New House

John and I made a last minute house hunting trip just before Christmas. We needed to find a home quickly because our home sold in 3 weeks. We weren't prepared for it to sell that quickly. John had been house hunting for several weeks and narrowed down where we should live according to the schools.

Two days before Christmas we wrote up an offer on this home:

It was a short-sale/pre-foreclosure. Short sale is not short for the buyer! We waited almost 2 months to hear back from the bank if they were going to sell the home to us because they were losing money on the sale. We finally closed at the end of February and moved in. We stayed in our new home for 4 more weeks without any of our household goods because it would be easier to paint and finish off a room in the basement before everything was delivered. We were able to borrow some basic essential's from John's sisters (Emily and Sarah) and a couple of people from church.