Homeowners

Welp, it looks like we're homeowners.  We go on Friday to sign the papers, and then can pick out the colors of the cabinets, floors, and countertop.  We have to pick by the 14th or they decide for us- good thing we decided today haha :)  They even let us walk around the wooden house that is just framed. They said it will probably be done around June.

Like I mentioned before, it is quite small- about the size of our duplex now.  We just thought that since it would cost about the same to actually OWN it and not have the yelling neighbor, and be able to paint, and be putting money into our own stuff, it was worth it.

It is a cute little neighborhood on the street which is the border of Fredrickson and Spanaway, on the Spanaway side (yeah, we live in the hood now-gonna go buy a bullet proof vest).  They are building a ton of new houses on our side of the street, and the other side is completely horse farms.  It is actually kind of cute and we have a view of the mountain.  It is a gated neighborhood with sidewalks and a little park thing with a big toy and basketball hoop.  They are still building it but from the houses i saw, i got a peek and they looked like there are a lot of kids for Sawyer to play with :)  We are excited to find new starter homes.  It seems like a lot of the newer houses have like 5 bedrooms and cost at least $250,000 which is not in our budget yet.

The downsides is that it is like 15 minutes away from the places we are used to, and are going to have to start going to the Spanaway stores (I have an attachment to Puyallup) and our driveway, being the smallest house style, is only one car wide so we will be moving around cars.  It is also in the Bethel school district, which might be fine for elementary, but not sure I want Sawyer going there for long so depending on how long we live there, we might have to use my parent's address so we can go to the Puyallup school district.

Things I like is that the kitchen is big, there is a harry potter closet, and the bathroom upstairs is bigger.  We have the plan with the bathroom going to the hallway and the master bedroom, but that is better than now because our bedroom now doesnt lead to a bathroom.

I feel so grown up and accomplished.  Married, baby, new car, own house... I am pretty excited :)

Here is the plan: