Crazy Times

This past week has been so crazy!! Not only are Rene and I busy with the house and trying to get things ready, a guy I work with asked me to make a cake for his daughters birthday. I was a little apprehensive because I've never had to make a cake... for money. I was so worried that it wouldn't come out the best. I wanted it to be perfect more so than any other time. And to top it off, I wanted to use fondant and I had no experience with it whatsoever!! I was reading up on it and found out that rolled butter cream is easier to work with and tastes a little better so I decided to try it out.

Now, because I'm a little bit of an overachiever I decided to make 2 cakes. A princess cake where the bottom of the dress is the actual cake and then an additional cake for the majority of the 'party' to enjoy. My concept for it all was way over the top and I had to simplify it a bit. For a first attempt, my cakes didn't come out too bad.

3rd Times a Charm :)

Yesterday, Rene and I went house hunting again and the day was pretty productive. We increased our searching area and looked at a ton more homes. There were two homes we liked. One was a little smaller but absolutely beautiful!! It had laminate floors, a beautiful kitchen, and these fancy shmancy European sinks. The second one was larger, not as fancy, but had a great backyard, island, new carpets, ceramic tile floors, and 2 pantries!! :)

Both homes were found pretty early in the day but Rene really wanted to look at all the houses to ensure there was nothing better. When we got back to our realtor's office we discovered both homes we liked had offers on them so our realtor suggested we put in a double offer... and that's what we did. We were so worried that we were going to get out bid, again. So this is how great our realtor is, he only gave the sellers 2hrs to respond!!!! Isn't that great?!! Within the hour, both sellers had accepted our bids (only 10 mins apart) and we were in quite the predicament. We were going back and forth on the homes and even after we selected one, we sat there pondering if it was the right choice.

So which one did we choose???? The second one!! Did you catch that??!! We chose the larger of the two with the fabulous backyard, 2 pantries and island. :) Here are some pics...

The outside of the house, and our car :)

The emance, beautiful kitchen (counter tops to be replaced by seller)

The formal living room with fireplace

Upstairs, there's a huge open loft... perfect for playing :)

Master bath has a garden tub, soon to be Whirlpool tub, and seperate shower

The backyard, half of it... We have the lake on one side and the woods on the other. It's gorgeous!!

Going nowhere fast

So, last week Rene and I found a home we absolutely loved and put in an offer. We soon found out there was another offer on the table so we had to figure out how much we were going to bid and everything. Well, both offers were sent into the bank at the same time (did I mention it was a foreclosure??). Anyways, about 31 hours later (who's counting?) we find out a third offer was slipped in and they out bid us by a 'huge margin.' :( I was a little depressed, but at least we had a back up, right? Wrong!!! Our back up had multiple offers being thrown in so we knew it wasn't something we wanted to get into. So after looking at about 40 homes in the area we like, we are looking again. This time, we are expanding our search area as there aren't many homes left. Time's a-tickin' away... We'll see what happens after this next search.

But some good news among all of this... The earnest money we had given CP Morgan has been returned!!!!!!!! We received a check in the mail the other day! :) It's such a blessing to get it back, Rene and I weren't looking forward to losing all that money. But now we can put that towards a new home, once we find one.