Closing Day

The bottom picture is the view from the back yard! We didn't get everything on our house wish list, but we did get this Great view of Timp which was at the top of the list! We can't wait to have bar-b-ques at our house, now we just need a great deck to finish it off!

Well we have finally joined the club of "Home Owner". Today, Friday the 13th (not sure if we should be superstitious or not) we closed on our first house!!! Yeah for us! We have been looking and patiently waiting for more than a year, but our patience has paid off and prices have dropped over a $100k and we found a great deal on a house. The people that live there right now are 80 years old and are moving back to Vermont where they are from. I can not believe that they are doing this move all by themselves, no kids or grandkids to help them. The lady, Kitty, is an Antique Collector and has more furniture and paintings and just stuff than anyone ever should have. I wish we had pictures of the inside of the house before they move all their stuff out, it's amazing. It is hard for Mark to picture just how much room we are going to have when all of their stuff is out. This has been the longest month waiting to close and move in but it is finally here and we are so excited!! We have been shopping and looking at paint colors and the whole works. Lots of things that we want to do to the house... This week we went to the Utah Valley Parade of Homes to get ideas. Oh my are there some amazing houses out there!! WOW!! After leaving the 13,000sf home in Alpine we were glad that we will never have that much house to furnish or clean, but it was very fun to see, it makes our 3600sf feel small! So that is my news of the day. So far I only have a couple of pictures of the outside, I can't wait to see it empty on Monday and take more pictures. And I am so excited for my mom and dad to be here to help us move in and get all set up.