07 May 2012

House Baby!

Oh my goodness, this last month has been a roller coaster...not literally because that would be silly. But seriously, this month has been crazy. We bought a house! It feels weird to say that, but we really did buy a house. So lets rewind.
At the beginning-ish of March we were in the midst of house hunting. And it felt like we had seen/put offers on every single house in Utah county (not really but it sure felt like we had). So one day after work, Matt picks me up to go look at a house in Pleasant Grove with a separate 2 bedroom/1 bath apartment in the basement. It was a beautiful home but it was priced out of our original budget so I didn't think it was realistic for us. I had already moved on toward the idea of building a home while Matt was stuck on this Pleasant Grove house. After nearly a week of this, I thought what the heck, lets throw them an offer way below list price. They'll reject the offer and we can finally move on toward building a home. So that next morning, we threw in our offer and by that afternoon we were under contract for the home!
The next 2 weeks involved a home inspection, lots of packing, signing mounds of paperwork, a nervous breakdown or two wondering what the heck I was doing, and a moving party 3 days earlier than expected. (Thank you to everyone that helped in all the craziness!) And to top it all off, we were able to find an awesome little family to rent the basement who moved in mid-April.
After all is said and done, we are very happy with the new house. It has everything we were looking for plus a little more:) Enough talk, here's some pictures.


Kendall's favorite part of the whole house!

1 comment:

  1. I like you sister! And yes, spending the last month on a roller coaster would have been silly. Or changing the month into a roller coaster. Either way.

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