Home Sweet Home

A few weeks ago Brian and I finally decided to take some good advice and meet with a man in our old stake about our finances and the potential for owning our own home. The good old "American Dream" seemed to be a reoccurring one night after night - per say. A cute little house, on a cute little street, with a cute little yard...yada, yada, yada.

So we met with the guy. He chastised us for having "so much money in savings" and wondered why we weren't putting it toward "anything that was working FOR us?" All good things to think about, so he opened our eyes to the possibilities, and since then things have just really rolled forward.

We found a great little townhouse/condo deal that is actually located at the end of our street, for those of you that know where we live now. It is a 2 bedroom 1.5 bath, that included ALL the appliances. Yeah for not needing to go buy a fridge, and washer and dryer, etc. It's "cute", it looks like we'll have pretty good neighbors (mostly older people), and it has a private fenced in back patio/deck that Maverick already loves to run around in. And, there is a SWIMMING POOL. Which unfortunately also means the HOA fee is a bit higher than we feel necessary.

But as of last night at 5:45 pm it is officially ours! YEAH!!! And don't be surprised if I go hog wild in the painting area. For the passed 4 years I have lived with LOTS of beige and white walls that I couldn't paint, but now it is mine and I can do whatever I want. Oh fun! We are excited to be home owners, and ecstatic about our 5.2% interest rate. What a blessing! So happy that we will still be able to live within our means, (we are basically paying what we were for rent - AWESOME!) and hopefully Brian will be getting his raise here in October and we will even be able to save more!!! The Lord has blessed us. Things have just fallen into place, and it feels good.

So, I made Bri hold this sign for the pictures last night. It says "home sweet home". We have had this sign since we got married and it has always been one of the first things to get a spot in each of our now 6 "homes", but somehow the idea of it really being ours feels sooo much more home-ish to me. Sorry for the silly sign Bri, but I was having a moment. Pregnant ladies can't be mocked...haha! And we couldn't get Mav to hold still long enough to snap a good photo of him, but he seems to feel right at home in the new place and already talks about his and the babies room, and wants to share it with all his friends. Yes, Dino has already received his personal tour of the place. And yes, his slide has already had plenty of "yee-haws" exclaimed while sliding down it in his new "backyard".
We think it will be a great place for us for now and are anxious to get all moved in. We moved about three closets over last night and hope to get lots more stuff moved tonight, but the big stuff will all go Saturday Morning - you are more than welcome to send some muscles our way since my prego belly won't allow for much muscle usage. Good thing Bri is so buff all on his own. But some extra team members wouldn't be a bad idea.

Also, my sweet blog readers, sadly we are probably going into Internet blackness for a while. Maybe we will have it again before the baby. We'll see. But for now, I am not really sure if we will be able to make another post for quite some time. If that is the case, I will miss you all so much, and I hope you miss us too - even just a little. And as Brian would say, Sayonara!!!