We Bought a House!!

We first started looking for houses when we first decided to move to las vegas! We actually found one in henderson we really liked, but it was a short sale... We started working on all the papers and the process before we were even married! Well after 7 months of waiting and living in Marks house for about a month after moving to henderson we decided ya know maybe we will just get an apartment for a year and see how it goes.. who knows how long we will stay here anyway??? So we got an apartment and about a week later guess what?? The house was done! It finally cleared my dad called and said Janet was getting ready to back out on everything and they informed her they were finally ready to move forward.. So what do you guys want to do... Well together we decided it wasn't the right time and a place to get a house so we said no... got our money back and found our cute little apartment on the very edge of henderson! Well in January of 2012 we decided maybe we should look for a house again... our apartment lease would be up in June and right now is a really good time to buy! So we looked and we looked... and we fell in love with house after house.... and house after house we were 1 offer to late the bank had already accepted someone else's offer. We definitely learned our lesson the first time and decided this time we were only going for foreclosures! Shad Williams was our realtor and he did a really good job at finding houses for us... we were always just 2 seconds behind though if you know what I mean?? 

So I was getting all down on the house hunt after one house fell through that I really loved and I wanted to give up... but John assured me when it was the right house in the right area on the right street it would work out! So I said okay! Well we knew what area we liked.. in fact the exact neighborhood we wanted so we looked at three houses in the same neighborhood! and I found my favorite house out of all the houses we had ever looked at! I didn't let myself get too excited at first because I didn't want to get my hopes up and my heart broken again when we didn't get the house, but this time it was the right house in the right place and after signing the papers today it is officially ours!! The house isn't perfect and it has a lot of little fix me up projects that need to be done, but I can't wait to work on it together and turn it into our first home!! We closed at a little over $100,000 for a 2006 home four bedrooms 2 1/2 bath, and a 2 car garage, with a little bit of a backyard (and I mean a little, but what do you expect in Vegas?? there is 2 community pools and parks in the neighborhood so it all worked out great!)!!!! We signed the papers at noon today and should expect the keys in two days when I'm out of town with my mom at women's conference! I told John he can't go over there without me he has to wait till I get home!