First and foremost...
WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!
To recap: We made an offer last Saturday, then they counter-offered on Monday. We waited until Thursday to counter offer which gave them until 6pm Saturday to accept/counter/deny. I was shocked and amazed when I got an email from our Realtor on Friday afternoon with their counter-offer...then I read the email and went from shocked and amazed to jumping up and down excited. Seriously, I jumped up and down and did a little dance. That's right; in my cubicle. Don't judge me.
I assume you can gather from my happy dance that we accepted their counter-offer. If not, we did!
Our plans were to get out of town asap and head to Lexington, Kentucky but that changed once we found out that we needed to meet the Realtor and sign the purchase agreement. Not that we minded altering our plans at all, I mean we got the house after all!
After signing on a couple dotted lines we were on the road for Kentucky and so excited. I think we talked about the house for the first 2 hours at least. The details that we love, the improvements we hope to make, the meetings this week to secure financing, the flowers I want to plant, the garden Stephen wants to plant, paint colors...you get the idea, we talked about it a lot!
The drive to Lexington was farther than I thought but before hitting our hotel at 11pm we made a stop at Orange Leaf for some heaven in a cup frozen yogurt. It was delicious!
Saturday morning we were up fairly early for the rest of our trek to Eastern Kentucky for Brooke and Preston's wedding. It was so great to be able to see Brooke and her family.
Our friendship has grown so much since our meeting on a cruise years ago. Brooke is such a sweetheart and was a beautiful bride in every way. Here are some pictures of her big day:
Aside from seeing Brooke and he family, the highlight for me was the candy bar. A-M-A-ZING! Umm hello Sweet Tart jelly beans, nice to meet you! The chocolate fountain was delicious also, though I admit I was terrified of spilling melted chocolate all over my dress!
The newlywed couple is on their honeymoon cruise now and Stephen and I pray they have a great time and just enjoy relax in paradise! I know what a relief it was for me when the wedding and all the planning was over! Oh and Brooke, you better email or call me when you get back :)
After the wedding we hit the road back to Indiana. We had intentions on making it to church Sunday morning but I honestly never even heard the alarm go off. I think Stephen work up and decided trying to wake me was not worth the effort so he shut it off and went back to bed. We ended up sleeping in until 11 and it was wonderful! Aside from missing church, our Sunday routine was pretty normal. We started laundry and then got some lunch before driving around our soon to be town, North Manchester. It had rained a lot on Saturday and there were some minor floods everywhere. We drove through water over the road coming home Saturday night several times. I was able to snap a few pictures on Sunday during our drive:
Just to give you an idea, the top two pictures of of a field. That's right, it is a place where normally there is no water. Strange how it looks like a pond or lake! The third picture is just of a ditch full of water. I was amazed at how fast the water was moving, though you can't see that too well in the photo. I was trying to be positive about the floods and pointed out that some people instantly have water front property, so in my mind that greatly increased their property value with one big rain storm!
That was our weekend :) Hope you had a great one too!
