Big, exciting weekend

Over the past few weeks, Corey and I have gone from casually looking for more space in the 'burbs to full on house-hunting given the good interest rates, house prices and the opportunity to rent our condo to Joan (her landlord is looking to sell the house she's renting).  We kicked off the weekend by touring a great house in Sammamish with our realtor, which we quickly put an offer on. (As we've been searching for houses, we've noticed that all the ones in our budget with the feature we're looking for are pending after just 1-2 weeks on the market, so we knew we'd have to act quickly when we found something we liked.)

We spent yesterday touring a new housing development in Newcastle should our offer not get accepted on the Sammamish house.  Later I met up with Kelsey and Sara to put together Gina's baby shower invites --- it's on Cindo de Mayo and we can't wait for celebrating baby Gorden!

Today, after a family grocery shopping/coffee run, we ran up to Northgate to find Jackson his first pair of real walking shoes.  Apparently the kid has wide feet - we ended up buying a pair of 5.5 extra wide Sauconys.  (We'd tried for some Stride Rites, Nikes or Pumas, however they weren't available in wide or extra wide.)  They're super cute and look like a baby's version of a running shoe.  He had a bit of trouble figuring out how to walk in them, but he's slowly getting the hang of them.

This afternoon, I met up with Natalie and her friend Wendy for some candy making.  I made a bunch of chocolate 1's when I can use as cupcake toppers at Jackson's birthday. 

We also found out today that our offer was accepted on the house!  Assuming all the paperwork goes through, we'll be homeowners very soon and I can't WAIT!

Looking forward to the week ahead and the progress we'll hopefully make towards closing on the house.

 Our (hopefully) soon-to-be new house!

 Testing out the walking shoes.

My multi-tasking husband and his sous chef.

My multi-tasking munchkin.