We did it

I just signed our counter offer acceptance! My salary is going to our mortgage and I am so freaking excited and completely overwhelmed. I have already downed two glasses of wine and making my way to the 3rd. I just found out that we will sign the papers on 10/22. Our first anniversary date. We take ownership of the house on 10/30.
Inspection is on Saturday. We are fairly confident all will go well.

emotional highs and lows of buying a house

after pouring over the disclosure notices, we have decided to hold off on this one particular house. It sucks. It was such a cute little place. However, it being the same age as my grandmother and like my grandmother, the house is not so stable..this is not the type of project we need to take on as first time home buyers. So we are back to square 2. After talking with my MIL who is also our realtor, I shared with her my sadness of letting this house go. She understood but offered such great insight that made me appreciate her more and more. She said to me that her desire is to put us in a home where she can look my parents in the eye and with out a doubt say that we have a home that she feels and knows that we are safe and secure in. This particular home she could not. I respect that view point. Especially as we are embarking on Eli's career change. Which means, I will be without him more then I am with him as he begins his new career as a commerical pilot.
On Thursday, during her broker tour, she came across this cute thing of a house. She was so excited to tell me about it. When I got home Thursday eveing, she showed me the listing. I instantly fell in love. We called eli who was in Vegas to tell him about it. He was so excited to hear my excitement that he gave me full permission to write an offer if I was still in love with it after I go and see it on Saturday. Now because it is a new listing it is safe to say that we can wait for Eli to get home on Monday to view the house himself before we make any plans on offers. ahhh, the saga continues.....

No news is good news

Just another Thursday and not much to report. Definitely been a quiet week and i think I have mostly tried to get caught up on sleep. I am definitely not 24, when I used to rage all weekend long and bounce right back :( My body lives for the quiet weekends now :)
This afternoon we are meeting with our real estate agent to talk about our home search. She got us started on receving email updates on various places based upon our desires and we also met with a mortgage broker. Which was very helpful and very depressing :( We thought we could afford something more but unfortunately we cannot. We want to maintain the standard of living that we already have and be able to save money for trips and babies :) So I am hoping when we tell her what we are actually going to be able to afford, I am hoping that we can find something in that price range. The real estate in CA is outragous! I can't see us downgrading to a one bed one bath when we are renting a two bed two bath. hmmph!
Tonight we are headed to Angels and A's game. E is a huge A's fan so of course like the good wife I am, I jumped on that bandwagon! So the two of us and a co-worker of his and his girlfriend are meeting us here and we are heading to the game. E is going tomorrow night and then the two of us are going saturday night with more people! E and I were high fiving last night that we actually are hanging out with people that could become our FRIENDS and they actually live in OC. Most of the people we know live in LA is it is rough drive and so you have to really plan out what you are doing if either of us want to make the drive.

Good weekend ahead, I can just feel it!