Fadedwords

Jake called me about 40 minutes ago.  They met tonight and closed on the house.

So we’re officially house owners. 

Several months ago Jake and I began looking for a house, just to get a tiny idea of what we might like.  We saw a few on line that were nice, but nothing that jumped right out at us.  Several weeks ago, though, something awful and wonderful happened at the same time.  My best friend, Tim, told me that he and his wife were moving back to New York and would need to sell their house.  The house we had instantly fallen in love with the moment we saw it.And so we began the tedious, stressful, stomach-churningly exciting process of buying a house.We got word yesterday that our loan was approved, and we close on the house Monday April 30th.Some stats on the house:

• 1500sq ft
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bath
• ~1.5 acres of land
• riding mower comes with the house
• washer, dryer, stove that come with it.

A view of the back yard.

The front of the house.

**Click on the pictures to see full-sized images**

More pictures will follow after Tim, Tracy, and the girls have moved out… which will be Monday after closing.  Sadly, I won’t get to say goodbye to them… but I think they’ll be back to visit us in our house.  

We are very excited.  Obviously I won’t be moving in until I find a job, but hopefully that won’t be too far off.

We have a house!