Home Sweet Home

***Be prepared for lots of pictures :) ***

In 2010 Andrew and I moved to Madison because he got a job at the infamous EPIC.  Now two years later, we are home owners.  Before we made the move, I always said "I want a house.  I don't want to live in an apartment.  If I'm going to move, I'm moving into a house."  Well, you can imagine how that went.  We moved into an apartment.
Now it wasn't the worst thing in the world.  For being my first apartment (that's right, first.  Mom and Dad's to dorms to sorority house, back to Mom and Dad's), it really wasn't all that bad.  But I knew it wouldn't last forever, and it didn't.

We started looking for houses in January and found a few that we loved, but we weren't ready to put in an offer, and they went fast.   We spent two months going to showings every Saturday.  It got exhausting.  After putting an offer in on one house that was rejected, we found our dream house.  Well, so did three other people.  After putting in an offer and waiting a weekend, then adding a last minute counter offer, it was ours!  And 45 days later on May 20, 2011, we signed on the dotted line and got the keys.  We were home owners!

We own this!  CrAzY!

Here are some pictures from before we moved in.
THEN

Kitchen

Looking into the dining area and living room.

Looking into kitchen
You know that blah color in the kitchen went out immediately!

Family room
It looks totally different now!

Guest bedroom

Guest Bedroom

Loft

Master bathroom

Master bedroom
Much to everyone's dismay
(apparently this color was a big hit with our friends?) It didn't stay :)

Sun porch

back of the house

deck :)

Dining area with our new rug
(And baby Maddie)

Kitchen with bright blue walls :)

Our IKEA family room

Lucy showing off one of her favorite sun spots in the living room

Family room

Family and living room

guest bathroom

loft/office which is not exciting at all

master bath

master bedroom
Who refinished those dressers? They are beautiful! ;)

Master

guest bedroom

Guest bedroom

My favorite part of the house: an "engagement" gift from the Nichols which is proudly displayed in the front hallway

Daddy and Lucy

My babies

Baby Maddie sleeping with her tennis ball :)

It's hard to believe that it's already been a year since we signed on the dotted line.  And to think that in that year we bought a house, got married (twice! but that's another post), and got another dog.  And there's still so much to do!