We bought a House!!!!!

Woo Hoo! We've been house hunting for several months now, but because of school and waiting for me to have a full time job too, we knew we wouldn't be able to buy until this month. We went house hunting a few weeks ago and found two that we really liked, but they were both snatched up... or so we thought. We arranged to go out again with our realtor, Carol, and one of the ones we liked was back on the market. We looked at it first that day and every house we went to after that was not even coming close. We talked about it and put an offer that evening. They accepted a day and a half later and it's been a whirlwind ever since.



It's an older home (1962) 4 bedroom 2 bath with a 2 car carport, huge screened in porch, laundry room, tool room, shed, and a cute front porch. I'm posting pictures of it on our picasa photo album. There are a few things that we'll need to do: for instance, the teal carpet, though very soft and extremely clean doesn't match our decor, so we'll pull it up and expose the HARD WOOD FLOORS underneath!!! (can you believe they have them covered?!) We're also going to take out a small wall between the kitchen and dining room to open it up, and we'll have the kitchen remodeled as well.

At this point, we're scheduled to close on the 29th of this month, but it could be sooner. Timing could be a little tricky though since I have my state board exam (NCLEX) on the 20th. I've also started orientation, so I have my own patients now (scary) and we have to pack up our entire house (who knew we had so much stuff crammed in here) in the next three weeks on top of full time work schedules and studying. But we're loving the insanity of it all!!!