Buying A House

So we're buying a house! Well we've been actively looking to buy a house for the past 2-3 months. It seems like this journey has been up and down, down down, and then up and down and up again. It's an emotional roller coaster! Even with our changing emotions, God's been faithful to teach us and reveal himself to us during the process.

Here's a list of events from the last few months of our house search:

- We see a short sale house that we really like but aren't sure if we can afford it.

- Weeks go by but in the meantime we find out that we're pre-approved and can put an offer on the house.

- We view the house for a 2nd time and then find out that the day before the house got 3 good offers and they're in the process of ratifying one of the offers. We were too late.

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***Edited on 8/9/11

Sadly this post has been sitting here unpublished for so long! Well since I last wrote this in May, we've put an offer on a house, didn't get it, and then a few days later we discover that we DID get it! So at the end of June we closed on the house and are now moved in!

God is so kind to provide us this house just about a block away from my sister's. We're definitely enjoying the house and sometimes still can't believe it's our house!

I hate to do this, but I'll have write the story of how we got the house at a later time. I only have time to post some quick pictures. The story and more updates will have to come later!