We Got the Keys!

The day after Christmas was closing day on our first home! It felt a little surreal, but we were so excited! Scott and I took Boston to his friend Rock's house, and then met with our realtor (Scott's friend), and the title company to start the fun filled hours of signing paper after paper. 

The never ending stack of papers finally disappeared, and we got the keys to our first home! 

The rest of the week was a blur! We started the move-in process by sealing our tile grout and countertops. We closed on a Wednesday, and started taking loads over each time we went to our house. It was so nice only having to move about a mile away. Our big moving day was the Saturday following closing day. We borrowed two pick up trucks from Scott's friends, and a small trailer from a neighbor in our ward. After a few more trips for all the big things on Saturday, we were officially moved in. We were grateful to Scott's friends for helping us move all the big things. Nothing broke in the moving process! We slept in our home for the first time that Saturday night. We feel so blessed and we really love our home!

Boston got to practice riding his bike in our garage the night we closed. It's so awesome having a garage! 

This is our first garage since we've been married. It's amazing how much the simplest things about having a home make us so happy. I was in heaven the first time I went grocery shopping after moving into our house. I went to Costco and didn't have to haul everything up a flight of stairs, and everything fit in our trunk because the huge jogging stroller was in our garage instead of the trunk. I even got to buy toilet paper in bulk because we had somewhere to put it. I also bought a couple boxes of cereal and they actually fit in our pantry! Another simple thing that makes me so happy about our house is having a recycling bin and a big garbage can in our garage. We didn't have a dumpster at the apartment complex. We had a small kitchen garbage that we left outside our door and the valet waste people picked it up. I never knew where to put big things, or all the cardboard boxes from Costco because valet waste only took the things that were bagged up, and they didn't have recycling. Now I get to walk out to the garage and stick things in our bins whenever I want. :)

The next few weeks after closing on our home were really crazy and hectic. Poor Boston was sick, I started a new job teaching some classes at the gym (fun, but bad timing for my first days!), we had to get our apartment all fixed up and ready for check-out, and we needed to get a bunch of random things at the store like garbage cans, door mats, and blinds. Scott and I were going non-stop all day every day for a few weeks. Then we would crash, so exhausted around midnight, or later every night. Our New Year's Eve celebration this year was just a casual mention that it was New Year's Eve, and maybe we would get a chance to sit down and make some goals in a few days. Ha ha. We didn't care though because even though we were busy, and Boston was sick, we were so happy to be in our house, and we're still enjoying getting settled.