Our week

This has been a crazy and exciting week for us. 

It started with me sewing my first bag! 

I need a new church bag and loved the fabric so I found a pattern online and spent my day off of work sewing.  Unlike my amazing Mom, I am not as talented so I usually only sew with others who can help me if I get stuck.  I was a bit nervous sewing by myself but it ended up being a lot easier then I thought. The bag turned out A LOT bigger than I had planned but I figure once we have a baby it will fill up quickly.  

The next day we met with our real estate agent to look at a few homes.  We started looking at houses a few weeks ago but have had a hard time finding anything close to what we want and could afford.  

I found this foreclosed home online, it was a little further than we originally wanted to buy and we weren't looking at foreclosures at all but it was on a corner lot, across the street from the park and one story so we went to look at it not thinking much about it. 

We loved it! 

It is a three bedroom, two bathroom home with a living room, family room and two dens!  (We would use one for Jordan's office and the other as a playroom for our kids)  Tile floors, surround sound, maple cabinets in the kitchen and granite cabinets.  Being a foreclosure it has a few things we would need to fix and painting is a must! 

We put in an offer that day!!

We should hear back from the bank soon if our offer was accepted.  Its a stressful but very exciting process.  We may have just bought our first home!!!! 

This weekend ended up being a pretty usual Saturday for us.  I worked until noon and Jordan got up early to go hiking. After I got home we went to REI and bought some camping food and Nalgine water bottles that were on sale.

Then we decided to stop at DI and ended up finding this old school rocking chair for $10.00!  It is pretty comfortable and will go perfect in our nursery.  (I may end up painting it up but that's a DIY project for another day.)

We also picked up several books for really cheap.  Jordan and I laughed while we were buying our books at how many books we buy and read! 

 Saturday night Jordan and I went out to dinner and then to the park for a "city backyard birthday bash".  They had exhibits, star gazing, historic car and a BMX bike show.

They also had classic backyard games which were free to anyone who wanted to join in.  A three legged race, balloon toss and of course a pie eating contest!   

After the games they had a firework show. 

It was such a fun event and I was surprised at how few people were there. 

We have spent most of our nights after work this week with our real estate agent, filling out and signing a lot of paperwork.  It was really nice to be outside with our neighbors having a great time.