Our New House

Well, we did it.  We bought a house!  I won't bore anyone with too many details but lets just say that it took a while to find a good house in our financial range, we were holding our breath for about a month waiting for it to close, and while it is in Forest Grove (which we never thought was a place we would live long term) we love it AND feel very blessed by Heavenly Father.  I want to make sure to add that last part in there because Wes and I both have agreed over and over again that we feel not only that we were guided to buy this home but we also feel like it is the perfect little home for our family.  (There were some serious doozies we had looked at over the last year).

 Here we are signing our papers!  

Totally exciting and yet completely unnerving.  :)

This is the house on Thanksgiving day.  Wes had just pulled in with a load of wood...did I mention we have a fireplace!  Oh yeah!  

But in reality we had actually moved in two weeks before, I just hadn't thought to take a picture of the outside.

  It was at night, so it was dark. 

Getting the keys!

Exciting!

Here's our cute little family excited for our new home!

 (Don't worry Jared and Sadie were excited.  Jared just didn't want to have to wait to take a picture before he could go back and explore some more and Sadie, well, she's still working on how to smile for pictures).

The kissing at the threshold of our first home. 

 Come on, everyone's got to do it, right?  :) 

I'd like to say he carried me into our home but when Jared finally figured out how to take a decent picture I was crushing Wes and he was happy to just put me down.  Haha!

We love our happy home!