We Own a House!!!!!!!!
It feels sooo good to be able to say that!! We have our very own house!!! We are so VERY excited and happy and just plain giddy about it. Even L and M. (Although you can't tell in this picture-M just woke up from napping on the long drive.)
This is our real estate agent, handing me the keys--He was AWESOME, by the way! (We really should have closed the door for this shot, but we weren't thinking straight at the time.
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Can you see the joy and excitement radiating from our faces?

Because David still needs to work down here for a little longer, we aren't moving for a couple of weeks. But we did go up and spend the first weekend in our very own house. Here are a few pictures of the house and yard.




Here is the garden. It is huge! I spent quite a bit of time working on it. Here is before:

And after:

Both L and M are ecstatic to have a house! When we were in the car, pulling out of the garage to go back to our apartment, L said, "I wish we were just going grocery shopping and then coming right back." And then, when we pulled up at our apartment and got out of the car, M pointed to the apartment, stomped her foot, and said in a very determined voice, "I don't want that house!"
This is our real estate agent, handing me the keys--He was AWESOME, by the way! (We really should have closed the door for this shot, but we weren't thinking straight at the time.

Can you see the joy and excitement radiating from our faces?

Because David still needs to work down here for a little longer, we aren't moving for a couple of weeks. But we did go up and spend the first weekend in our very own house. Here are a few pictures of the house and yard.
Here is the garden. It is huge! I spent quite a bit of time working on it. Here is before:
And after:
Both L and M are ecstatic to have a house! When we were in the car, pulling out of the garage to go back to our apartment, L said, "I wish we were just going grocery shopping and then coming right back." And then, when we pulled up at our apartment and got out of the car, M pointed to the apartment, stomped her foot, and said in a very determined voice, "I don't want that house!"