Exciting news

Hey everyone,

Nick and I found out today that we were approved for the loan to buy our new house! Yiiipppeeee!

We kinda kept it on the downlow in case we didnt get approved for the loan. So for those of you who dont know: we started, well, I started looking at houses online a few weeks after Riley was born. There were a ton of foreclosures (what we could afford) around Sac, but I didnt really find any I liked too much. Most were fixer uppers or old houses that should be updated. They were the right price, but I knew that we would have to put a bunch of time and money into them down the line. And since Nick is not so handy with the hammer, I knew it would cost a ton of money to hire people to fix up a fixer upper. So I gave up...

That is until a few weeks ago when our friend Rob put a bug in our ear to check out the house he bought in a new development. I was convinced we wouldnt be able to afford a new house so I kinda shined him on and said...ya, ya, we'll look at it. But once we discussed the price of his house I thought maybe we could swing it. After checking out a bunch of new developments around the area, we ended up liking John Laing Homes the best and long story short...now we are going to be neighbors with our friend Rob and his wife. Sweeet.

Funny thing: the house is in Natomas...a place both Nick and I said we would NEVER live. We also both said we would never live in Sacramento and we have been here 4 + years.

So, the home is in its first phase of being built and should be completed in mid to the end of January. The original closing date was supposed to be Valentines day, how sweet, but the new contractor is kicking butt and we will definitely close sooner.

Check out the picture below. Our house is the one on the right. The left one is what ours will look like when it is complete :) Except for ours is a different color I think...