It's official!!

....so I can finally talk about it. We are the owners of an amazing house! It has all happened very quickly, but we are thrilled. At the beginning of September, Matt began to talk to a co worker who expressed interest in buying his first place in our area. We casually invited him over to check our place out, and amazingly, we settled upon a plan for him to buy the place without even putting it on the market and buy owner! This put us quickly into house hunting mode. Luckily, our friend Mark is also a real estate agent (if you are in Atlanta and buying or selling, you MUST use Mark- he rocks!). After looking at many houses, one stalled contract and one cancelled contract (long story there for another time), we found this house on its 2nd day on the market. The previous owners renovated it over 11 years and had pictures to show the transformation. Their love and care of the house was just so evident, and the process went quickly and pretty smoothly.

After a fast week of packing and getting the townhouse ready to go (we had to fix a few small things, which was more of a pain than I had planned but now I know of several good handymen if you need one!), we closed on both places last Thursday! We literally began moving stuff in about an hour after closing, and continued until Saturday when we had movers do the big stuff. Thanks to my mom, we had extra help with packing and some light moving. The first weekend in the place did feel a little strange- Matt described it as like living in a hotel. We have a lot of boxes to unpack, but slowly things are settling down and it does feels like home to me now. We are just over a mile from our townhouse, so not much has changed in terms of our commutes or where we hang out, which is just what we wanted!

Here are a few pics from before we moved in....If you are in town please stop by anytime you may be in the area. And, if you are out of town, please come and visit us- we now have a guest room (we just need to buy a bed, but you'll be our excuse!)