On June 4th we closed on our first house! We have been renting since we moved here and found out our landlord wasn't going to renew our contract because he wanted to be done with the house (it is now a bank owned property). We had planned on renting for another year but we didn't want to move and rent again, and when this house came on the market it was the perfect fit! It is very close to the house we were renting (as in we were carrying loads over through the backyard during our move) so we're still in the same school district and awesome neighborhood where everything is walkable. We love our little white house!
Finding a house is so hard! You have this huge list of wishes and you know you won't find a house that has them all. In the end you have to decide what your top must-haves are and what things don't matter as much. The two things we don't have in this house are: a two car attached garage and there is only one bathroom. We hope to put in a second bathroom in the next few years and since we've never had a two car, attached garage we will continue to not know what we are missing :) The main selling points for me were; the fenced in yard, the 1/2 story (love the upstairs bedrooms!), the central air - and the location of course!
Here we are on closing day in the morning right after we got our keys and right when the girls got home from school!
And here we are during moving week (which is turning in to moving month...)
I'm so glad my mom was here to help, although I wish we could have had her stay longer! More on my mama's visit in the next post.
