So I haven’t posted in my blog for a year and a half. We are back in an odd year, totally skipped an even year for blogging. Chris and I have been married almost two years. We lived in an apartment for a year and four months. As much as I like not having to do much maintenance I really wanted a house. I mean REALLY wanted a house. Our neighbors at the apartment were loud and redneck-y. They had the cops called on them multiple times for loud fights. They were the only ones who had a dog-supposedly a service dog-not sure on that one! Our apartment managers kept saying, ‘yeah one more time and they’re gone’. One more time, two more times, three more times, you get the picture, came and went and they did not. Finally the last straw was –get this- they made their dog poop on the deck. After everything that was the last straw. Who cares about the neighbors having to hear yelling and cursing at 2 am. But by golly better not let the dog deficate on their property… So we started looking at the end of January 2012 at possibly buying a house. And that was a seven month project where we looked at over 60 houses. I fell in love with one, Chris fell in love with one, we both had to agree. Finally shazam! We found not the perfect house (there are no perfect houses) but the best house and we knew we wanted it. Or at least I knew. I turned to Chris and said, ‘puh-leeease can we bid on this? I promise you don’t have to buy me a Christmas gift!’ ( I did end up getting a Christmas gift btw.) It took some juggling but we finally bid just before the fourth of July. We ended our bid with $42. The real estate agents for the seller thought that was funny. No one knew why we ended it that way! They countered we countered again and again. Finally we got the house for a bit over what we wanted to pay. Our wonderful house that we love (and found things wonky done to it.) Well this ends part 1 of catching up a bit. I will chat with you all later!