Home Sweet Home

Part of my hiatus from the blog included Andrew and I searching to buy a house. The whole process happened so quickly and has been an amazing experience thanks to our wonderful realtor.

Back in January and after the kidney stone mishap, Andrew made a comment- completely joking- that he wanted to buy a house so we would have a hose to be able to wash the cars. However, this joke was a seed planted in both our minds and began to grow into something larger. A couple days later we received a note from our landlord asking about re-leasing our apartment and that rent would be increasing by $30. Yes, I know what you're thinking- $30 isn't a whole lot in the grand scheme of things but if you add it up over 12 months and then however many years we stay in Kansas we figured it might be worth looking into a mortgage.

The house buying process was completely new to me but Andrew had some experience from buying a house back in Belton a couple years ago. Lucky for us we got connected to our AWESOME realtor who worked with us around the clock to make sure the experience was a positive one. Within the first two days of deciding we wanted to look into buying she had set-up 6 showings for us that coming weekend.

After looking at the 6 homes we fell in love with a house that was a little out of our price range but we decided to try and put an offer in anyways and test our luck. Unfortunately, someone else put in a more appealing bid and we didn't get the house. However, right after we looked at the 6, Andrew and I had stumbled across a house we wanted to check out if the offer wasn't accepted. The next evening Stephanie scheduled a showing and we decided to jump right in. The house was in our price range and had practically everything we were looking for. That evening we submitted an offer and were off to the races!

The whole house buying process was very anti-climatic. You put in an offer... wait... hear about your offer... wait.... start the loan process... wait... BUT our wait is finally over and we are now homeowners in the city of Eudora, KS as of 10:30 this morning.

Of course, with recently attending the Home and Garden Show and Andrews obsession with HGTV we have a list of projects we hope to complete and are excited about the potential the house has. It's a great starter home and we can't wait to begin making memories in a place we can finally call our own.

**note: we took this photo during our final walk through last week. It was per Kansas weather with strong winds and some rain sprinkles.