Still waiting...

Mandy called me a little while ago. She said the lawyers are going to hold off until Friday to make a decision. Apparently they have received three offers on the house and they want to wait to see if they receive any more by Friday.

Waiting Game

We did it again! Yesterday Erik and I put an offer down on another house! The house is in Red Fox, for those that don’t know Red Fox area is a really cute neighborhood. Now it is just a waiting game. It is a short sale so we have to wait for the offer to be approved by the bank. Hopefully no one else will put an offer down on the house because, well we both love this house, and we are very tired of spending one entire day of our weekends looking at houses. The house needs a little work but it will be so much fun fixing it up. Oh yea there is a pool in the backyard. I don't want to give too many details so let’s just all pray that it works out and we get this house and if we do then I will post pictures and tell you more about it!

On another note, the STDs are arriving at my house this Wednesday, a week earlier than they had originally told me they would be in. I am very excited to see how they turned out.

Oh and I am going dress shopping this coming Saturday! YAY

STD’s are in production

It has been almost a month since the last update. We had been super busy with Diana’s wedding, and boy was it all worth it, it was amazing; I know I learned a lot from her and I am once again in wedding mode.
It was great seeing everyone at her wedding and I can’t wait to see you guys again when you come back to DC in August.

I ordered our save-the-dates last week and I can’t wait until they come in. It takes them about 2 weeks to make them, then however long after that to get to my house. I want to send them out the first week of December so make sure you look for them in the mail. I was going to wait to send them out but Erik suggested I send them out in December because that is when people will most likely be making their summer plans. He’s a thinkerJ. I have been learning, or well attempting to learn calligraphy. It is very difficult, and I am terrible at it. Hopefully by the time I have to write the addresses on the envelopes I will be halfway decent. I apologize in advance for my infant-like handwriting.

Can someone please tell me why finding a house is so hard? House hunting has been a little frustrating. On Sunday Erik and I went and looked at about 20 houses and didn’t like one enough to put an offer down. It seems either everything is way overpriced or the ones that are in our price range are mice infested. Why does this area have to be so expensive? Only thing we can do is keep looking, hopefully something will come along.

Legwarmers Concert!!!

I suppose this post is a bit delayed but better late than never right?  Anya said I need to post more often and put more pictures up so I am . 

On September 19, Erik and I went to a Legwarmers Concert with our friends Richie and Alaina. What is a Legwarmers concert you ask? Well they are an amazing 80s cover band.  Erik and I absolutely love 80s music.  The best part about this concert was that you got to dress up in 80s attire.  We looked awesom

e, but you guys can judge for yourselves.  Here are a few pictures Anya took before we went out. My favorite one is the first one, I do believe it sums up how we both feel about the 80s.

 

I will put the rest of the pictures online for your viewing pleasure and you can access them through the link on the left-hand side of the page.  We did not have the best outfits though; there were people there with outfits that were actually their own outfits that they used to wear in the 80s.  A few ladies even came in their prom dresses with BIG bows on the back. Oh it was glorious. Next time I will take my own camera and take pictures of the other people.

Updates on the house hunt

This past Sunday Erik and I went house hunting again, this time it was with Dorit, Mandy’s partner at work. Before went met with Dorit I checked my email and found a wonderful house on Terrell Street a few streets down from Erik’s family’s house in Annandale. Erik and I decided to drive past it and we loved it, so I asked Dorit if we could go see the inside of it when we were done looking at the homes we had planned on seeing.

We looked at seven houses on Sunday before coming back to the one on Terrell Street. Out of the seven we liked one of the townhomes we saw. But then we went to the house on Terrell Street, and wow let me tell you we all fell in love with it. We showed the family and they loved it too so we decided to put an offer down on the house!

We waited all day Monday and around 7:30pm I get a call from Mandy saying they sold the house for more than $22,000 more than we had offered. The house had been on the market for less than 24 hours and the realtor said she had gotten about 30 calls saying they were interested in it.

I was obviously upset but in the end the house was not meant to be ours, and we will keep looking until we find something. We will keep you posted!

Bridal Showcase and House Hunting

On Sunday the 7th my mom, Ava, Neila (my cousin) and my grandma went to the Washington Bridal Showcase. Boy oh boy was it overwhelming. There were people EVERYWHERE. Obviously I understand the point of a showcase, but man these people were vultures. As soon as you walked by if you even thought about making eye contact they sucked you into a conversation about their products or services. It was fun though. I found a few perspective photographers and will most likely start contacting them around November. We tasted a few cakes, and to be honest most of them were so dry I cannot believe they charge $600 for them. Insanity.

So you walk in the expo center and you sign these forms, pay your money and get a bag with a magazine and 3 sheets of paper with little squares of your unique number on it. You rip the little squares off and put it in the vendors’ boxes to win prizes. I didn’t know you had to stay until 4 (the end of the showcase) to see if you had won. We all left because Erik and I had an appointment with Mandy (our old neighbor) to look at some houses. Neila went back to the showcase to see if we had won anything, obviously we hadn’t. But in the last few days I have been getting phone calls saying that I have won a few things, nothing really just 2 make-up things and a bridal package vacation (which is like a seminar you sit through and get something in the end), we didn’t want to deal with that. But I did win an at home make-over for me and 10 of my friends. Going through I realized most of my girl friends are all out of the state or just too far to have them come over on a Wed night, so I invited the few that I have here along with moms and sisters. It should be a lot of fun.

