New Adventure

That's right to all 5 of you who read my blog, Jason and I are going on a new adventure. We bought and closed on a house Monday! Yippee, hooray!

I still can't believe we have our very own home. It's been a great experience. We only looked at one house (that is because I had obsessively weeded them down on the Internet for the past 3 months). We had a good friend from church, Jason O'Quinn, be our Realtor/mortgage man. Shout out to Jason, you are awesome!

And most importantly, we stayed in budget.



We aren't moving into it just right away. It needs just a little bit of updating, i.e. floors, paint and some fun stuff like that. The house was built in 1960 so it has been around for a while. But that is why we love it, it has such great character and TREES! Being from Abilene I didn't know what a real tree was. Jason is from East Texas and he does. We have always wanted a magnolia tree. When we went to see the house for the first time, Guess what was in the front yard....


A house warming present from God. Thank you God for our magnolia tree.


Here are some pictures of the house. The pictures have the previous home owners stuff in it but it will give you a good idea.

You better believe that the home owner left the Christmas wreath for us.



Here is the kitchen.


Back patio...this will be our favorite spot in the Spring and Fall.


This is looking from the kitchen into the family room.



We hadn't been in the house but 15 minutes on Monday and Jason was already on the roof cleaning out the gutters. That is a good sign that he is OK with doing all the dirty work.



We even have already had our first house guests. The Fabulous Duty's!

This is their natural reaction of course.


Well there it is, our first home. If you ever feel bored on the weekends, give me a call. I will definitely have something for you to paint, clean, scrape, pull up, mow...I mean the list goes on. But if you just want to stop by and say hello, that will be just fine too.
Stay tuned for remodel pictures!