Our first home!

As you know, Richard and I have been in the process of purchasing our first home for a while now. The idea started in January this year and we began the search right away knowing we needed a signed agreement by April to qualify for the tax credit. Well after the looong period of waiting and wondering, we bought our first home!! and we still ended up qualifying for the tax credit!

Our new home was actually one of the first ones we looked at on our first day of looking. We really liked it right away, even with the fixing-up it needed, it just felt like us. So we made our offer back in the beginning of February believe-it-or-not! This house was a "short" sale, which definitely means it's not a short process.

There were a lot of obstacles we had to overcome in order for this to happen, and all of them ended up working out (minus still needing to get our apartment rented out). Needless to say, Richard and I were so happy once we finally closed and had the keys in our hands! We are very thankful to God for making this happen and all of the friends and family that have been here for us and are still helping us each day.

Here's our house! This was before the new roof and the mowed lawn. I will post some 'after' pictures once we get settled.

Our beautiful neighborhood with such friendly neighbors. The location was one of the top priorities on our list.

This is the living room/kitchen/hallway BEFORE we painted, got new floors and baseboards.

The entry and dining room with bay windows. We did keep the tile and the red walls.

Here was our backyard before we hired somebody with a special machine to mow it down!

This is Richard in his painting outfit :) we had to paint the walls, and all of the vaulted ceilings because the previous owner was so dirty! That was quite the process...

Here is our living room the night after we moved in. You can see the beautiful wood laminate floors that Richard and a few other guys put in. I'm so proud of Richard for all the work he has been putting in to our new home and it looks amazing!

More pictures to come!