December 2008

I had my Bachlorette Party(weekend) in Girdwood, AK. Some of my favorite girls and I went to Girdwood and stayed in an awesome Condo! (Thank you Angie) We relaxed and cooked the first night, relaxed more the next morning and then decorated for the dinner party. Kim had the most awesome decorations and dinnefr set-up with a Sex and The City Theme! It could not have been better. Plus the chinese food was very tasty! We ended the night out at the interesting bars with the very interesting crowds! Then finished off with the hot tub. Really Really could not have been better!!

We had our first Christmas in our house...we didn't take any photo's until everyone had left and we were cuddling on the couch.

Ahhh it is December?!?!?

I had a rough realization today....IT IS DECEMBER!!!!! We are getting married next month!!! AHHHHHHHH I have not been to the gym in over two months, needless to say I am still the same size and was hoping to drop around 10-15lbs. Crazy month here we come! Also there are so many projects that need to be finished, things that need to be ordered...and probably a ton more things I am forgetting!! I am attempting a list:

1. All flowers

Thanksgiving at our house....

Sure why not? We just moved in and havent finished unpacking, but I would love too! lol! I think I may be crazy but I am really excited!! Thanksgiving at our new house with our combined families for the first time!!

Sad and Happy!!

We get to move in!!!!!! But that means grandma and pa are gone to OR. :( I will post before pics here soon...they are slightly scary...and I am thinking "what have we gotten ourselves into???"

Living with the FIL

I am so very fortunate that my future in laws ROCK! Since we did not expect my place to sell so quickly we had not set up to close until mid November on our house...to give us time to sell...lol! Anyway, Warren's parents graciously have let us stay with them until we can move into our house, which will still be occupied for about two weeks after we close;? Oh well...it is comfortable and I do not have to cook! It is like a mini vacation...kind of nice:) However, our living space is less than desirable due to trying to piling all of our stuff into their basement where our bedroom is...

Mother of the bride dress

My mom works on the north slope oil fields. She works a four and two schedule. For all who are not familiar with this common slang of oil field schedule...this means she works four weeks on and then has two weeks off. They have schedules like this since you have to fly in and out of the North Slope. So while she was home we went shopping for her dress...she has lost a lot of weight and is looking amazing!!! Here is her dress...I will post pictures of her at our first fitting:)

ahhh selling

OK so I went over all the offers and one was over full price. So I took accepted that one. Well, everything was going great! The inspection had come back and there was NOTHING wrong. My agent said it was the cleanest inspection she had EVER seen. Not one thing mentioned! A day later my buyer backs out?!?! What? He said he wasn't comfortable with the crime rate in the area...uh you probably should have checked that prior to going into contact and paying for an inspection? Idiot!

Luckily the other couple with the full price offer had not found anything and was still very interested! So we let them know our other buyer fell through and gave them the chance to place another offer. They did plus had lower our input of closing cost. woo hoo! Even better! Also I have to have it said that we listed my place way above what we should have because we were expecting to have to bargain the price back and forth...I NEVER EXPECTED ANYONE TO OFFER A FULL PRICE! I bough the place about 10k under the appraised price at that time. I have put about 5k into the place, however considering the comps for the area we are sitting on about 15k of equity. Yet, Warren thought my upgrades made it the best property in the area and insisted we list it above the recommended price by our agent, So we did...So we are very very excited to be getting A LOT of extra $$ out of the condo that can be used for the wedding! YAY! OK back on track, so everything is going great and the appraiser pulled comp from other areas in relatively close proximity due to mine being the nicest he had ever seen in the area:) Now we are due to close on/or before the 30th of this month!! Woo Hoo huge house here we come!!! oh yeah and then we can get back to wedding stuff since all of our stuff is packed right now!