Ry, Meg, & Cooper: July in a Nutshell

July was a crazy and very exciting month for us. We had lots and lots of pool time, Ry played in a golf tournament every weekend, we had lots of family time out on the course and the weather couldn't have been more perfect.

Ry and I were planning on buying a house in the early fall and decided that before we start seriously looking and fall in love with something, that we should see what we are approved for. So on July 3rd I had a pre-approval meeting to see what we qualified for, that day our realtor, Jason, sent me a list of houses and none of them really screamed "come look at me" there were a couple that I wanted to walk through, because sometimes walking through is better than pictures. There was one that didn't have the greatest pictures (they were taken in the winter) but the location was exactly what Ry wanted. Ry has been really busy with work so I forwarded him the list and told him which ones I wanted to go through. He was only interested in the last one on the list, which was the one I knew he would love the location. That evening we drove up to look at it and Ry was one hundred percent in love, I loved the location, didn't love the looks of the outside and still really wanted to look through the other houses on my list. I guess I always pictured going through tons of houses before I decided on "the one" but that wasn't the case. Jason called me the next day to let me know that one of the ones I wanted to see sold and the other had an offer, so we only went through the one that Ry was loving. We went through the house and both of us looked at each other like "yep, this is the one" and Ry said he didn't want to look at anything else, period. I still did, just to make sure we were making the right decision, I mean, it's a very pricey decision; so Jason took me through four or five houses that were priced about the same as the one Ry loved and I hated them all, none of them felt like they could be my home. Ry and I drove up at least three or four times to look at the house again that weekend and to watch the sunset, the view is absolutely stunning. We took our family up and a couple of our close friends to show them what we thought would be our house. Since we were not planning on buying until fall we were shocked we found something that we liked so much so fast but we both knew it was the house for us and it was one of those things that we would regret forever if we lost out on it. So Tuesday the 9th we put an offer in and heard back the next day that it was accepted, I pretty much had most of the house packed before we even heard back, I was so excited! Our closing date was set for August 12th, so we worked on getting everything packed and getting rid of anything we didn't want in our new house.

Like a said we kept busy playing at the pool, golfing tons and tons of paper work for our house and packing this month. We got final approval on July 30th and got our closing date moved up to August 2nd.

We celebrated our FIVE year anniversary on the 31st, has it really been five years?! We were planning a trip to Vegas, it's long over due, but we decided that buying our new house was sufficient and we were both more than fine with that decision. We spent some of the day together, Ry still had work, so we met for sushi at Sumisu and just spent time together that night. July was a whirl wind of fun and excitement, I think it was the fastest flying month of the summer.