Home, Home on the Front Range

Many of you know Joe and I are looking for a house here on the Front Range, and we recently took some tours and found a few we REALLY like down in Thornton! So we have offers down on two homes and are crossing our fingers that either of them fall into place, since they are both kind of ridiculous situations. The first is a HUD home and we put in our ridiculously low-bid offer, knowing we would probably never get it, but hey - we also buy lottery tickets sometimes. We got KINDA lucky and got the second-highest bid, so if the first bidders fall through, it's OURS, baby! But probably things will go smoothly and we won't get our dream-price home complete with hardwood floors, so that's why we put in a SECOND offer on another home - more expensive, but still well within our humble price range (certainly well within what the first pushy real estate agent thought should be our price range!) and in a better neighborhood with better schools. Not that schools will matter, most likely, since it'll be a while.... but who knows? Anyway, our bid just got accepted by the seller, but it's a bank-owned forclosure, so we have to see what the bank says, and that's where the waiting com es in :( We're crossing our fingers, though, and letting you know you should cross yours, too! We could use some extra luck! Here's a little photo of the house from the front yard

Hahahaha! We'll actually post some pictures if we get the house. 'Til then, a girl can dream, right?