So...We Bought A House

I mean ... OMG We bought a house!

Yes, the whirlwind-impromptu-house-hunting trip resulted in us buying our first house.

What a busy, crazy, hectic time that was! The day before I left to go back to MD we took another walk around the outside of the house that was at the top of our list. We didn't need to go inside again because we had just come from looking at another house that we realized was the exact same floor plan as this one.

That evening we told our Realtor we were ready to make an offer on that house. We didn't want to procrastinate and wait any longer for fear that it wouldn't be on the market for too much longer.

Good thing we did that too. We found out that same day another Realtor took his clients for their 2nd look at the house as well.

The next morning, before I was driving back to MD, we met with our Realtor to go over the details, and sign, the contract of our offer.

After that I hit the road and a couple hours later found out that this other couple also put in an offer on the house. Ugh. The first time we decide to put an offer on a house, so does someone else. What I imagined was going to be a little negotiating with the sellers was now going to be in competition with another potential buyer.

I didn't realize how stressed, or emotional, this was going to be ... especially the waiting!

So we each submitted our 'final offers' and the nail-biting began. I was hoping to hear something by the time I returned back to MD that evening, but nothing.

Later the next morning Joe called and started off saying "So...do you want me to just start looking..." and I thought he was going to say "for houses in another neighborhood," but he said "for a refrigerator." The fridge in the house was 'negotiable' and I didn't want to get in to negotiating for that so we said they can take their fridge, we'll get our own. So that was Joe's way of telling me...they accepted our offer!

So now all the paperwork fun begins ... with me in MD and Joe in SC. I still can't believe we're buying a house!

Here are some pictures. The pictures from inside the house are NOT from the house we're getting. I didn't think to take pics from inside the first time we walked through. These pics are from the 2nd house we looked at with the same floor plan, so the paint etc is not the same.

Formal living/dining rooms


Master bedroom which is on the first floor. Initially I didn't want a house with the master on the first floor (especially with Kayla's sleeping habits since we've moved) but I'm hoping she'll go back to sleeping through the night in her own bed when we're all together again. There was so much else about the house that we really like, I think (hope!) I can deal with the master being on the first floor!


View from kitchen to family room and out back.




This picture IS from our house (taken from the listing site)


The loft upstairs (to the left is a bedroom, bathroom, and linen closet)


from the other side...2 more bedrooms that way


I like this bedroom with its little 'nook' in the corner.


This IS our house.


I know I am going to enjoy having a screened-in patio with a ceiling fan!


And the pond! Which of course means we'll need to fence the yard; but still...how fun! The kids are going to enjoy taking walks around the pond and seeing ducks, fish, and turtles.


So, that's been our excitement of the month!