Coming Up For Air

Another Friday at dance class

A couple of times he wanted to join in... but mostly Tanner watched the lovely sea of little girls in pink...

"Position One"-- never knew it could be so tricky and therefore SOOO cute-- after being corrected a few times, she focused so hard, kept her heels together causing her belly and bum to stick out while she hollered to the teacher "yook yook!" pointing adamantly at her properly spaced v-shaped feet with SO much pride. You can imagine MY pride.

Can you tell which feet belong to my little girl? Poor thing... mama can't get around to buying her a pair of shoes.

(These pictures have nothing to do with the post.... Tanner came with us to Sophie's dance class last Friday and I snapped a few before we went in... they’re super cute when they get together... for at least an hour before they fight crazy like brother and sister.)

Now on to the house:

It's official. We made the wrong decision. Thanks!--- to those of you who said the house was cute--- but it's not ours as of tomorrow. We just kept coming back to a home in a different neighborhood, (same builder, same great sale) that we've had our eye on for over a year. The home we bought was cheaper, in our current ward, close to my F&E Market, and included a neighborhood pool.... lots of selling features. It sold us quick... but once we got through all the chaos of the campers and the line and the urgency.... it just didn't feel right. We kept going back to look at the other house and agreed that we both felt SOOO much more at home there (spiritual? maybe... or maybe just because the cabinets were a gorgeous espresso and the granite my favorite color scheme--- and the master bath SO much bigger.... and for Ross? Pre-wired for surround sound!) Sounds a bit shallow... but the floor plan was so much more comfortable and the neighborhood... familiar. We have a lot of great friends who live there, it's zoned for a better school, and mostly... we just like the house a LOT more. I'm SURE now. And that's a good feeling. I'm sick of making pro/con lists.

Now for the stressful part. So this whole UnAuction makes for an interesting buying process. We can't just rescind and buy the other one. We get to camp out all OVER AGAIN!

Hooray.

The sales agent has informed us that another family wants our house and is supposedly going to be camping out as of tomorrow... for the Saturday sale. So we've been racking our brains for how it's all going to work. Sigh. Kind of exhausting. I'm pretty sure that between myself, Ross, and his parents (coming for Mila's blessing this weekend) we'll have our place in line covered as of tomorrow morning. We might be a lone car parked in a parking lot for a couple of days like a couple of fools. But we can't bear to lose the house after all this.

Sigh-- I seriously feel like we haven't been able to talk or think about ANYTHING else since last Wednesday or so... and now to go through it all over again this weekend... kind of a bummer. But if we get it... it will ALL be worth it! And there will be so many pictures to come! I am SOOOO excited about this house. We'll have a guest room without a baby in it... so anyone's welcome to come visit. :)

So I posted our first rental ad on Craigslist Sunday, and we got two calls today. Hooray! One family came by to look at it tonight, cute couple with a little girl... could it be any more perfect?! We have a pink room waiting for her and everything! I'm feeling hopeful--- wish us luck.