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Weekend Things & Summer Celebrations

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Here are the makings of a perfect weekend:

  • Pulling three black and white dresses out of your closet for Friday, Saturday, Sunday outfit perfection
  • Friday dinner plans that combine family, pizza and a Moscow Mule
  • Up close and personal seats at Wicked
  • Jenn’s Birthday!
  • The Spice Girls, Will Smith, Hanson AND Whitney Houston playing in the bar you’re at and the hell with it, all of us girls are gonna dance
  • Saturday morning at the coffee shop when a girl biker gang shows up and they’re all just so cool
  • When “Buy beer” is the first “appointment” in your calendar
  • Biking to an amusement park in a dress and wedges and feeling like you’re just as cool as a girl biker gang
  • A Summer Shandy + a company picnic where you’re able to sweet talk yourself into winning the raffle Rockies tickets
  • Cutting into a pan of perfectly sweet and soft cornbread (yeah it may have been 85° degrees in our house and yeah I may have turned the oven on anyway, but that cornbread was worth it)
  • Summer BBQs, live bands, pulled pork and the coolest red truck, because no farm would be complete without one
  • Standing over your kitchen island to share a chocolate cupcake at midnight
  • Nieces that love to pose for the camera and enjoy Magna-Doodles just as much as you did when you were a kid
  • When you’re entrusted with the task of cutting the first piece of the world’s largest layer cake
  • Father’s Day cards that nail your relationship with your dad
  • Sprinklers that water your grass for you
  • Reading on the porch
  • Having the awareness to realize how super sweet summer is and soaking up every second of it

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P.S. That doodle my niece drew SLAYS me.

Exciting Weekend Things

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As you may have guessed, something exciting happened this weekend.

WE ARE OFFICIALLY UNDER CONTRACT ON A HOUSE IN DENVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Caps lock and every.single.one of those exclamation points was totally necessary.

On Friday morning, we saw a house that we loved and immediately put an offer (and a good one at that!) in on it.  At the end of the day we got word that the seller had decided to wait until Monday to give us an answer.  We were bummed, but at least it wasn’t a no.  Saturday morning, our realtor called saying he had a house we needed to look at ASAP.  We thought we loved the other house, but this second one was perfect.  We loved it even more.  Within two hours of being on the market, we had put in an offer and 5 hours later — our deadline time ON THE DOT — the seller accepted!

Now that we found “the one,” it feels so worth it to have passed up on all the other houses we looked at, including the one we thought we loved on Friday.  This one just feels so right and we could not be more excited.  As soon as we found out, I gave Joey such an excited hug that my sunglasses flew off my head and both lenses fell out (oops!).  But you know, I didn’t even care.  We celebrated with drinks and dinner on the Linger rooftop, which is all of 5 minutes from our new place (!!!!!!).

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Gah, that place is just so cool.

In other non house-related weekend news, we took my dad to Steuben’s for dinner on Friday night.  My mom and sister were in New Orleans until Saturday evening, so we didn’t want him to be lonely on a weekend night.  I ordered a Moscow Mule and fell in love.  My dad ordered the trout amandine minus the almonds because he once ordered the dish and almost chocked on those almonds.  Apparently he was traumatized by the experience.  He went back (with my mom and sister) the next night so I’d say our restaurant pick was a success.

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Before we dashed off to look at our house on Saturday morning, we met my dad at the Louisville Farmers’ Market — he does massage there once a month — to help him set up.  It was HOT but otherwise, a beautiful day at the market.  Plus it was nice to get a good dose of quality time with my dad, who was smart enough to have the floral tent next to us make up a beautiful “Welcome Home” bouquet for my mom.  How thoughtful, right?

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Today has been spent tying up some loose ends — our leasing office allowed us to extend our lease another month while we wait for our closing date, phew! — and spending time with the bride.  We went to a bridal show in Denver and had no idea what to expect, but there were lots of vendors, cupcakes and giveaways.  It was hosted by the Curtis Hotel, which is super eccentric.  We may or may not have ridden the elevator to 10 different floors because each had a different theme and a funny recording that announces which floor you’re arriving at.  I think I liked the 7th Floor, with a “Lots of Laughs” theme, the best.  Oh and I bought this candle at the mall while getting my sunglasses fixed…too soon?

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I think I’ll just end by apologizing for being annoyingly happy and excited for a while.  Hazard of being a first time home owner 😛