We are official homeowners!

What a day it's been! Our nightmarish real estate adventure continued today at the closing, of course. No, I didn't punch the lights out of anyone (like I should have), but the sellers did not bring enough money to closing. SO...long story short, they got mad, stormed off to the bank, came back with a check and voila...we own a house! We went over to the house and took some "before" pictures for your enjoyment. I will post "after" pictures as we check things off our to-do list. Hoosier LOVED his new home. He went up and down the stairs about a million times and kept wanting to go back outside to see his new neighbor friend. I think he'll adjust just fine to the new house, however, he's going to keep us on our toes with the stairs thing. He doesn't do stairs very well. He gets going down them too fast, skips a bunch of steps and somehow just ends up at the bottom...good thing we have a good vet for all the broken bones he's probably going to wind up with!

Here's a look at the front (doesn't look like much from the outside but the inside is really nice!).

Here's a view from the backyard of the deck and hot tub.

Here's the living room and fireplace. The hardwoods are actually a little more beat up than they look in the picture so that's why we're refinishing them.

Here's the dining room.

Half of the kitchen.

A view of the master bedroom (which looks identical to the other 2 bedrooms).

And...Don's favorite part of the house...the finished basement.