Another fantastic weekend getaway with awesome friends, three days of surf,  yummy food, hours of dominos and beachfront fireworks.  The sun joined us too – we could even see Tatoosh Island!

Cape Flattery

One clock down.  Microwave, lawn mower, curtains, BBQ, patio furniture, couch, dining table, dining chairs, bed, etc., etc. to go!

There’s been a lot going on the last couple of months.  Topsy turvy first *blech* house adventure.  Easy peasy “our house” adventure.  Finding renters worried me to death.  We found some though, a great pair that we’re really excited about.  We’ve been painting, cleaning, packing, cleaning, fixing things (we have a doorbell, people!), more cleaning and now that all that hard work and worry is just about to come to an end; I’m not really sure what I’m going to do with myself!

Perhaps, we do what all grown-ups do when they’re happy. We do the dance of joy!  And hope this thirteen year old pre-pubescent thing doesn’t stick around too long.

Anyway, the surf was awesome.  We only made it out once but we went to Short Sands – a place Matty showed us a couple of years ago.  It’s a quick quarter-mile or so hike through a grove of old growth forest that leads to a protected cove where the waves are always nice (at least the two times we’ve gone!).  We surfed until we were almost too tired to hike out and were completely satisfied despite the downpour of rain the rest of the weekend.  Back in Portland, Matty and Alison took us to Mississippi Street where there’s this really cool salt shop with giant peonies.  Like the size of your head, giant.  We loved them and want them for our wedding.  I hope they’re in bloom mid-April but it may be a bit too early.  Matty and Alison we might have a job for you in transporting giant peonies!

Evidently, it's hard for me to take normal pictures...

HERE are many pictures of our new house!  The first fifteen are from the listing.  The rest are ones I snapped during the inspection.  There are a lot of pictures of random stuff I liked and want to find (love that rug in the living room!) so just ignore those.  I have given myself permission to share with you all because so far, everything has gone super smooth – just like it’s supposed to.

We had our first sign of “this is our house” when the seller’s agent called us to tell us he was expecting another offer on the house.  Kevin was really nervous that we would outbid ourselves so we were just going to take our chances.  If it’s “our house” it will all work out and the other offer won’t be as good.  Well, it was just as good.  In fact, it was slightly better.  But we and our agent had made an impression on the sellers agent so he told us what we needed to do to get the house if we really wanted it.  All we had to do was match it and they’d pick us.  He didn’t have to do that.  They could have very easily just taken the other offer and called it a day.  But he wanted to work with us.

Our second “this is our house” moment was the immaculate inspection.  Compared to that *blech* other place, it was a difference of night and day.  We feel quite lucky how much thought and care was put into the re-model.  There’s practically nothing we need to do to move in…except buy a lot of furniture.*

Now all that’s left is the appraisal and financing.  Fingers crossed, we’ll be moving June 26!

* As you’re looking at these pictures, note how adorable the furnishing is.  It will not look like this when we move in.  In fact, it probably won’t look like that for many many years…