Home Sweet Home

As most of you know, Bart and I have been looking for a house on and off for about a year now. In July we found this listing, we have no idea what made us go look at it because the listing said 3 bed 2 bath barely 2000 sq ft, unfinished basement was in West Jordan and I didn't want to live in West Jordan and was not at all what we were looking for. We showed up and walked inside the house and right away I turned to Bart and said "This is our house!" As we walked around and toured the house, we realized the listing was completely wrong. 3 beds 2 baths and unfinished basement turned into 5 bedrooms 3 and 1/2 baths and a full finished walk out basement with a huge nice yard and RV parking! WOW! We went straight to our realtor's office and made an offer. The house was a short sale so we knew it would take a while to hear back. Two months later, we started losing hope on that house because we still hadn't heard anything and the other realtor said it would take a month, so we started looking at other options. At the end of September we went looking for houses again. We decided that would be our last time if we couldn't find anything until Bart was done with school. We went way out west in West Jordan and decided it would be fun to build a house. We got plots, floor plans etc... on our way home we got a phone call saying our offer had been accepted on this house from July and did we still want it. We were put in a tough situation! We loved the house, but the thought of building a new house sounded fun and exciting. We debated the next couple days, weighed our options and decided we would be stupid to not go with the house we originally LOVED and wanted to be ours right away. So long story short.... last Friday Bart and I bought our first home! We love it! We finally moved in today after some deep cleaning and tiling we did in the bathrooms, with the help of my awesome bro in law John and many others (thanks!). We love our new home and couldn't be happier! I would take a bunch of pictures and post them, but with boxes all over the house I can assure you it doesn't look that great yet! As soon as we get things put away and in order I will take some pictures and post them! We can't wait to get to know our neighbors and ward knowing we aren't here temporarily!