What a Year!!!!

2012 has brought so many things into our lives already, it is hard to believe that it's only March! So many unexpected decisions were made at the beginning of this year. Though our plan was to rent at least one more year, God seemed to have another plan for us. We walked into our realtor's office in search of rental homes within a certain price range and with a list of "wants". After reviewing our list and asking questions, we saw that our options in rentals were extremely limited in the area. Then he asked us why we didn't consider buying, and told us about the benefits as well as how "now was the time to buy".

We were very hesitant at first, but decided we would think about it. We continued to look for rental homes, but as we thought and prayed about it, it became more clear that we should go ahead and start looking into buying a home. Our first home! We prayed about it some more, and then, we did it - we started the process to buy our first home! 

This all happened around mid-January. Since then, we have looked at over 30 houses, talked to 4 different banks to compare rates, signed what seems like a million papers, dreamed, prayed, worried, talked, and just stared into space because we can't believe we are actually buying a house. We feel like such adults! (because obviously getting married and having a child wasn't "adult" enough!) And here we are, packing up our belongings, waiting for all the closing events to happen, and deciding where we'll stay between the time we have to move out of the apartment we are currently living in and when we can move into our home... OUR home! WOW!!!

Today we finally decided that we had to do some serious packing, and i think we did a great job!

Bug has helped us some with some light packing too. He is really such a great helper, and a fun one too! He has helped me put books in boxes, and likes to help me tape the boxes (and then try to take the tape off!)

Isn't' he the cutest little helper EVER?

We would really appreciate prayers for all the closing procedures to go super smoothly! I will post an update as soon as we hear more.

Hugs!