Our New Home!

In June, we decided to look into the possibility of buying a house. We are young and don't have a lot of money and we just needed to know where to start. We started looking online at houses in our price range and started making lists of what we wanted, what would be nice and what was a deal-breaker. We thought about it for a while, went on vacation to Colorado with my family and in the middle of July started looking at houses.

The first house we looked at was our favorite online as well. I told myself not to get too excited, because I may hate it when I actually went to look at it. Even as we pulled into the driveway, I tried to talk myself out of liking it at all, just so I wouldn't get my hopes up.

Then we walked in.

There was new carpet, new laminate hardwood flooring in the kitchen and new tile in both bathrooms. It was freshly painted on the outside, as well as the inside. It hardly looked lived in, but looked like a brand-new home! There was a beautiful FLAT backyard, where we could see our neighbor's yards, but were not right on top of them and a privacy tree line in the back. It was great, but we had to look at the rest of our list.

The rest of the houses we looked at were less impressive. Not just because we had the first house's standard to hold the rest of them to, but because some of them looked like they could have been "drug" houses before. I'm not joking-I can only think of one use for florescent orange, yellow and pink racing stripes and glow in the dark stars in a garage. I'm just saying... Others were just filthy, and gave me the creeps!

So we decided on house number one. We put an offer in and the fun began! We prayed that things would go smoothly if we were meant to have this house. We also talked about the possibility that we may not get this house. If that happened, we knew we would have to look in a different area, or in a different price range, which would mean we would have to wait and look again sometime down the road. Sam and I didn't want to rush into anything, but were also very excited for the possibility of being homeowners. Getting all of the paperwork for our loan was a little scarier than I thought, but everything started falling into place and we were able to close on our house at the end of August!

We have been in our house for 2 weeks now and are working on making it a home. We LOVE it! We LOVE being homeowners and we LOVE that we don't have to ask anyone if we can do anything, because it's our home! We also see the responsibility of being homeowners and know that it takes a lot of hard work and money to keep it up. We are excited about this next phase in our life and feel very blessed!