Sold!

I interrupt the wedding updates to make a big announcement:

Tall Guy and I bought a house!

One Sunday about 5 weeks ago Tall Guy had woken up a bit earlier than me and was playing on his phone in bed. When I woke up, I glanced over and realized he was looking at houses in the area. I asked him what he was doing and he said that he was thinking we should start looking at buying a house sometime this summer. Giddily, I asked him what had made him decide that since we had been thinking we wouldn't be looking for another year or so.

We decided just to check out the pricing and take our time with looking. It's such a great market for buyers right now that we knew things were lining up well for us. We looked at 7-8 houses and liked them, but nothing was screaming out at us as 'the one.' When we had reached a dead end with houses we wanted to look at, our realtor said she'd look around for us within our desired parameters.

We went out looking on a Sunday morning at those and we went to one that was a little bit out of our desired area, but other than that, it was perfect. After we viewed it with our realtor and went to another house, we went back to the first house because they happened to have an open house that day as well. After looking at it again, we made up our minds to put in an offer. We put in the first offer at 6:00 and by 9:30 it was ours!

Now we're just going through the underwriting process and we'll be closing on June 17! We are so excited to be taking yet another step in life together!