Friday, February 27, 2009

We Got a House! (Lots of pictures!)

So, there are some you that have read on my Facebook that we bought a house the other day. We got an awesome deal on it. It's an older house and it definitely needs some cleaning and fixing, but we're not scared. Immediately it needs new carpet and paint, but hopefully, thanks to our President's stimuls package, we should be able to get the $8,000 tax credit, making it possible for these projects. We should hopefully be able to close mid-March. I'm so excited to be in a house and can't wait to get started!!! We took some pictures of what it looks like and just remember that it is going to be a work in progress. (Sorry, there's actually ALOT more pictures than I originally thought.) Here's the whole guided tour, minus two of the bedrooms, they all kind of looked alike so I skipped them.


The front of the house, we sit on a corner lot.


You walk in the front door and this is the living room. And yes, the carpet is gross.


Here is another angle of the living room and there one of the entrances into the kitchen and dining room.


Dining room and pation door.


The kitchen from the dining room and the entrance to the half bathroom and the laundry room.


The half bath and laundry room.
The hallway from the living room.
The first bedroom from the hallway.
The gorgeous bathroom.
This is the side yard and there's actually a door from the master bedroom. That is where I'm standing for this pic. It has a pretty big side yard.
This part of the back yard from the patio door.
Part of the patio. This is a covered section of it.
The other half of the back yard. This part needs some work but totally perfect all in all for the boys.

Also, we decided last week that we wanted to something fun with the boys but not spend any money. So we pushed all of the furniture out of the way and set up a little tent in the living room and put the air mattress in it and watched a movie. Logan thought it was just the coolest thing. It was so much that I want to start a weekly tradition of doing something like that. Here are a few pictures of the boys hanging out in the tent.

These are just a couple of snap shots I've taken of the boys in the last week. Our weather has been so nice and we've spent alot of time outside!

8 comments:

Valerie said...

Congratulations (again) on being homeowners. I'm so excited for you!! Thanks for the pics. Good luck and have fun with all the spruce-ups.
(Thanks for putting a side shot of Kristi in the photos.)

Jamie W said...

Congrats!! That is so exciting. I am really happy for you guys. (by the way - if you send me your email address, i will send you an invite to our blog. jmswakefield@hotmail.com)

Krysta McClure said...

Sarah!!! How exciting!!! Hey, we know what it is like to get an old fix-me-up place. . . but it feels so good as the pieces come into play in making it truly your own. What work, but FUN, you have ahead of you!!!! Congrats! Looks likes a cute little place!! Can't wait to see everything as you go through the stages! :0)

Lacy said...

That must be a huge relief for you guys to have found a place! It's going to be so much fun for you to have a place of your own where you can do to it whatever YOU want!!! Congratulations and I look forward to the updated pictures (with new carpet, of course!)

Amber Blair said...

Congrats on the house, I won't lie, I was sad to see we'd be losing you from the ward, especially since we work together in activity days. But I know it's way better than renting. It looks like a nice house, I know a great carpet cleaner if you aren't puttig in new right away ;)

Unknown said...

BITTER SWEET! I am happy for you but sad to have you leav the ward! What a cute idseao with the whole tent thing.. the things that cost the least or nothing at all usually are the kids favorites!

Anonymous said...

The house does not look as bad as you say it is!! Yeah the carpet... but seriously, it looks great! Congratulations, being home owners is great (except when you buy so high and don't think you will ever get what you paid for for the house you're in!! Sorry I'm venting!)

Boudrero said...

congrats!! I haven't talked to you in forever. I am so excited for you guys.