New House!!

Soo sorry it has been such a long time since I've posted anything! A lot has happened! We bought a new house!! We were renting an apt and found out that we could rent for about the same as a mortgage payment, as long as we got a good deal. So, the search began at the end of last year. We started looking for foreclosed homes, homes people were trying to get out of quickly, short sales etc. The first house we looked at, I wanted it, haha..at that point I had no idea what went into buying a house, so we didn't get that one. We put the search on hold for a while, to save more money. We made a goal. On Jan 11, I went to visit Heather's grave and met up with her Mother Kim, she told me that she heard I was looking and wanted to be my real estate agent. The search began again, it was much easier with her. She took us to any house we wanted. Most the houses we saw were not in good shape, I saw the potential, Chad saw all the work and money we would have to put into it. Finally on April 19 we found the house, Chad walked in and at the end he said, "I like this house!" Kim and I looked at each and just smiled and squealed! It was a 3 bed 2 bath 1300 sq ft home for 99,900, it was in good shape, clean, well kept. We made an offer the next day. 4 months later they accepted the offer. It was a LOONNNGGG wait, we almost gave up, but b/c of all the foreclosures it typically takes that long, or longer. We love our house though! Life with a house is sooo much better! It is soo wonderful. The kids play so much more, there is so much more room. I have REALLY enjoyed fixing it up. There is so much we want to do to it, and with time we will get it all done. We already have a ton of equity b/c we got it for such a great deal! I feel soooo blessed! I know Heavenly Father helped us to get this home. He helped us to save for it, and helped us to be patient to find it and to wait, I also believed he helped us to have Kim as our realtor (she was great!) Sorry it has been so long since I've written, we no longer have the internet, we got rid of Comcast, b/c our Bill went up..crazy comcast..so now were looking for internet at low monthly rates..anyone have any suggestions? I will post pics of the house as soon as I can!! Before and after pics as well.

Living Room Before (This furniture is the previous Owners)




























Living Room After

So the pics are WAY too high, Chad put them up, but I'm going to bring them down a bit, Chad thinks we should keep it up high b/c of the Kids, what do ya'll think?

The Color turned out to be a little too yellow for me, I wanted more of a sandy camel color, but paint colors never turn out the way the sample looks, I still like it though. I will be getting curtains for the windows soon and we plan on getting hard wood floors in the living room and hallway, someday.

Kitchen Before (Previous Owners pic)



Kitchen After

As you can see it hasn't changed much. The only thing we changed so far is the paint color and we got new hardware. We plan on getting a new tile back splash, tile flooring, new countertops and sink. Oh and Chad is going to build a shelf in the garage for all of our appliances. I'm going to put cute little plates and bowls or something above the cabinets.

Hall Bathroom

This is probably my favorite room so far. When I finally finished it, I would randomly go in there during the day, just to look at it. haha. For this room we are going to get new lighting fixtures and new hardware. Oh yeah, this bathroom before was a peach color, didn't want to bore you with before pics. I just realized that this bathroom matches my blog background, that is too funny, I totally didn't do that on purpose!

Hallie's Room

I need to get curtains and a new lamp for her room. Oh and I want to get some white wooden letters in her name to put over her bed. P.S. I painted the fairy, and had so much fun doing it, I am so proud of it, it took me forever to get it how I wanted it.

Owen's Room
This paint color turned out WAY too dark for me, its soo frustrating when you LOVE the sample & it turns out ALL wrong, oh well. Anyways, I'm thinking about painting a mural of a tree with a monkey hanging from it. Its going to be cute I promise, maybe it will brighten the room up a bit. I have some more pics to show you of his room but its taking too long now to download. (i'm totally using someone else's wireless internet ew scary!) Also, my room is not finished, actually I haven't even started. I will post before pics of that later.

My Bedroom Before (Previous Owners Pic)


P.S. On all these pics I had to lessen the quality so they would download faster, thats why it looks so bitmapped anyways, sorry