I am behind at updating (again, blah). However, I am blaming this on my ridiculous online class that I need to take to transfer my provisional Arizona teaching license to a permanent licenses and on my mom's visit :)
After a ridiculously long week last week (I graded a lot, had parent teacher conferences and was voted to get pied in the face at the homecoming carnival at school), Rob and I headed to Vegas! My dad was there with his friends for a long weekend and so we zipped right on over (it was about a 6 hour drive) to spend time with him. Brian (my favorite San Diego cousin) met up with us as well. They both introduced us to the Bellagio breakfast buffet (despite my reputation for not getting my moneys worth at buffets!) and the fantastic game of craps. It was one of my top two life dreams to be the dice roller on fire for people who bet exorbitant amounts of money and tip me very nicely when they win even more. (The other life dream is to draw arrows on the tv screen during the football games.) My dream didn't quite come true, but I was an alright roller and Rob and I managed to leave Vegas with $50 we didn't have when we got there, which was a nice situation. I would say we successfully viva-ed Las Vegas.
Another thing that happened last week: the first house we had a bid on (it was on Zircon and there were pictures posted earlier) went into foreclosure. We had a bid on it as a short sale, so this was not a good thing for us. A lot of investors scoop up foreclosures with their cash and leave us homeless/still living in the apartment. So that house is gone. But it was a stupid house anyway. Total junk. Trust me, it's probably crumbled into dust by now it was so junky.
As I mentioned earlier, my mom is here! She came in late Tuesday night and is staying through early Sunday morning. Yesterday we went on yet another house hunting escapade with Ed, our realtor. We walked through five new houses...four foreclosures and one regular sale. There was one foreclosure that had a really fantastic layout, but was a hot mess otherwise. The carpet was so stained it would need to be replaced entirely and the walls needed cleaned and painted big time. It would have been a big investment financially and also would take a lot of time for us to get it move in ready. The other foreclosures were not so great...weird floorplans and front doors on the side of the house and linoleum, not stone tile floors, for example. The regular sale property was actually very nice. It had been purchased in March by what we assume to be an investor that was now flipping it. It was clean and kind of cute, but I just didn't fall in love with it. Plus, after looking at this house, we walked through the second house that we have a bid on (it is also a short sale) and I became ridiculously attached to it. It's probably the most amazing house ever, with a huge kitchen and gorgeous patio that stretches around the entire side of the house. It is in the neighborhood that initially attracted us to the area, and is closer to both of our jobs. Unfortunately, because it is a short sale, it isn't a guarantee, but I'm not sure I'm ready to put bids on other houses. I would keep wishing I had this house! (All the pictures are posted in the other blog post, just because it is easier. Hope you like it as much as we do!)
Today we went shopping at a wonderful lil outlet mall and wandered through Ikea. We also made amazing homemade granola bars with orange flavored cranberries and chocolate chips mixed in. Mmmmm no high fructose corn syrup deliciousness. We are planning on flying around the Valley on Saturday in the airplane Rob can rent for crazy cheap and will hopefully have some new pictures soon.
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