We Bought a House!

Yes, it's true!  We bought our first-ever house.  We have been holding out on the news until it was official, but now it's ours.  And here she is!  ***EXCLAMATION POINTS!!***

Sorry, not the best pic!

The short version of the long, crazy story is this... We have been looking, looking, looking since early this fall.  In the fall, we had a contract on one house in a different neighborhood that we loved, but we pulled out because of some issues they found on the inspection.  That would be house #1.

After Christmas, we put a contract on house #2 - just around the corner from our new one.  We had the inspection, and we were going through with it.  Still in our option period, we decided to take a drive by our new house (house #2).  On the way home, we happened to drive right past this grey one (house #3) and saw the for sale sign up - it must have gone on sale just the day before.  We looked at each other and said "Oh no!  Well, let's just look at it to be safe."

When we looked at house #3, we instantly fell in love with it.  It's exactly what we had been looking for.  It's what I had imagined our first house to be.  We really did love house #2... there were a few issues that we were just going to "deal" with, but we loved it.  But then - BAM! - house #3 surprised us and we really loved it.  Third times a charm, I guess!

Some of our favorite things about our new house....

• It's an old, charming house in a historic neighborhood, but it doesn't require any "fixing up" (we are not those HGTV people!)
• Some of our best friends in Tyler live just down the street (priceless)
• The front porch (Nick's fave - he will be out there all the time)
• The playground and park just around the corner really draws a diverse crowd, and we're excited to get to know people that we wouldn't normally get to interact with
• The kitchen - snug but awesome!
• Everything else!!! 

Thanks for being excited with us.  We move at the end of March and will be sure to put up more pictures then!