Anniversary, Wedding, Camping, House, etc.

We've had a busy last few weeks!

We ended up celebrating our 2nd Anniversary at Jake's Grill in Portland.

The following weekend we went and celebrated Mr. & Mrs. Bertsch's wedding at David Hill Winery! The weather was pretty yucky all morning and thought we'd be re-living our friend's June 2008 wedding where it poured rain all day. Crystal's mom who passed a few years back must have been watching over her because by the time guests were arriving for the wedding, there was beautiful blue skies! It was a bit chilly but was a wonderful wedding.

We then headed down to Winchester Bay on Friday morning and camped through Monday. We took my brother as his birthday gift. Our friend's Jeff & Katie, her brother DJ, and Jeremy & Kara also joined in. Everyone had brought their quads and my brother took his dirt bike - I just hung out at the campground and relaxed since I obviously can't ride. It was a nice weekend, the weather was really nice and sunny, it started raining during the night Sunday but all in all was a nice weekend!

We had the inspection done on the house in Idaho, all in all it went well, there were two things that appear to be minor that will need to be taken care of once we get there. Since it's bank owned there was no luck asking the back to fix the items. So as long as the appraisal has no issues which we should hear on at the beginning of the week.

Then Wednesday is my next doctor's appointment!

Thursday night I'm headed to California to see my brother Ro graduate high school! Jeremy can't go due to his work schedule at the end of the week.

I know I need to post some pics - which are all on my camera still...next time!

Home Sweet Home

So we heard back from the bank this afternoon! They accepted our offer. Below are some picture I took of the house. It's bank owned and we'll have the inspection done within a week or so and appraisal to follow, so I'm hoping those 2 go smoothly.

It's 4 Bedrooms, 3 bathrooms in Meridian

2,860 square feet

It also has a loft and bonus room -aka- Jeremy's man cave! ;)

There is also a big pantry in the kitchen, and tons of storage throughout the house. I couldn't believe that it has 2 linen closets too, a normal sized one and a huge one!

What a great day! And we're celebrating 2 wonderful years of marriage today too :)

Entry way

Entry way

Kitchen!

View of living room from kitchen area

Walk-in Closet in Master (this is only half of it) we can actually share an entire closet now, instead of me using the guest room closet too!

Master bedroom

Master bath

Jetted jacuzzi tub in master bathroom

Bonus room -aka- Jeremy's man cave! It's already pre-wired with speakers for surround sound!

House Hunting in Idaho

We were in Idaho last week on a house hunting trip. We saw close to 30 houses and have a list of our Top 5 houses. We placed an offer on one on Thursday, it's a bank owned house in Meridian, which is next to Boise. They countered back on Friday and we countered back to them then. Our realtor said the bank verbally accepted our offer but I'm not counting on anything until I see the acceptance in writing, but it's looking optimistic. Worst case scenario we have 4-5 other houses that we'd still strongly consider. I hate waiting, and with the weekend, it is making me wait longer! Oh well.

I'll update once they confirm we have a deal (and post pictures then). If we come to an agreement, Jeremy would have to go back next week or the beginning of the following week while the inspection is done. We saw a lot of short sales and homes that were bank owned or almost banked owned, and the home we placed an offer on was in pretty good condition compared to some of the ones we saw.

I'll update tomorrow once I have more information :)

BIG NEWS: Baby on the way!

Jeremy and I are expecting our first baby - due November 18th!

We're so excited! We've known since March, we had our first doctor's appointment at 8 weeks and had an ultrasound and everything was looking good and got to see the baby's heartbeat then. Our doctor suggested waiting until 12 weeks to tell everyone. We had our 12 week appointment on Thursday and got to hear the heartbeat and also had an ultrasound, which is above. Technology is quite amazing!

Overall, I've been feeling pretty good - I've only been sick a couple times and have been wearing a seaband which seems to be helping with the morning sickness.

So it looks like we'll definitely have visitors in Idaho! :)

We're off to Boise tomorrow to go house hunting this week, so hopefully we can find a house!

Boise

We went to Boise last weekend so I could check out the area. We basically drove around and checked out neighborhoods and ended up in a few with expensive homes!

All and all I like it! Not as green as Oregon but I'll take it compared to the extra sunshine they get.

Our house is still for sale - we did get an offer a week after it was for sale and countered back and the people said their offer was their best offer! Oh well! At least we have a buyout option after 90 days.

We are headed back to Boise next week to go house hunting! I'm pretty excited - we've got a huge list of houses to look at, so it'll be good to see the variety. When we bought our current home we found our house pretty quick so hopefully we can find another home :)

Have a nice weekend!