We've actually known about this home for a while now. We made an offer mid-December and we closed on it on Thursday, Jan 26, 2012. Our lovely home. We bought it for $249,999 which everyone says it's a deal for the neighborhood it's in. It's a lovely neighborhood. All the homes are pretty but not crazy, I'm so rich, North-Salt-Lake crazy, and not so suburb-Draper bland, and not even so I-live-in-an-80s-home-in-Sandy-cause-that's-all-I-could-afford type either. It's frankly better than we could have ever dreamed of having for our first home. Isn't that simply wonderful?? We are so grateful to the Lord for this blessing and surely acknowledge His hand in this.
We simply can't wait to be able to do things like sit on our back deck and watch Elisabeth run around (hopefully with some neighbor kids who are around her age), look out at Mt Timpanogos while doing dishes from our kitchen window, being all cosy in a log cabin with a fireplace, running around the big field ourselves and having dogs, cats, and chickens, creating a nice, big playspace for the baby and our future kids in the basement, living outside and getting out of our cramped apartment. We could do so many fun things outside like have bonfires, go "camping", have really fun parties, easter egg hunts, treasure hunts, etc. The things you can do with a little bit of land are endless. Plus it's in a quiet neighborhood with little traffic. I just can't tell you how happy it all makes me.
We will be moving there in June, right around the time Paul graduates from school. What a crazy summer it shall be, I feel. It does seem rather far away right now but I know it'll be here soon. But back to buying this home, it's been some kind of a week, I'll tell you. We've been haggling with the guy who lives there right now because we were going to rent it to him for a while (per his request). But now he has offered to give us a water share if we let him stay there for free. It sounds like we might do this very soon. It's going to be hard to make rent payments and mortgage payments for a while. We have been a little stressed about that. But then the good news is that we know the Lord had a hand helping Paul get a raise this week as well. It's going to be $13K more than he makes now and a hefty bonus on top of it! We are extremely happy and grateful for that.
Paul worked really hard to make this all happen. He got a job offer (out of the blue) from Goldman Sachs and then HP counter offered on it on Friday. Paul's been pretty stressed and was so relieved and grateful for this much-needed raise right now. Anyway, that's the basic gist of things as they stand. All is well though. We have good friends and family and we are a happy family.
During this stressful week, the Spirit whispered to me that I must keep an eternal perspective on all things. As wonderful as it is to have a home, it won't matter a stitch a million years from now. Whenever I think of this, I always relax a lot. We learned recently in church that after the millenium, we won't even remember our lives on this earth. For some reason, that is such a pleasant feeling for me. As long as I can be with Paul and Elisabeth and the rest of our family for eternity, it's nice to know that life goes on.
Well, going to wrap it up now. We're actually going to go to church up in Heber at our new ward. I can't wait to meet the new people in the ward and see our home again!!
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| Kitchen area |
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| Lovely fireplace |
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| One of the bedrooms |
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| Kitchen |
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| Front room with big picture windows |
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| View from the loft |
