Crazy Day

Well we went house hunting today. It was a major success. Both of the houses were absolutely fabulous! We looked at a house on Kinloch just off Beech and 5mile that was so incredibly adorable! First of all the outside was cute....it has a fake wishing well on the lawn which kevin loved cuz we can be like "which house is it? It's the one with the wishing well" lol

When we went inside the rooms were great. It's kinda set up like my cousin Angie's home. The dining room (painted mauve with a decorative chair rail) is to the left and the living room (painted light blue) to the right. Go straight ahead and it's a hall with the bathroom to the right and the up-stairs to the left and then 2 back rooms (1 painted dark blue and one painted lime green). The kitchen is off the dining room and there's a small hall leading from the kitchen to the main hall (so it's kinda like a circle...so you can go from the kitchen to the bathroom w/o going thru the other rooms). The back door is off the kitchen and that's also where the stairs leading down are. The basement is finished and there's a dry bar in the back right corner ...it's so cute!!!! Then you go thru the door and there's the HUGE laundry room and workbench area and storage.

There's no bathroom in the basement but there's an area we could probably put one later on. We didn't get to really see the yard cuz they have a dog, but it's a nice size with a 1 car garage and room for a garden. The only thing that kinda worries me is moving the furniture in cuz the front entrance is oddly shaped and cornered instead of straight up.

The other house was about a mile away on Centralia off 6mile and Beech Daly. It's a corner home. really pretty. Almost the same layout as the 1st but reversed...when you walk in the dining room is on the right and the living room on the left...hall straight ahead with bathroom on right and up-stairs on the left and 2 back rooms...with a door to the backyard in the room on the right...kitchen off dining room and off living room ... finished basement with full bath down there...but basement is in a U shape with no real flow and no work area like the other. Plus the paint was all apt. beige thru-out the house.

There's a door on the side of the house as well as the one in the back room. The yard is huge but it needs lots of work. It needs to be levelled and resodded and the fence needs to be redone. The garage is nice. No driveway (like my mom's) but there's the parking all along the corner. The house itself is red brick.

The one on Kinloch is about 13K cheeper than the one on Centralia. That means around $70 less a month. It's a tiny factor, but it is one. Both houses have everything we're looking for. EVERYTHING! I think we're both leaning towards the one on Kinloch tho. It's got tons of personality and needs much less work to make it ours.

He's gonna be home in a few, we're gonna talk about it some more. Our realtor wants us to make an offer tomorrow so we don't lose it. That's why we're gonna talk about it. Cuz we also have to come up with $1000 good faith money once they accept our offer. It's a little scary, but it's so exciting! I'm scared to move away from this area cuz it's what i know so well, but it makes sense cuz it's only about 5 minutes from the highway and Kevin can drive surface streets to work and be there in about 15 instead of the 45 it takes him now.

The other thing today was i tried to buy tickets for the trip to New Orleans and got Kevin's okay but when i went to buy mine the cc was refused...my mom had loaned me hers but she didn't have enough for the limit. So i was all stressed and didn't want to ask my sister for her cc again to buy mine too (even tho we're gonna pay her back there) and she offered anyway so i got the ticket and it's all good and we're going down may 15th and leaving may 19th YAY!!! And we're going to see the midnight showing of Star Wars!!!! I'm so excited!!! We're gonna have so much fun!!!