Our New House!

Don and I bought a house on Thursday! We are unbelievably excited and equally overwhelmed. This is my first time owning a home, what an amazing feeling. We are feeling very lucky to have sold a house and purchased a new home in this uncertain economic time. Luckily we got in on a good market before things went south.
To mark this event in our life my good friend Ryan came out to the house to snap a few shots of us on our first day. I can't tell you how awesome it is to have such a talented pool of friends and nobody I trust more than Ryan to take my photos! He is also officially the first friend to see the new place.
Over the next few weeks we will be painting, painting, painting, refinishing floors, painting, getting our basement parged, painting, and shopping for appliances. Did I mention we will be doing a lot of painting? I started one room today and I am quite overwhelmed. The labor is overwhelming and the color scheme is overwhelming. We will be having someone else do the floors and basement so that's good.
Ryan sent these teasers my way today and he also posted them on his blog, feel free to go send him some love.

Our new home!

We thought it was humorous that the sold sign says "but we have others".

We have a swing!

This weekend is my first weekend off since August! And it could not have been better timing, actually the timing was quite intentional. I plan to work my butt of painting this weekend. We plan to move in mid to late November. I am excited to get down to some normalcy.
I will keep you all posted as we make progress.

Thanks again Ryan!