"...is a very very very fine house,
with two [kids] in the yard,
life used to be so hard,
now everything is easier 'cause of you."
~Crosby, Stills and Nash
My dad used to sing this song all the time, especially after he and my mom bought their first house. After a while he didn't even have to sing it--he could just say the first verse of the chorus--and we'd know he was quoting the song. So, naturally, it's the first thing that comes to mind when I think of our own first house :)
I don't think it's really sunken in yet, we've been a little stressed out these past few weeks, and then there's the fiasco-to-come when we start to move.
*Breathe in, breathe out*
Repeat to selves: We. Are. Homeowners!!
Our house is just a few blocks down the road from where we live now--a good 2 minutes away!--so we're still in Everett, even though we're so far south that we could trip and land in Lynnwood. We take the exact same route to get to work and our friends and family take the exact same route to get to our house. Best of all, it's in a nice little development where the kids can go trick-or-treating and the entrance faces a dead-end street :)
A few phone camera snapshots to document this new milestone...
Of course we took pictures of the keys as soon as we got them! Tore the envelope open and took a picture of them sitting in Aislin's car seat :)
Aislin was my model for the next few pictures :) Des was asleep and Tim was still on the road, so it was just me and her taking pics for Grandma, Grandpa and Tito AJ!
Great story about that fridge: it was agreed upon that the fridge would be bought and installed for us as long as it was under $1,000...but we went with something around $1,300 agreeing to pay the difference afterwards. Our real estate agent (who's also a friend of ours in our ward) took care of the difference up front so we thought we'd owe him that amount, but when we went to pay him back...he said he had planned on getting us a house-warming present anyway so, if it was okay with us, the balance would just be his gift to us.
Holy hefty house-warming present, Batman!
The view from Aislin's bedroom window :)
Enough said ;)
