Weekend Wrap Up

We packed A LOT into this weekend.

Friday Addie and I spent the day with my mom. My little brother was kind enough to put my winter tires on for me (which it looks like I'm REALLY going to need this winter) so while he was doing that, us girls went where else... shopping. We went to Toys R Us and my mom got a few toys for her friends kids, she got us our umbrella stroller for Florida, and I got Addie a bundle me for her car seat. If you don't have one, get one. It is so much easier to snuggle her into that than trying to fight to get her coat on and then strap her in while she's all bulky. Addison clearly loves her little baby nest since she now falls asleep as soon as she warms up in there. In the afternoon, I left Addie with my parents while I did a little Christmas shopping. Ryan and I are almost done our shopping, and I am excited to finally finish it this week!

Saturday we went with my parents to Drysdales Christmas Tree Farm. First we went to see Santa. They have this entire little cottage set up so that when you walk in, it's like walking into Santa's house in the North Pole. Very cute. But the best part is that you can take your own pictures for free! You just give Santa your kid and start snapping away. Addie did much better with this Santa than the mall Santa and although she still didn't give us a smile, it was very cute the way she was watching him so intently. Then we went on a sleigh ride with these beautiful horses through the tree farm, and Addie really enjoyed watching everyone on the sleigh and seeing the horses moving. After the sleigh ride we got some hot apple cider, and then went off to the gift shop. I found the perfect Baby's First Christmas ornament there. It's a glass ball, and it is open on one side with a yellow glass duckling right in the middle. On the top it's etched in the glass ball to say Baby's First Christmas. Considering Addison's love of ducks, it couldn't be more perfect.

Next we left Addison with her grandparents and went to look at some houses. It is really handy having Ryan's dad as our real estate agent. He knows exactly what we're looking for. This time of year there isn't much on the market in our price range, so when we saw this house that was a little below our budget and had everything we were looking for, we jumped on it.

Sunday Ryan's dad called the listing agents office to get some more info on the house since it had only been on the market for like 4 days. The office said that there had been 10 showings on Saturday, it was booked up all of Sunday and there was already an offer on the table. The sellers had decided to wait until 5pm Sunday to review all offers. So Ryan's dad put our offer together, we even offered them $3,000 more than their asking price, and we waited.

Unfortunately, there had been 4 offers altogether by Sunday at 5pm and when ours was considered, it sounded like we bid the highest amount, but we lost it due to our condition that we have until the end of March to close. The couple wanted to sell immediately. Because of the multiple offers, we never even got a chance to negotiate.

Ryan and I were pretty disappointed, especially since we have been looking for months and this was the first house that we both loved. It really had everything on our need list, and just about everything on our want list too. A little discouraging, but at least we've now been through the process and know it's not that scary, and we have faith that God will find us a home when the time is right. So for now we just keep looking. We know our house is out there somewhere.