HOUSE!

We bought a house!!! Well, we are still going through all the fun (ha) steps of the inspection (which we had done last week and are now waiting for the seller to respond to what we asked him to fix before closing) and waiting for closing in April. It has definitely been a learning experience and one that I am ready to have done.

Kevin and I had always said that we would probably start looking for a house when I was done with school and working. However, once we found out that we were expecting our baby we knew that we would not be able to stay in our apartment, and so the search began. We spent several weekends going out looking at houses. We decided to concentrate our search over on the Northwest side of Indianapolis close to St. Vincent. This was not an easy decision because we would have loved to stay in the broadripple area, however we quickly learned that we could get much more house for our money outside of broadripple. It was on one of our first house hunting trips that we saw the house that we have now buying. As soon as we walked in it felt right. It has three bedrooms and two bathrooms (exactly what we were looking for), a large living area with a fireplace (which I was looking for), a kitchen with plenty of cabinets and a pantry (which Kevin needed for all of his kitchen toys...we are currently storing some of our kitchen things in our dishwasher because we have run out of places to put them in our small apartment kitchen), a formal dinning room, a sun room, a wood patio (which we both wanted), and a nice sized and already fenced-in yard (with a storage shed where Kevin talks about storing all of his new lawn toys!). While it has not been the easiest process we are super excited and can't wait to be in our new home. There are only some minor things such as painting that we want to do otherwise the house is pretty much move-in ready!! So who wants to help us move?!?!?

Here are some pictures of the house....

Picture no snow, the sun, a grill, and patio furniture!!!

Baby's room (will be painted once we know girl or boy)

We can't wait to be all moved in! We definitely have a lot happening this year and are thankful each and every day for all the many blessings in our life.