Update Number Three ~ Our New House!

the new home

After months and months of looking, we finally found a house! We are so excited and thankful. We close in a couple weeks, and we cannot wait to move in and begin this next chapter of our lives. 

Looking for houses has been quite the process...definitely full of ups and downs. I loved getting to go through it with Adam, but I will be happy if we don't have to do this again for a long, long time. 

I really really really like our new house. I mean, it's pretty much the cutest house I've ever seen, and the neighborhood is where we wanted to be. There are lots of kids, and a good mix of homes, and they all have a lot of character. 

When we started this process, I thought that I knew what kind of house or size of house we would end up. It was incredibly tempting to spend more than we said we could to get just a little more space, or a little more updated, or this, or that. I am incredibly grateful for the convictions my husband had and held firm to during this buying process. We knew what we could afford, and what we couldn't, and he didn't budge from that...even when I would be tempted to, I'm sad to say.

One of the best things about this process was getting to go through it with Adam. We learned tons about each other - what we like and don't like, how we make decisions, how we research things, and what are the most important things in a home for each of us. Not surprisingly, we didn't always agree...which led to our fair share of arguments discussions. But I am thankful for those because conflict done well leads to deeper intimacy in a relationship, and I feel like I know my husband even better than I did before. And that would be worth going through again. 

Come see us up here in OK anytime! We'll have a guest room for you. I'll post more pictures once we get settled in.