Cake & Ice Creams

When we first started looking at houses, Kevin and I had it all figured out.  The market is crap right now.  Of course we can find a house with three plus bedrooms, one plus bath, a yard, a garage for our boards, a basement (preferably finished but hey, we’re not that picky).  Oh yeah, and we want to live by the lake, where it’s an easy commute with quick access to main roads.

Well…four months later, one very petite house down (see previous post), our search continues.  In Canada speak, our search has taken us to the Quebec of Seattle.  Who the hell has heard of Cedar Park?  Not us.  But ironically enough, it’s close to a lake and there is access to main roads….just not the lake or roads we originally had in mind.

What a compromise.  Do we stick to the city in a house we will probably grow out of sooner than later? Or uproot and grow into a beautiful home in Quebec?  Decisions, decisions.

Kevin and I have been house hunting for several months.  Some would say we are picky….we say we’re not in any hurry so we’re waiting for that perfect house.  Four months in I was beginning to believe that perfect house just didn’t exist for us (in our price range!).  Until…we found it!  What is supposed to be an exciting process turned into an emotional roller coaster right from the get go, which should have been our first sign.  But instead, we persevered until we got what we wanted and headed into the next phase – inspection.

The inspection wasn’t that bad really.  But there were quite a few unknowns on our end that we needed to know before committing to such a huge purchase.  Part of the crawl space wasn’t cleared out for us, so we needed to get into that, they weren’t sure about an oil tank (if one existed or not) or the sewer lines so we were going to have specialty inspectors in to check it out.  We didn’t even get to the negotiating phase.  We were just being courteous by telling them our initial findings and letting them know we were going to have additional inspections.  With that, they decided they didn’t want to deal with us.  They wanted to “roll the dice” and put the house back on the market.  Evidently hoping for buyers that don’t mind the unknowns.  It’s not really realistic to us, but maybe they’ll luck out.

Our wishful thinking, spiteful hope is that they won’t get any takers and they’ll have to come crawling back to us.  Then we’ll remind them why you should always be nice to people who want to buy something very expensive from you.  Karma’s a bitch.

Sadly and realistically though, Jay Z says it best.  On to the next one. We just hope the next one doesn’t take us four months to find…

Our first trip to Westport of the season left Kevin, Lauren and me happy campers. The water was oh so chilly but worth every frost bitten second. Let’s be honest, the real reason we go is the stop at DQ on the way home. Three of us, four Blizzards. Check!

I got Kevin an Indo Board for his birthday.  He thought it would be a great idea to try it out at 1am after drinking most of the evening.  I promise, I tried to advise him otherwise but there’s just no reasoning with the birthday boy.

What you are about to see is quite sad.  But the more you watch it, the funnier it gets.  Replay this puppy at least once – it’s totally worth it

Cupcakes, cupcakes and more cupcakes!  This is what my wedding diet has consisted of the last few weeks.

I’m not too sure that it’s working but….meh.  They’re delicious!  And nutritious?

At Cupcake Camp with KMJ, Jill and Anj. Eating cupcakes for cause - all to benefit Hope Heart Institute.

Cupcake tasting at Trophy!

To celebrate our -1 Wedding Anniversary (April 16!), Kevin and I flew to San Francisco for a quick, weekend getaway. We love San Francisco and had gone exactly two years ago so it was the perfect destination.

We were lucky with great spring weather so we were able to shop Union Square, Haight Ashbury and Hayes Valley happily, ride bikes across the Golden Gate Bridge into Sausalito (our butts hurt SO BAD after!) and hang out in Golden Gate Park.  We also had delicious food, especially from the Clift where we got to sit in the Worlds Largest Table Chair!

We had the best time despite the weekend flying by! I think we’ll try to make it to SF every couple of years for traditions sake – if I say it on the blog, we have to do it!! Below is a highlight of my favorite moments and a video Kevin put together on our bike ride.  Click HERE for all of our weekend pictures.

I have a print of a similar picture (that I got on my trip to SF with D!) so it was fun to replicate it!

On our bike ride to Sausalito!

World's Largest Table Chair!

My new bag that I'm in love with!

What you’d think would be the easiest part for us…we are actually kind of struggling.  There are a bunch of places we want to make it to eventually, listed below in no particular order, but nowhere that you’ll hear us say “we have to go to [insert awesome destination here] for our honeymoon!”

We need your help!  Participate in the survey below and help us decide! 

**Final selection will be based upon equal parts poll results and how far our frequent flyer miles will take us.** 

**Update 4/14/2010**

Looks like we’re going to Fiji! Next step, cash in those miles. Thanks to everyone that voted….and those that voted three times on different computers

Never thought I needed one. Or wanted one. Or would have one. But thanks BK for this ridiculously awesome find!

I used to think there was no such thing as too much college basketball…turns out, I was wrong!

Kevin and I went to Spokane for the first and second rounds of the NCAA basketball tournament.  We had purchased tickets a year ago with high hopes the Huskies would have an amazing season, make the tourney and be placed close to home in Spokane.  Well, that didn’t happen.  Even the Zags got placed in a different city!  UGH!  Disappointed, yes.  But we were still excited to take part in March Madness – the most wonderful time of the year!

In the first round there are eight teams per city.  Four games.  Four games pretty much back to back to back to back.  Four games back to back to back to back is too much basketball.  I didn’t think it possible.  But, when you’re at home watching basketball on tv all day, you can get up and do other things.  At home, during time outs you are entertained with other games and commercial breaks.  At the games, we were just sitting there.  When games are close there are a bajillion time outs and therefore a lot of sitting and waiting.  Luckily, I had a magazine in my bag.  And, truth be told, I even napped a little.

By end of day, I was SO OVER basketball.  Which was sad to me because I really do love this time of year.  We decided to sell our second round tickets.  I was a little torn because what if we missed a buzzer beater game?  (Which, turns out we did miss two great games.  Oh well.)  But when we met the guy we sold our tickets to, we knew we made the right decision.  He was a huge Michigan State fan who drove all the way from Portland just to see the game.  He was decked out in gear and really excited.  The kind of fan we would have been if the Dawgs were in Spokane.  We found the right guy to sell our tickets to and we felt good about it.  He was happy, we were happy.

So there is such a thing as too much basketball. If the Dawgs or Zags had been playing in Spokane, I’m sure it would have been a little more exciting for us…and we would have made a lot more money on our tickets too! There’s always next year. GO DAWGS!

My adorable niece made a song to the tune of Jingle Bells for Kevin and me.

It goes something like this:

Auntie Kelli, Uncle Kevin
they get married too
mumble mumble mumble
i like fancy dress
Pllggggggfffff
Cousins please!

I’m pretty sure positive she was put up to that.  But it’s pretty irresistable nonetheless.

Soon baby, soon. For now, pick out that new fancy dress!