House

Alright so in November Chase and I began really looking at houses again.  We had ourselves a new agent and were searching in relatively new areas.  One of the houses we wanted to see was in a town called New Baltimore, Chase found it because it has a 5 car garage.  AND since he's a car guy with a Porsche sitting in Utah waiting to have a full restoration done, then of course we HAD to see it ;)  I wasn't being of much help during the whole -searching for houses online to look at in person- process, I couldn't really say no.  Well it's a good thing because after looking at it we decided that we would be happy with putting an offer on it.  So the next day we let our agent know and lo and behold if we wanted to make an offer it had to be in by 5pm that day because the house already had an offer on it and the listing agent and his client were making their decision at 5!  Holy crap, talk about pressure!  We had been hoping to be able to negotiate and what not but instead we had to make the decisions lickity split.  To add pressure we were babysitting that same night which put another time crunch on us.  Well thankfully we got it all done, even if it included taking our printer/scanner over to our friends house so we could send papers while we babysat.
So we put in our offer and wala they accepted ours, not without countering ours though of course, to which we countered back.
Anyway long story short.  We closed on the house 11/25/13 and had keys to our new home.  We didn't end up moving in until 12/14/13 though because we went to Utah right after Thanksgiving.  Which meant that we got home from Utah and ended up packing up the apartment in 1 day so that we could move the next.  It was a whirlwind but we were glad we got it done.  Poor Chase ended up doing most of the work since I was pregnant, not feeling great and so forth.  The day we moved a big snow storm decided to help us out ;)  Which moving with a lot of snow and having white-ish carpet in both the apartment and house sure made me happy for wet shoes.  Anyway with the help of a couple guys from the ward we got ourselves moved out and then moved in.
Having the house has been really nice.  Being a home owner is a little stressful just because were now in charge of everything.  But so far it seems to all be worth it.  Plus we have a lot of extra bedrooms right now so having company visit is fun :)