End of September....

So "my" house sold. Sadness. It was on the market for over 6 months and then 15 minutes before our realtor called to schedule a showing, they accepted an offer on it. I was pretty sad for a bit, but it's just not meant to be. We looked at other houses, crossed all but one off our list and are now just kind of waiting. We both liked the last house we looked at. It's in our price range. It's in the town I want to live in (and was the only house we looked at in that town). It's HUGE and was kept up well (except needs a new roof), even though it was a foreclosure. It has a good sized yard... but we both feel like we should wait a little bit and see. Our realtor said he's going to do some background checking on it and get back to us with more info. So we'll see.

We have decided to move into Guy's cousins house. We took Chief over for a play date with the German Shephards again on Sunday. They were still curious about Chief, but by the end of the night they all calmed down and laid down. So that's good. It probably won't be till December, which made me realize we won't have Christmas in our own place this year... kind of sad, but oh well. Maybe next Christmas will be in our own house, which is even better!

We're headed to Philly next weekend (Oct 10th)... So if you're out there, reading this and want to see us, oh friends in Philly, let me know! We're coming down Thursday night (late-late) and staying till Sunday sometime. We'll be going to homecoming, which I've never done before. So let me know if you'll be around and want to get together!

Updates and such

So after finally giving out this web address, life slowed down a bit and I had nothing to update! Well, that and the fact that I liked the wedding picture slideshow so much that I didn't have anything to say that would top that. But I suppose it's about time I at least wrote something.

Life has been slowing down for us, which is very nice after this last summer. On Friday we both looked at each other in shock, realizing that we had NO PLANS for this past weekend. Surely it was a miracle! So we promptly filled up all our free time with little things here and there so that I'm left waking up on Monday morning wondering where the weekend went.

We have been going back and forth between looking for houses to buy and houses to rent. It seems to depend on the day on whether we think we can afford to buy a house, or if we should just continue to rent. Last week we were all about finding places to rent. We found a couple, but nothing nicer and larger than what we have and that would also save us money... unless it was in a bad neighborhood.

We finally decided to get in touch with a realestate agent instead of just looking online and doing "drive by's" of houses that we think look great online, only to find they don't look like they should even been standing in real life. We tried getting in touch with one that Guy knew from school, but she never returned our calls and we could never catch her in the office. So finally we came across the name of one that deals with foreclosures around here and decided to see how good he'd be. He has been amazing so far, and has worked mostly through emails with us (which works best for us, since finding office hours to call people and actually get the time to talk to them is tough). Guy called him Friday afternoon and let him know what sort of houses we were looking for, what price range, and what areas. By that evening he had emailed us listings for about 10 different houses, none of which we had found online ourselves. We emailed back and forth Friday and Saturday and by Saturday evening had a date set with him to look at some of the houses. I just find it amazing that he checks his email all weekend long and gets back to us so quickly!

Saturday we spent driving around to do drive-by's of the houses we will be looking at on the 28th. We've already crossed a few of those off the list due to location or train tracks or the yards, but there are still a few we're interested in... And one favorite. It has a large yard, is farther into the country, but still isn't too far from my work. The foundation looks solid (from the outside) and although we will probably do some cosmetic work on it, it looks like something we could just move into without too much trouble... but still looks like something that could use some TLC, which we want to give a house. It's an estate sale, and is listed for much lower than the assessed value. So we'll see. Here's a couple pics:

Sunday we went to Guy's mom's house and got given a pretty good offer. Guy's cousin and her husband were there and was saying how they were going to be moving to California for 5 months during the winter, and were wondering if we knew of anyone who would be willing to house sit because they can't leave their 2 German Shephards alone. So we're thinking about doing that... Free rent and utilities for 5 months would definitely help us save up for a house! The only thing holding us back right now is Chief... We need to make sure that the dogs get along, since German Shephards can be mean, and Chief is pretty small. So we're going to let the dogs meet and go over details with them somtime this week. Keep your fingers crossed!

Our Wedding

...fall?

This weekend was spent mostly in our house. Sleeping. I don't know how both of us managed to sleep as much as we did, but it was lovely. Both Saturday and Sunday were rainy, fall-feeling days, and Guy and I spent them as such. I did do laundry, and dishes, and we reorganized our kitchen cupboards... But that's about it. On Friday we went out with some friends for karaoke (which Guy loves and has been wanting to do for weeks now). Saturday we slept in, took a long nap and watched movies. Sunday we slept in, cleaned a bit, then finally kicked ourselves out of the house to go visit Guy's mom (and use her hot tub!). So nothing of much importance to report.

This next weekend we're going to visit my family. My mom is visiting my brother, which is halfway between us and her. He also lives about 10 minutes from my dad, so we figure we'll get to see everyone at one time. Otherwise that's about it.

We got some pictures other people took at Josh and Sarah's wedding last weekend... This is one of my favorites of us:

Photography Website!!!!!

I finally got my photography website up... http://www.rgsphotography.net/

It is still in massive overhaul mode, and I don't have the right photos or enough photos on it at all... So be kind in your judgement, dear blog-stalkers. Once I actually get through formatting the 3 weddings I took pictures at, I might have some more (better) photos to put on there. And once I've taken some of the portraits I have lined up, it will be much better! Now if I can just figure out a better way to display the pics.... But for now it's up and running!

We went to Pittsburg this past weekend for Guy's cousin's wedding. We missed the actual ceremony, but made it for the reception. It was a nice time away. We came back on Sunday and thankfully I had yesterday to recover!

This is one of my favorites:

... what's best is that he got her to dance with him later