Summer Rain AND All It Brings

Thursday, 31 July 2008 23:43 by sabrina

So I'm not sure if it's summer yet because today it was about 60 degrees and raining!

But what a better time to wipe away the cobwebs from my blog huh?

Apartment Lease

When I talked to the leasing manager a few weeks ago to try to get out of my lease she pretty much said that someone had to die. So I began pondering, but alas there were no volunteers and apparently pets don't count. I was pretty willing to kill a goldfish or reenact the water frog incident at my wedding. hehe BUT the good news is that she allowed me to change our lease date from December to October which was a blessing! BECAUSE...

House!

We're buying a house! Yup and if you couldn't tell I'm pretty excited about it. We weren't really planning on buying anything, but we called up our realtor and he took us out one day and then whala - house. He showed us about a dozen houses in our price range and they were all so tiny that we were thinking that we would just rent for a few years and then try again, but the very last house he showed us was seriously a diamond in the rough. It was WAY out of the league of any of the other houses we had seen and so we pretty much jumped on the chance, well, but of course we attempted to bluff our way into the offer. :) We put in a really low offer the next day at like 6pm and then about 9:45pm our agent called us and said that they countered, but it was still such a really good deal that we took it. So we bought a house at 9:45 at night - how crazy is that?

The story behind our amazing deal is this: The owner is also the agent for the house and she was attempting to "flip it" - like they do on T.V. except for her contractor took way longer than she expected and she couldn't afford the payments anymore. So just as she was about to go into foreclosure, she sold another house and paid it off and then was basically just trying to get rid of it, so we took full advantage of that. The house was built in 1982, but it's fully remodeled and there are just a few little details that we'll have to finish up after we move in and I guess the biggest thing is that the yard needs to be landscaped. So now we're just finishing up all the paperwork for the escrow process.

Our house closes on August 28th...yup the same week our baby is due! Yes, it'll be craziness, but fun and exciting craziness! Plus both our moms are coming to help out with the baby and with the move, so that should make it way easier on us! And Luke gets 4 weeks off (paid)! Yeay, for awesome Microsoft paternity leave! I can't wait for that, I love hanging out with my husband! I'm not sure if he's AS excited as I am, but I think he's looking forward to it too. hehe

Here are a few pictures of the inside of our house:

As you can tell Alyssa's favorite part of the house is the pantry. :) Notice her bobo chin...she got that while planing with the kitchen cupboards here at our apartment.

And yes, that's my mom and cousin. My cousin, Camila, stayed with us for 11 days and my mom and dad came for 2 weekends in a row, so we were glad it worked out that the inspection on the house was during a time when they were all in town because it was fun to be able to show them our house. For more pictures of our house see our smugmug pages:

http://foustfamily.smugmug.com/gallery/5497865_8y6jK#336303748_bMu62

http://foustfamily.smugmug.com/gallery/5451911_kxAMa#333293426_8hzDz

Aquarium

And speaking of my cousin's visit. While she was here we took Alyssa to the Seattle Aquarium. Alyssa thought it was "okay." She did have fun watching the sea otters and the yellow fish and touching the star fish. Here are some pictures of our trip: