all goes well, call home. We're keeping our fingers crossed.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

I've got some blog reading to catch

 up on once we've done lunch and naps ♥

House Love!

Over the weekend, Chris and I saw four more houses that looked like potentials. We were going to go back to this house:

but decided that the cons were to great, even though, the sellers were going to address several of the issues we have. I haven't completely put it off, it's still a potential but as the week went on I started to give some thought to this house:

We went by it one night and as I pulled into the driveway I had that at home feeling! Since that night I've fallen in LOVE. Sure it needs to be remodeled and it's missing a tub and a fireplace but all of these things can be fixed with time! I'm in LOVE with this house. So we went back to see it on Sunday and my love for it has increased, especially, after meeting some of the neighbors!

However, we haven't stopped looking and we probably won't until we are signed, sealed, delivered on a house, preferably my LOVE house! We also saw this house:

This house had very few cons but it lacked that "I'm home feeling" and I can't believe I'm saying this because honestly all you'd have to do to this house throw up some paint and move in! It is a contender though!

This week we'll be taking a break from viewing houses because Chris' parents will be in town! Yay! We haven't had anyone visit us (except my mom) since we moved to TN. Logan will be thrilled to pieces to spend the weekend with them, as will we!

House Hunters!

After our first open house last weekend and viewing six houses today I think we can officially call ourselves house hunters! Even though we're really early on in the game of house searching & buying it's definitely an experience and you learn so much about what you want, what's realistic, and how the world of buying, selling, and becoming homeowners is all about. All of this house searching and viewing has re-ignited my old flame with HGTV & DIY Network too! We definitely want a house that's new but that we can work on and try our hand at home remodel (renovating) but nothing major!

So far I've fallen in major like with this house:

It's distorted for obvious reasons but you can still tell what it looks like!

I'm in LOVE with this one but there's some major cons:

Again distorted.

So far it's these two that we're definitely looking into but we're not stopping there! We're going to continue to look! Hopefully by early next year we'll have found a house that feels like home as soon as we walk through it!