A New Home

I am happy to report that Kent and I are buying a house.  This one.  I'm awfully excited about it.  Kent is fairly nervous, what with the economy tanking and the zombie apocalypse in the near future.  But we are taking the plunge.  We made an offer on the house in May, but it was a low-ball offer and the sellers sort of laughed at us.  They has listed the home for 30K more than it appraised for, and three and a half months later with no perspective buyers on the horizon, they decided to take our offer.  We didn't even have to negotiate!  It is in our ward (which we really like) so although we will have to move all our worldly possessions (of which there are far, far too many), our lives and routine will change very little.  

The house has a great floor plan, a porch, and is on a corner lot of a cul-de-sac.  We are going to do some work before we move in, and then more work, little by little, after we move in, but we are basically happy with it.  Even Kent.  The current residents have asked to rent from us for a month after we close, so they won't be out until the end of October.  Then with the work we want to do, I think we will move in around Thanksgiving.  Just in time to decorate for Christmas.