As I mentioned before Erik and I went with our wonderful neighbor Mandy to see a few houses in the area. Out of the 4 or 5 (I can’t remember) we went to we liked one of them. I know 2 of the places we didn’t even get to go into because they gave incorrect information about the status of the house. One did even have a lock box on the door and the other had the wrong lock box. The others we didn’t like as soon as we walked in we could smell the mold so we immediately turned around and walked out. The last one we went to was wonderful. It was a townhouse, it had a deck, a HUGE kitchen with granite countertops and new cabinets. Three bedrooms 3 bathrooms, hardwood floors everywhere, really cute fireplace. We really liked it. But we are going to keep looking, perhaps the prices will go down even more while we are looking.

Clambake

I know two entries in one day, crazy. On July 17, Erik and I went to the National Harbor in MD for an AGC event. It was called a Clambake, we had (and by we I mean Erik did because I don’t like seafood) mussels, clam chowder and Lobster. We didn’t think they were going to give each person a whole lobster but they did! I did try the lobster and I have to admit it was not too bad. I could eat a little bit of it but I do not think I could eat a whole one. Erik on the other hand is absolutely in love with lobster now. They gave me a chicken meal from Boston market instead, it was good.

Here is a picture from the National Harbor itself.

It was really beautiful. The drive out there was a bit painful but it was worth it. Erik had mentioned wanting to take out of town guests there and I agree with him. Depending on how long people are in town for we will make a trip out to the National Harbor with whoever wants to go, hopefully by then they will have finished up the whole area.

We are both very excited!

Ceremony Site

I know it’s about a week late but better late then never. On the 15th of July Erik, Cherie (Luke’s aunt), Luke and I went to a place called Jefferson Court. It is a courtyard in the middle of a few office buildings. It is located right off of K Street in Georgetown. The location could not be more perfect. I have yet to take my mom there to see it, but I really like it and the location is so close to Top of the Town it is perfect.

I was thinking of having the arch here so that we would be looking out to the other part of the courtyard. We would set up the chairs to go around the fountain in the middle in a V formation. The courtyard is already decorated with trees and pots with flowers in them but we will do more to make it look prettier.

After the ceremony we were thinking of taking pictures here and down by the water in front of this area and along the boardwalk. While we take our pictures we thought it would work out that the out of town guest that have not seen this part of Georgetown would go off and take their own pictures, until we all go over to Top of the Town for the reception.

We still have to work out a few details and take my mom there to make sure it is ok with her, but I really like the idea of having it there. Let me know what you think, please be honest!

NEW CAR!!!

I did it I purchased my first car yesterday!!  It is a 2006 BMW 325i! It is so beautiful, haha. I am actually at a loss for words. I want to thank Erik for coming with me and being such a wonderful backbone while I was choosing the car and negotiating.  I also want to thank my mommy, thanks to her we got an extra $500 off the price of the car.  Because the two of them I felt confident and very supported when I was talking to the dealer.  

The funniest part is that if you look at the previous post the picture of the car in that and the one I actually got are identical.  The weirdest part is that we got my car from the BMW dealer 

and the one in the picture before was from a search I did online. Weirrd.

A bit about the car: It has a premium package which includes the leather seats and automatic seats, memory seats and all that good stuff, it also has a cold weather package which includes the heated seats and a built in ski bag (I know I don't ski but I figure Kelly would find this super sweet), and it has a sports package which includes nicer rim, sport suspension, bucket seats.  It comes bluetooth ready so I can press a button when I get a call and it will answer the call and broadcast it over my car's speakers. What else..hm...OH YA and it has AC AND A MOONROOF, hehe.

I love it! I will put some more pictures of my car up on our online photo album for your viewing pleasure.

YAY 

New Car for Dorsa

Ok here's the thing..(Erik says I say that every time I'm about to have a serious conversation)

...I've had my car since 2001 and lately I have had a few problems with it.  The AC has been completely replaced and still will not work.  Then just the other day I was driving it and it started to smell like sulfur (aka the battery was leaking) I had to get a new battery.  I know what you are thinking "that's nothing", well ask Erik and ask me when we are driving home in rush hour traffic in 92 degree weather with no AC. Not fun! 

So this weekend we went to carmax and test drove the G35 and BMW 325i.  I sat in the Mercedes Benz C-class and Acura TL and did not like the way they felt.  I liked the way both the G35 and the 325i drove but decided that I want to get a BMW.  Now I can't decide if I want to get it before we come to Chicago or wait until we get back.  I am leaning more towards the waiting until we get back because nobody likes to go back to work after a fun vacation and we will need something to keep our excitement up.

We have been looking on Autotrader.com and here is one of the ones we like tell me what you think!!

Long story short I'm getting a new car!! YIPPIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!