luxe chandelier

Friday night we went to South Mountain to watch the sunset and it was gorgeous being able to see Phoenix all at once. While on top of the mountain, I wondered how many people…

won the lottery?
got married?
just gave birth?
died peacefully?
etc…

Tyler got on his knees and did a fake proposal. Who ever does that!? I tried getting him up to stop gaining attention for something that wasn’t real and I didn’t need people to start congratulating us.  

So beautiful… you’ve got to come visit Phoenix!

More photos from South Mountain

The Backyard

We got the house!!!!

Yesterday I received an e-mail from my Grandma and I was in the middle of typing an e-mail back to her explaining about our house search and I saw I had an e-mail from my Mom saying we got the house!!

BUT of course there was something else. Our realtor told us a new house just came on the market for 20k less than what we offered and it was bigger and on a cul-de-sac. My dad went over to check the house to see if he thought we would like it. It was nice but there were no appliances which we would have to get and the master bath was smaller. The house that is soon ours already has everything!

I am hoping we can close at least a week before our apartment lease is up (mid-July) so we have time to move in. The bank seems like they want to close as soon as possible too so that’s a good thing.

I can’t wait to start all these home projects – I have so many ideas!

Thank you all for crossing your fingers, limbs, everything else for us! :)

After deciding to move back in with my parents for a few months so we’re not rushed in our house search, our realtor e-mailed us saying that the house we originally put an offer in last month is available now. Apparently the buyer that outbid us backed out. I’m really hoping that no one else knows that the house is back on the market since the websites say it has been sold. The nice thing is that our realtor’s wife is the listing agent for that house.

We’re really hoping we get this 4 bedroom cozy house that has a nice view of the mountains and a nice yard for our “future pool” someday. Tyler and I agreed that if we don’t get this house then we’ll proceed with plans to move back in with my parents for a few months. I’m anxiously checking my e-mails and iPhone to see if our realtor e-mailed me. It’s driving me crazy because I’m already thinking of what color to paint the walls and where to put this and that. At the same time I’m trying not to think about it or think we’ll get it because I have a theory that if I think I won’t get it… then I’ll actually get it!

Keep your fingers crossed for us!