House hunting has begun.

Jordan and I met with a lender this week and got preapproved for our first home!!  We had decided to wait until our credit cards were paid off before going into a lender to help improve our credit scores.  It worked!!  We both had great scores and easily qualify for a new home. 

We then called our real estate agent to let him know we were prequalified and that we wanted to go look at two homes.  One that I really liked and one that Jordan liked.  Unfortunately the house I wanted to see sold before we could go look at it.  We did however go look at the home Jordan liked.  It was an interesting experience.  The homeowners and their six little kids were home.  The house was how can I saw this nicely.....an absolute mess.  It was hard to look past all the junk to actually see the home.  We liked the main level of the home which had a huge living room, a guest suite with attached bathroom, a really nice kitchen and dining room with a small den off of the kitchen.  All the other bedrooms were upstairs.  They had converted the loft into a bedroom which we would convert back to a large loft.  The master bedroom was nice but the bathroom had no counter space and that is one thing that really bothers me in our apartment.  We would have to replace all the carpet and repaint everything.  Our real estate agent told us to think about things and to keep an open mind.  It was only the first home was saw.  

There is so much to think about and consider when buying a home.  We went to look at the home that we absolutely loved again last week and it is still our top pick.  It is however at the top of our price range because it would be a newly built home. We just aren't sure if it building a home is what we want to do.  In the meantime we are going to keep praying and keep looking.     

I also spent the week baking!  Jordan and I are trying to eat healthier meals at home and slowly convert to an organic diet.  I decided that I would make freezer meals for those days when I don't feel like spending a lot of time in the kitchen.  I researched recipes online and then went to whole foods and trader joes to help with our organic goal.  I ended up making:

 3 lasagnas made with organic spaghetti sauce and no hormone, free range hamburger meat.

3 spaghetti casseroles with whole wheat pasta, organic spaghetti sauce, and no hormone, free range hamburger meat.

2 cranberry orange chicken dinners with no hormone, free range chicken.

and

12 bean and beef burritos with no hormone, free range hamburger meat and homemade re fried beans for Jordan who randomly gets hungry between meals. 

I still want to make a few more things but we started to run out of room in our freezer.  All the meals looked and smelled amazing! It was well worth the time.