The house

We're coming up on a month and a half in our first house, and I love it. Although ideally it would be a little bigger, with maybe another bedroom, its pretty big for our price range. The floors are all laminate or tile, except for the guest bedroom. We have a full master bath (some houses we looked at didnt have a full tub). The kitchen has been redone and is open and pretty. The former owners had major green thumbs, and left a lot of plants...not to mention the big greenhouse, completed with grow lamps, heaters, and circulation and sprinkler systems (I know what you're thinking, and Im sure its not that!). There's abundant plant life along the front walkway, although it appears somebody stole our pepper plant before we moved in. We're on a lake, with the living room looking out into the huge backyard. the trade-off for that is that the bedroom faces the street and the walkway, which is weird, but not too big a deal. The guest bathroom has blue tile and fixtures that match with the curtains and towels I registered for. There's new, nice light fixtures throughout. We have a nice screened in porch. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. Good quality windows that should keep our heating and cooling costs down. A large garage. This house was in nicer condition than most that we looked at. Did I mention we have an acre lot on a lake??

Aside from wishing we had some space for a future nursery (one bedroom is ours, one is a guest room, and one is M's office/music room) and that they were a little bigger (my bedroom set didnt all fit in our bedroom), this house is everything we need (except a double driveway, which is only a problem while M is still moving out of the old place and needs my car not to be in the way of unloading into the garage). Our families have always loved this house; his mother even prayed on it. We bid on this house 3 times. The first time we saw it was the day our engagement announcement was in the Democrat - we picked up a paper and read it over breakfast. We decided to look and see if there were any open houses we wanted to go to, and this was listed. So we came to see it and instantly fell in love. M already knew this house existed, but hadn't seen it yet. It's a nice story, no?

We're in a subdivision too far away for students to want to live. Really, noise from outside rarely bothers us (occasionally geese are loud, and sometimes trucks going by bother the dogs...but the neighbors never do). Sometimes we can hear a party coming across the lake when we're outside, but that's perfectly fine. It's a pain to go out to eat, but that's really a good thing, we need to save money and calories by cooking at home as much as possible anyway. It's stil close enough for M to come home (albeit briefly) on his lunch break. I think we'll be happy here for quite awhile. One day Ill get around to posting some pictures!