Monday, May 22, 2006

Home Sweet Home!!

Although we can hardly believe that it's actually done, we have the papers sitting on our computer desk to prove it . . . we bought a house today! It seems a little hard to comprehend, especially since we saw our house for the first time less than 48 hours before it officially became ours. That sounds a little scary, but we are so excited!
On August 1, we will be moving into our cute little bungalow in the southwest of St Catharines, in an up-and-coming neighborhood. The house is right across the street from a park with a playground and a baseball diamond. It's a cozy little place, with three bedrooms, one bathroom (with a claw-foot tub!), a kitchen, living room and dining room, and a full unfinished basement. We love the beautiful hardwood floors which are throughout the house, as well as thick wood trim around all the doorways - it certainly has lots of character! It's 10 kilometers from Heritage, which is fantastic, and it's also on the bus route which is wonderful. After looking at a good number of other homes, it was exciting to walk into this one and realize very quickly that this was "the one". We are in love! August is so far away . . .
Ahhh! There's all this excess energy and excitement bundled up inside of us that it's hard to keep from bouncing around the walls, and it's pretty much impossible to concentrate on anything. 71 days till we move!!


7 comments:

rebekah said...

you got it! congrats!!! i love the pictures.

Rod and Bec said...

Wow!!! What a beautiful house!
Bec

Karen said...

:D congrats guys!!!!

It looks beautiful, I'm excited to visit you there! :)

see you saturday!

Rachel said...

yay! congrats guys! I'm so happy for you! I can't wait to see it in person! (hope i'm invited! ;)). Marty wants me to let you know that he thinks it's a beautiful house (and i concur!). Can't wait to see you soon Rach! love ya!
Rachel

amymom24 said...

Congratulations Vanderdeens! Home ownership takes a bit of getting used to, but after living at Redeemer - you will be in heaven:) Have a great time finally settling into a place you can call your own!

Anonymous said...

Dear Mike and Rach,
Wow!!! It is beautiful! I can hardly wait to hear more about it!!! Don't think of it as 60 some odd days of waiting, but 60 some odd days to buy house accessories!! You have to space it out nicely so its not so hard on the pocketbook!
Rachel, your blog is very funny! You are a GREAT writer!

Lauren said...

Hey, you!
I was just wondering what your Blogger setup is - like, the layout/template dealie. And how'd you rig up all those cool quotes on the side? I've always wondered and never known and been a little bit jealous because mine doesn't look anything like that.