We have a house!!!

We can't believe it. They accepted our offer within 4 hours. That's crazy. We celebrated with champagne and thought through our game plan.... scrub the walls, rip out the carpets, spackle, repaint, refinish the wood floors, rip out the overgrown evergreens crowding the front porch. Eventually, redo the kitchen and bathroom, perhaps add a new bathroom downstairs, maybe add stairs and refinish the attic, demolish the back deck Wow. The options are endless... and we've only been thinking about it for 24 hours. alas, patience part 3... things can wait until we have the time and money to do them all. Have to remember that we can't do all of it in the first year. We close November 16th. Three days before Lent arrives.

We have 10 days to find anything wrong with it -- if so, we can back out. Our realtor (who is a good friend of Sara Burke's dad) knows a great home inspector who is busy until next week. We asked what we should do... i.e. do we postpone our trip to san fran? He said go and have a great time. So, as things are falling insanely into place, we have purchased a house and are heading on our honeymoon to the Russian River Valley and San Fran on Friday morning after our frisbee league the night before. Who's life is this?

In other news, we got to clean gutters! Leaves + water = awesome soil in the making. I think I'm going to love gardening up here. I don't even know where to begin. My head is spinning.

To all of you that posted from yesterday -- I've been nervous about all the repairs that need to be made, but you're so right... we're going to love this.

-L