Our First Big Purchase

So you wont believe how thrifty Dan and I are... we've been looking at apartments online and kept seeing ones we like that are in our price range... but the kicker has been that they only have washer/dryer hook ups. We want an apartment with a washer and dryer because let's face it... our quarters are better put to use playing Galaga. So anyways, I told Dan that maybe we should look into buying a washer and dryer (an investment we will eventually have to make anyways) and we found these beauties on the ksl classified website! The ad had only been posted no longer than 1 minute and the asking price.... you wont believe this... $25 for the matching set!
At first I thought it was a joke. For April fool's day this past year, my mom's old roommate's son had posted an ad on craiglist giving away her washer and dryer for free and posted her phone number. She woke up to a ton of phone calls asking about her brand new washer/dryer that she was giving away..... so naturally I thought this offer was too good to be true! But I called the guy, he seemed nice (I could hear a small child whining in the background, so clearly a family man) and he told me that he had just bought a new set and just wanted to get rid of this one!

So this morning Dan and his brother and friend drove down and picked it up, and now Dan and I are proud owners of a washer and dryer for $25 lol.
A funny side note, I texted this picture to my parents and they laughed. They bought a very similar set when they first got married!

Also tonight we made these delish cupcakes. Super easy to make and bound to impress anyone you make them for:

They are my grandma's specialty, but I didn't have all the ingredients to make them from scratch so I used a package of just normal chocolate cake mix (we used German Chocolate because it was on sale, and because I am German [if there was Canadian Chocolate cake mix, Id buy that instead]). Mix it up like the box says. In a separate bowl, mix:

a package of cream cheese

1/3 cup sugar

1 egg

vanilla

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Pour the cake mix into muffin tins 3/4 of the way full, and add a spoonful of the cream cheese mixture. Bake for 25 minutes at 350. Makes 24.

We also watched King's Speech tonight. I loved it.

Oh my goodness, one more thing to add.... dan bought a Wii today!!!! It is black and it is so fun. He did his price shopping and found a great deal at Target. Now that we have mastered being experts in deals,  I need to work on my mario kart skills!