David and I are HOMEOWNERS!

Yep, you read that right! After MONTHS of waiting for our loan to close, its official, we bought our first house. 

We originally applied for pre-approval in April and looked on an off for a little while for our perfect home. We couldn’t leave our condo until July so we had some time to kill so we spent hours looking on Redfin, Zillow, MLS, and driving around neighborhoods and visiting a few homes. 

We found one in Lafayette that we liked, it was brand new and we were early enough that we could have picked out some of the items the builders would be adding (paint colors, carpet color, etc.). We placed a very rushed offer but had little time to discuss it with each other due to our work schedules. That night, David got off work late and came in to our room to say goodnight and we finally had a chance to talk through it all. After a long conversation and some tears, we both felt it was right to pull our offer off the table. The commute, the work that needed to go into creating a backyard and our budget weren’t worth it in the end. Praise the Lord we did that. 

In May, we were shown a listing for a house that we thought was really cute! It was a two bedroom, one bathroom, which was a little smaller than we had originally wanted but it did have my dream white kitchen and a cute backyard. I called my mom to discuss it and she also thought it had potential. David and I ended up meeting my parents at the house to walk through and were disappointed with what we saw. Terrible neighborhood, a beat up backyard (they were doing construction on the lot next door) and carpenter ants galore. No room for a kitchen table either which was weird. We knew that wasn’t the one. My parents and David and I ended up looking at a handful of others that night and all fell short. Potential? Definitely, but not without a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But then we went down the road…

There it was. Standing SO cute in a little neighborhood near the dog park we like to take Hank to, within walking distance from our favorite Mexican restaurant, a church, a produce stand, and a ton of coffee shops. We walked in and it. was. PERFECT. 

Dark floors, white trim, MY WHITE KITCHEN, two bedrooms/one bath and the cutest little backyard. We fell in love even if it was one bedroom and bathroom shorter than we originally were looking for. David and I kept looking at each other and silently giving each other the “I’m-in-love-let’s-get-it-now-eyeballs.” My parents were also excited about it, which made it even more exciting to me. The backyard would need some work but it was nothing we couldn’t handle. 

We drafted up an offer that night (at like 10 pm) and had it submitted the next morning. We ended up getting a counter offer that we accepted over Memorial Day weekend while in Bend with my family. Then it was the waiting game...