Attention all Bakers, please HELP!!

To all of you who are fabulous bakers and wonderful chefs, whose rolls rise and are soft and delicious, whose bread comes out smelling fabulous with just the right amount of flour, and whose cinnamon rolls have the right amount of butter - this is for you. I need help. I need a cinnamon roll recipe that will actually work. I have tried all those, no fail this always works recipes that I read on the blogs but they never, ever work for me. I need step by step instructions. None of this, around 6 cups of flour or more, but don't over flour. What?? Yesterday I tried a new cinnamon roll recipe, only to have them come out flat, unrisen, burned on the bottom, and too rich. My husband is a good sport, he loves me through it all and eats them anyways, but you must know that my mother-in-law is like the QUEEN of baking rolls and bread, she's famous for it and so I know this has been a rough transition for him. I love cinnamon rolls and we love eating them but...does anyone have a recipe that works, like everytime?? I want my cinnamon rolls to look like this:
Some people bake cinnamon rolls and they look like this, Miriam-I've had yours, yours look like this picture, I've tried the recipe 3 times and ended up throwing half of them away...sigh...

Also would anyone like to make a decision on what house Aaron and I should buy?? We have officially found 2 houses that we love. Of course, I love one more than the other and Aaron loves the other one more. But our realtor called us last night to tell us that my number one has another offer. What? Its been on the market for 3 days now, 3 measely days. So the owners have decided to give everyone else who wants to put in an offer (there are more of us who want this house? my goodness) until tonight to do so!! So I don't know what to do. Part of me says, "another will come along we don't want to be pressured to make a decision before we're ready" but the other side says, "you will compare every other house to this one what if you don't find another one you love as much." I also feel like we're losing a lot of our negotiating power but there's a reason this house is selling this fast, its just beautiful. Of course we would be moving to the one part of the country where the housing market isn't slowing down...I'm also just super anxious to find our house, move in, and begin nesting one month before Big Mac gets here. As you all can see from this post, I'm on the verge of breakdown. :)