Our first home / first anniversary

So we have been searching for a house over the summer... I didn't think we would be looking into buying a house this soon. I thought "maybe 4 or 5 years down the road," but no. Prices are low, and Antony really wants to take advantage of that. Everything that we have looked at in our price range has been either in really bad condition, or with a lot of fixing up to do, or (nice but) without finished basements, with really only 2 usable bedrooms. The second day we searched we saw this really nice house, relatively new (2007), no up-front costs for fix-ups (which will free up our money to put a down payment instead of spending it on fixing the house). It was in very good condition- it looked like new, like nobody had lived there before. So we put an offer in that same day, and about 3 months later, after much delay (the bank lost our paperwork for a couple of weeks) and frustration, we are finally moving in to our first house! On the main (also top) floor it has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, a study area for Antony by the entrance, a spacious kitchen (compared to the cubicle for kitchen that I had in our apartment) and a living room. Downstairs it has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a family room, laundry room and... wait for it, wait for it, - A COLD STORAGE ROOM!!! haha! It does make me excited to have a cold storage room. Finally.  It ended up being bigger than what we were looking for, but it really was the only house within our budget, that did not require fix-ups, that was in the middle of our 2 jobs, close to the freeway, in a nice neighborhood, and with a finished basement.

What made it twice as special, was that we moved on the day of our first anniversary... I had initially requested it off from work (precisely because it was our anniversary) and later on it ended up being the only day we could move in... because we had it off! haha! So we celebrated it moving boxes and furniture. Family and friends helped us a lot, so it was not bad at all.

It is nice to have our own place, although it looks BARE (remember that we moved from a 1-bedroom apartment). Hopefully it will last.