hunting for a home

We've wanted to buy a home for a long time.  As with everything in life, we've had to wait.  We knew that when Randy got the job out here in San Francisco, we would finally have a chance to find a home and make it our own. 

What we didn't anticipate is the fact that there are maybe four properties on the market at any given time in the area we want to live (and in our price range).  We've expected a small 3 bed/2 bath home and are the least of all things, picky.  We just want a yard and to be less than 10 minutes from the BART.  We're very fortunate and thankful that we are able to get a single family home (hopefully) in this area at all. 

This weekend we saw an old house that needed a complete overhaul inside and out (could be exciting, but not for us).  We saw a house that was decent inside, but had no yard (no thanks), and we saw a house that I adored, but Randy didn't.  Sad face.  But of course, the fourth and last house on the market, we fell hard in love with.

What do you think?  She's modest and cute, and surprisingly, already wonderfully remodeled which we didn't expect to find.  Because there are so few houses on the market, there is a ton of competition and many homes are getting multiple offers exceeding the asking price.  And wouldn't you know, this house is already at the top of our budget.  So we're praying that God will do something incredible.  You can join us. 

See?!  It's so cute!  We were fortunate to be the first to see the property, but we can't put in an offer until Wednesday because the seller is out of the country until then.  Our realtor says we have a lot going for us, so we'll see what happens.
In the mean time, we're doing all we can to get our minds off of this nerve-wracking process.

We spent Sunday morning at the bustling farmer's market in the city, although apparantly I forgot to take a picture of the actual farmer's market.  It's huge!  It's like going to the Costco of farmer's markets with all the samples, only with the best fresh California peaches and apricots, figs (figs!) and plums, cheese and meat and hummus and bread and... you've ever had.  Eat that Costco.  We've got a new tradition.

And had a rockin fried oyster po' boy along the waterfront.  It was a pretty great day pretending to not think about what could be our new home.  :)
P.s. Doesn't Randy look amazing in these new cool shades we got him?!  Just can't keep my hands off him!

What post is complete without Bubba?  It actually got pretty hot one day, and we found him like this in front of the fan, his hair blowing all over.  Sweet boy.