Heartbreak and Fun

This weekend was full of ups and downs. Friday, we waited, and waited, and waited....to hear anything about the house we had made an offer on Thursday. We had a wedding to go to in Topeka Friday night (a friend from my graduate program, Dana), so I tried to fill my time packing for the weekend. I picked Kevin up from work right at 5, and we made the two hour trip. About 15 minutes before we made it, we received a call from our realtor. It wasn't good news. Apparently, the offer we weren't sure would come in did come in. We had made our offer not knowing that there would be another offer on the table. Although we felt it was strong, we would likely have offered more knowing there would be competition. The other offer was for asking price. Needless to say, the sellers accepted the other offer.

I was still pretty upset when we walked into the wedding, but it was great to be surrounded by good friends to distract us. The wedding was a lot of fun, too! I forgot to take my camera this weekend (I was a bit distracted :) ), but here is a picture of the girls in my program and their husband's when we went out to celebrate the end of comps in April on my birthday (p.s. Mandy, we missed you!)
We were SO relieved that our tests were over!The guys were good sports and posed with the purses. Kevin, nice leather matching! :)


We always had a blast hanging out together, and all the spouses all enjoyed hanging out too! So, it was so fun to catch up with Alisha, Josh, Sarah, Bree, David, Bridget, Stacey, and baby Harper!

After the wedding, we headed to my parents' lake house for the rest of the weekend. They are in Alaska for six weeks, so it was like our own private lake resort. We brought library books, Kevin grilled, we swam, and spent time in the spa. It was so great. We really needed that R&R time to get over our disappointment. Again, this is an older picture, but here we are paddle boating at the lake.

We are going to start looking at houses again this week. My job is to not get so emotionally attached to the houses we like. I guess you only do that once before you realize you can't picture where the nursery may someday be, what colors we would paint the kitchen, etc.