As promised, a somewhat timely blog post :) Shelly and Adam came out to visit and celebrate my birthday last week! It was a lil crazy, as Rob and I were both working during the week, but we went a ton of places and had a great time! I picked them up from the airport on Friday after school and we grilled pizza. Saturday was a full day of house hunting. We went through about 7 houses. Luckily, our realtor, Ed, was quite the eccentric lil charmer. He struggles a bit with names, but kept Shelly and "Eric" entertained and involved in the process of determining our favorite house. We wound up meeting with Ed briefly again on Sunday morning to sign papers to put an offer on a house. The house we put an offer on isn't exactly what we were looking at when we started looking...no worries though...it's better! It is just over 2,000 square feet, 2 stories and 3 bedroom/2.5 baths. Not exactly a lil starter house, but we love it and it is in our price range. There are plantation shutters which keep things very cool, a loft, an island in the kitchen, grass in the backyard that needs a lil bit of love/water, even a formal living room! Ridiculously wonderful. And one step closer to being ours! We found out on Wednesday that the listing agent accepted our offer and now we are just waiting on the bank to accept! It is a short sale, so we aren't certain how long it will take for the bank to accept, but we are the only offer that they are considering. Hooray for beating people with cash! (Prior to this offer, we had found and lost a lot of houses to investors with cash...most of the time we didn't even have time to put a bid on the house before the sale was pending to a cash bidder. It was very frustrating.) I am going to meet up with Ed at the house on Tuesday this week to take more pictures...we signed an "as is" addendum, so we want to make sure we have solid proof of how things are now. I am planning on posting pictures sometime Tuesday/Wednesday next week, so be sure to check back! Also, we will keep you all posted as we (hopefully) continue to hear news!
Okay, back to Sunday. After the paper signing process, we all headed to the Grand Canyon. We hiked a bit down into the Canyon and then along a trail that runs along the rim. Shelly was very worried about falling in (as you can see from her facial expressions in the pictures below!)
not getting too close!
I like this picture of the four of us a lot.
We headed up to Glendale for dinner at Margaritaville on my birthday and the crazy balloon man on stilts made me a giraffe balloon hat and made everyone in the restaurant shout happy birthday. So embarrassing, but a delicious strawberry dessert was also involved, which made up for it probably. Annnnd speaking of desserts....I think the highlight of Shelly and Adam's trip was Sprinkles (the cupcake bakery that originated in Beverly Hills and has a location in Scottsdale). They really are the most delicious (though expensive) cupcakes in the world. After heading to Sprinkles, we grilled chicken sausages for dinner, which were, in the words of our grill chef (Adam), an "epic failure." Rob was working a 12 hour shift that night and I had no real idea how to grill, so Adam took responsibility. Really there were some technical issues with the burners not working, and the sausages were pretty charred. Luckily, cupcakes saved the dinner :)
at dinner in Glendale. note the large balloon giraffe. :)
Shelly and Adam headed back to Strongsville on Thursday morning. It was great to have them out here and do some more exploring of Arizona! Rob and I are getting back into a regular routine now. We are heading over to a cookout party at another flight instructor's house tonight...I baked brownie chip cookies to bring this morning! I think we are also planning on shopping this afternoon...my birthday present from Rob :) Otherwise, it is a lot of working and crossing our fingers for an approval from the bank soon and also I really like to look through the Ikea catalogue and imagine where we should put our furniture in our hopefully new home! Stay tuned for pictures :) Miss and love you all, Sarah and Rob
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