Sunday, February 8, 2009

Our First Home Sweet Home!!

Above: Front of house

Above: Back of house


Above: Front door/porch area


Above: hallway/entryway; half bath is on the left and the laundry area is on the right of the hallway.


Above: Living room;


Above: Family room with sliding door to backyard.


Above: Eat-in kitchen and kitchen

Above: Kitchen and you can see a little bit of the formal dining room


Above: Kids bathroom upstairs


Above: Bonus room upstairs with attic access

Above: Closets in one of the bedrooms

We are officially home owners!! After only a few weeks of searching for "our" house, we found this and fell in love with it. When we walked in, Cam told me that he knew this was meant to be our home, but I wasn't so convinced. I loved the house, but I also liked two other homes we were scheduled to walk through a few days later. To make a long story short, the other two homes were not near as nice as we had thought and they both needed a lot of work. As soon as I realized that, we walked through this house for the third time and I knew this was our home too! Everything worked out perfectly, even the offer which was surprising since there was another couple who was very interested in it as well. Believe it or not, this house has been on the market for over a year, and there have been three other offers that were put on it in the past year, but the seller didn't accept them until we put our offer in yesterday afternoon, and he accepted it without even counter-offering it. We put in an offer yesterday on this house, and it was accepted today. We are just amazed at how the Lord's hand is in everything, because we have no doubt this house was meant to be ours for whatever reason. We are so excited to move in on at the end of March, now we have plenty of room for visitors!!

House Facts:
Our house is a little over 2100 sq. feet, 5 bedrooms (well, the previous owners used it as a fifth bedroom, but we'll be using it as a bonus/play room), 3 baths. It has tons of attic space for storage, a living room, a family room, a formal dining room and kitchen with a pantry, and a bonus room which is upstairs. It has newer windows, appliances, furnace and A/C which was a huge selling point for us. It's in one of our favorite neighborhoods, and only a couple minutes from Hallie's future elementary school and church. We couldn't have found a better house! Five years of renting and moving around every 18 months, we're proud to say we can call this place home for a few years at least.

10 comments:

dodasgirl said...

HOORAY!!! i'm so excited for you guys! i can't believe you own a home! and it is so nice! i love the built-ins in the fm!

congrats! and i'm only about 60% jealous

no... 90% jealous! happy home ownership!

Ryan and Nicole said...

YAY! Great house! Now you will get to deal with the fun stuff, like water leaks, rotting roofs, lots of yard work ;P It looks beautiful, lots of space for tons of Voge's to stay when we all come visit (you are nicer than we are). Now just have another baby and we will all come again soon! (Just kidding!)

Sarah F. said...

Congrats! Looks great.

Aaron and Amanda said...

CONGRATS!! I'm excited for your cute family :) Love the pictures!! Now you get to decorate. How exciting! You'll definitely have to put up pictures along the adventure.

Jim and Megan said...

Congratulations! I'm so excited for you guys! I love the house. It is going to look great when you get your hands on it and start decorating. Unlike Sarah, I am 100% jealous! One day it will happen for me. For now, I can only dream!

Amber said...

That is so great! As a fellow chronic mover I can say it must feel great to settle down. Congratulations!

Maura said...

Yeah!!!!! Congrats and good luck with the move and the decorating...

Alicia said...

yeah! Congratulations on buying your first home. It will be nice to have something that is yours. And a big plus to not have to move for a while.

The Lindic's said...

CONGRATS!! It looks beautiful! Enjoy it, they are a great thing to have, but also the worst thing to have sometimes. :-)

Jess said...

I'm so excited for you guys. I relish the thought of moving a third time when we finally build a home, but you must be a pro at it! The house looks fantastic congrats!