house hunters

if you haven't heard, johnathan moved up to cary about a month ago.  he had several job offers (he's quite the hot commodity around here) and finally settled on cricket's towing and recovery in downtown cary.  it's where we've always thought he should work and i'm really happy it's worked out.  so if you need a tow...give him a call!  :)

well...we obvously can't live with my mom forever.  we've been looking at houses online.  my friend and bridesmaid, sarah, lives in holly springs in a cute little neighborhood.  there's been a house for sale since the fall about 4 houses down from her.  we've joked that the realtor should have an open house one saturday.  well, lucky for us, sarah happened to notice one going on back in march and gave us a call.  johnathan and i drove over and took a look with sarah.  we absolutly fell in love with it.  it's exactly what i've always pictured living in.  johnathan always said "if i'm moving up there, i need to see water from our house."  my response was usually..."yeah, okayyyy.  like we can afford to live by a lake."  but as soon as we walked on the deck and looked to the left...there was a pond.  sure, it's no ocean, but when i shouted out "water!" i knew it was our house.  our thoughts were "we can't possibly buy the 1st house we've looked at!"  that only happens on HGTV!  we decided to meet up with the realtor.  after taking us through the buying process, she took us out to look at some other houses.  after about 6 or 7 houses we were finding what we liked and didn't like.  there seemed to be something missing from every house.  she ended our outing by going back to the 1st house.  as soon as we walked in, i knew it was the one.  there's not really 1 thing about it i'd change.  sure, parking's a little tight and the front yard isn't huge but the back yard is.  it's further away from school but sarah and i can carpool. 

so...after weeks of going back and forth on what to do and working out an offer (i felt like i was on HGTV's property virgins), i'm excited to say that it's our house!  we're so excited!