YAY!!!

Today we closed on our house!!! We signed a huge stack of papers, and made our down payment, and now we just have to wait for it to fund & record tomorrow, and then 48 hrs after that (or possibly sooner) we will get the keys!!! AHHH!! I can't believe it!! I'm so excited, stressed, nervous, and happy all at the same time! haha...

One thing that I am thankful for, we don't have a basement, just a yucky dirt floor crawl space that I will never go into... so we don't have to worry about a flooded basement! hahah... i have heard of like 3 people lately who have dealt with that, and definitely doesn't sound fun!

I'm just stressed about all the bills that we have to pay now, and neither of us have ever had so many bills! And now its going to take basically all that we make to get by until James finishes school this summer and gets a very nice raise! hahah... until then.. all i can say is "UGH..." hahah good thing i already bought so many decorations and stuff for our house... I have plenty to put up, and I don't think I'll really have any bare walls.. so at least I won't be tempted to splurge at Rod Works or Tai Pan LOL!

But we are excited to get to start out in a house... and so thankful that with the help of my mom who happens to be in real estate, that we could make this happen at such a young age! It feels like such an accomplishment already!

And we have so much fun now, wandering through Home Depot and Lowes looking at stuff we will need for our house & ideas on how to eventually and little by little remodel out first home! This has been such a good bonding thing for us too! We just get so excited talking about our plans to fix it up the way we want it, and having that common goal, just brings us so much closer! (Luckily, we even like a lot of the same stuff... for instance, we found a bathroom vanity that we both LOVE and we want to eventually redo the master bath, the main bath & probably the laundry room- bathroom in it!) It might be awhile before it looks the way we want it to, but its fun just talking about it!

One of our first "fun things" we want to get (that isn't necessary) is two comfy chairs and a small side table for our patio! So we can sit out there on the weekends during the summer and drink coffee in the morning and at night eat dinner, and have our own little BBQ together!

We get to go and buy our new furniture for our house on friday too! I can't wait! Oh and paint! this weekend we are going to be painting as much as we can too! :) So fun!