Today we became homeowners! We are super excited about our new house. It's not too far from where we live now, but we are definitely "moving up!"
We both took the day off to take care of last minute details, bank trips, and sign all of our documents. We started off the day by shooting a video of our current apartment in all of its glory. It was a great way to finish off our time in this apartment. We shared funny stories and realized how blessed we were in our first home, as we move on to this new house.
Then, we had lunch at Chick-Fil-A, ran a million errands and went to the title company to sign the very, very large stack of paper work. I even asked the lady in charge of our paper work if I could take a picture for my scrapbook. She laughed, and as you can see, we had to sign a lot of papers! I told Mark that it was kind of crazy that we had to sign more papers for this, than when we got married! What are we getting ourselves into?? :)
Since our closing was at 2:00, and the sellers couldn't close until 4:00 (grrrr, but okay) we had some time to kill, so we turned on the water at the house, ran a few errands, and since were were STILL waiting, we went to Dairy Queen and waited patiently with our ice cream cones for the title company to call. Mark and I played thumb war, and I said, "If I win, then the phone will ring..." Well, I kid you not, I won, and the phone rang! We were off! We picked up the keys and headed to our new house!
We decided to order a pizza when we got there and eat on the living room floor. While we were waiting for the pizza, we decided to check out some of the projects ahead of us. Mark tried to clean off the back patio with a garden hose, I checked out some of the appliances, and we really just marveled in the fact that this all really just happened.
When the pizza arrived (don't worry, I got a photo of our first visitor) we were so excited to have our first meal in our first home! Right when we sat down, we noticed that the agents for the sellers were there to take the sign out of the yard. Since we didn't have a picture in front of the house yet, we asked them to take it. They were so excited because they just celebrated with the sellers, and they said it was really emotional. They said that what helped the couple to feel "okay" with selling was knowing that we were so excited. They raised their kids in that home, so it was hard to say goodbye. They said that the lady told them at the title company how I took a picture of the paperwork, and how excited we were, and that gave them a peace about us taking the house. So all around, we feel like God really blessed this house, this purchase: everything.
We still have some time before we move in, and Mark is a little bummed about it. He seemed to sulk a little coming up the stairs to the apartment, but I know that it will be worth the wait! We are so blessed to be homeowners!
