Time flies.

I can't believe it's already DECEMBER! Tim and I have been married for over 4 and 1/2 months!

OCTOBER:
The last few months have brought us a lot of work (I even went and worked a few days at Tim's office for tax extension deadlines).

My dear Grampsy passed away unexpectedly in mid October. For his memorial we had a potluck at my Nama and Grampsy's home and all the cousins and aunts and uncles got together, looked through old picture albums, and talked about our memories. It's sad that it takes such a tragic event to get a whole family together. I hadn't seen some of my cousins in probably about 10 years, and I used to spend weeks at a time with them when we were younger! For his obituary, my Nama asked each of us to write 5 words or a 5 word phrase/sentence about Grampsy. Mine was: "Goodmorning Chef; Hotcakes with Love!". Every grandkid rembers craving Grampsy's breakfasts of bacon and hotcakes. It was always cooked with perfection. It's actually how I received my nickname of Bacon Queen.

A picture my cousin Amanda drew of Grampsy

NOVEMBER:
I am the person that is always on the real estate sites. I want to see the houses on the market in Pullman, see how long they stay there, and how much their prices change. Mostly, I just do a lot of dreaming. I always show Tim houses, and we always end up feeling a little defeated by what you can (or can't) get for your money in Pullman. I don't know why, but the Pullman housing market sure seems inflated for living in the middle of a wheat field!

About a month ago, November 18th to be exact, (I keep almost every activity of my life in my planner), Tim scheduled with a realtor to go look at some townhouses in town. Just to give you a little background, we've looked at houses before with this realtor, about a year ago. I'm not sure why, because we weren't planning on buying, but he humored us and took us anyway. Same thing this time....or so I thought.

It was funny because we walked into one home, and Tim had questions about it's stats (year built, sq. footage, etc). I rattled 'em off like an encyclopedia. Like I said, I'm on the sites all the time. I know what's around. :) It was just a normal, boring, run of the mill townhome. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I love our rental for what it is, and hoped that our first home would be something I would look forward to making a home. The second place we were supposed to look at had actually sold, apparently in a day.

Off to the third home on the list, which I literally rolled my eyes at because I had peeked in the windows (it's new and empty) and knew I wasn't going to want to leave. Sure enough, home #3 was #1 in my heart! I fell in love! Long story short, we started the home buying process (completely backwards). We put an offer on the home the next day!

Someone must be looking out for us because we got our apartment sublet (and didn't get caught with our cats we aren't supposed to have). I've been living with prayers in my heart and crossed fingers.

Tim isn't the biggest fan of eating off of plastic utensils and paper plates, but we have boxes packed and ready to go. We are waiting patiently.