The long catch up/OUR OWN HOME!

 So life has been a little hectic lately! I am so sorry for leaving you on such a sad post for so long!!!

So we had a great Christmas and the rest of 2012. We got up at 2:45am on Christmas morning to surprise my family in highland. We showed up before they got up so that they could see what Santa brought, US! My parents didn't even know we were coming that early they thought we were coming later in the morning. It was great to be able to surprise them like that!

In February Curt and I kind of toyed with the idea of buying a house. We thought about it and how a down payment would be cheaper than rent or about the same, we would be paying ourselves, we could have pets, do whatever we felt like with the house, and be one step closer to being grown ups.
We looked out in Hyrum and didn't find anything that we really liked, there was a house in Clarkston that was down the street from our friends that moved out there a few months prior. We weren't sure we would like the commute into Logan but we thought we would look at the house. I fell in love! We loved that Clarkston is a small town, we could have horses; we could begin our dream of starting a farm/ranch. We made an offer on Tuesday it was accepted Wednesday morning and we signed the contract on Wednesday afternoon! WOW talk about fast! After we got the inspection we were informed that the foundation was crumbling and we had to back out because it was too expensive to fix... :( we were heartbroken, we already had our apartment rented out and we had no place to go. Luckily Curt's sister Connie lives in Providence and loves us enough to take us in for 3 weeks, until we could find something else out. We found another house we liked, it was more money but a much better house with more land! It technically wouldn't be on the market until May 1st (we found the house on April 30th). So we moved out of his sisters house and borrowed Curt's dads Fifth Wheel camping trailer and lived in a trailer park for another 3 weeks! Ugh... I was so fed up with not having our own 'home'/place to live. Finally we signed the contract and moved in May 11th. Almost 3 months from the time we packed our first box!

I don't know why this is sideways but this is our first box packed

Front of the house!

Front Room!

Kitchen

Dining room with my gorgeous red wall I painted!

2nd bathroom

Extra room that is doubling for a shed right now until we build one

Guest room

Office/craft room

Master Bedroom

Master Bathroom

Mud Room/back door

So we are loving the house! So much space and yard, we live on 5/8 of an acre. In a small country town with wonderful people! We couldn't be happier to be where we are now!