Our Drama and BIG NEWS...

Rich and I put an offer on a short sale (we call it house #1) at the end of October. That particular short sale could only look at one offer at a time and we were in the first place spot with a really strong offer so we were in a great place. We loved the house and thought the short sale would maybe take a month. We were WAY wrong. 3 months later, Rich was looking at houses online and saw a house (house #2)in the same town home community and we thought it was really cute so we called Rachael (our Realtor). Rachael took us over to walk through the house and we loved it. It was so cute and a different layout the house #1. While we were at house #2 Rachael said there is another house (house #3) 2 doors down that she wanted to show us. We walked over to the house and we really liked it. So we decided to put offers on both #2 and #3 so we had a total of 3 offers on the table, then we waited. House #3 got back to us pretty quickly, but we liked house #2 better so we were hesitant to just accept #3. #2 was taking forever so we just decided to go with #3, pulling our first place spot in house #1 and pulling out offer from house #2. We thought we had a house for about a day and a half, then they emailed us and said that they didn't mean to accept our offer, they thought our offer was almost 10 grand more than it really was. Neither of us had signed any documents so legally they didn't do anything wrong but we were devastated. House #2 went under contract with someone else and we lost our first place spot in #1 that we had been waiting for for 3 months. It was one of the hardest days ever. We counter offered with 3 and we went to go look at another house (house #4) in the same community as the others. We LOVED this house except for the fact that the previous owners had painted everything green. I mean EVERYTHING...ceilings walls and baseboards. It was a little ridiculous, but it was great with everything else. it was bigger than the others and had a walkout basement. So we put an offer on that house too. They quickly countered with barley less than the asking price so we countered with barley more than our first offer. we didn't hear from them for over a week. Meanwhile the people that went under contract with house #2 ended up backing out so we put our offer back on #2 and got the house! We didn't drop our offer on house #4 right away. We loved house #2. We actually were planning on moving in, we showed our families and everything and then house #4 accepted our offer...it was 10 grand less than #2 and it was bigger and had the walk out basement and a balcony in the back of the house. The only downfall was the paint but for 10 grand I think we'll manage to paint. So the bottom line is WE HAVE A HOUSE! We are so happy! We will be moving in soon and we couldn't be happier. We really feel like this all happened for a reason and we are so thankful that we got our favorite house. It is an adorable 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bathroom 2400 square feet with an unfinished basement.


I will post more pictures soon...!

Go away winter...

I love the snow and the cold from around November 25th until about December 30th. Then I am over it. I can't wait to be in this type of weather again wearing some flip flops and chillin. Only 5 more months or so...I think I can do it!!!

Haiti Earthquake

Hey guys you probably know about what happened in Haiti. So many of their homes and buildings were destroyed and a lot of people are injured and dead, if you go to www.redcross.org you can donate money to help with disaster relief in Haiti. I am sure any amount helps and it is super easy to do.

This is an Aeriel view of Haiti. It is so sad...

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Our Caribbean Cruise

As many of you know Rich and I went on a cruise to Grand Turk, Nassau, Puerto Rico and St. Thomas. I love traveling, especially to warm places and I wish I could do it more often.
Our first stop was Nassau. We have been there before, we stayed in the Atlantis resort which was a blast and the Island was so beautiful. We love it there. Our Second stop was St. Thomas. No pictures that I took could even capture how gorgeous this place was, and it was blazing hot. I got a fabulous knock-off Jimmy Choo purse there. We LOVED it. Our third and favorite stop was puerto rico. It rained on us the whole time but it was so much fun. We went to El Morro which is fort built in the 1500's. It was amazing to see all of the history there and in old San Juan. Our fourth stop was Grand Turk. It was way fun there, it was very hot and sunny and the beach was gorgeous.
I am so glad Rich and I went on this vacation. I had never been on a cruise before and it was one of our funnest trips ever. Everyone needs to go on a cruise!! Heres some of our pictures...
Nassau, Bahamas


St. Thomas


Puerto Rico


Grand Turk