We bought a house!

I am so behind on posting things because of how hectic the past month has been but now I can officially say that we bought a house!! We had plans in the works to build our custom "dream" home, but after 5 months, only a hole in the ground, and "unforeseen costs" that increased our home $30,000 we opted to cancel and just find and buy an existing home.  It was quite and roller coaster ride and still we are still currently fighting to get our deposit back with the help of an attorney, but at least we will be moving into a house of our own in a week and a half.

Our House Hunt:

The end of June when we decided to cancel our contract with our builder we then set up quite the task for Natalie to find us our perfect home.  Lance and I were dead set on the east side, but opted to look at newer homes on the west side of Salt Lake County.  Walking through numerous houses I was trying to be positive and optimistic while Lance was rushing through each property nit-picking out the smallest flaws.  Needless to say it was an extremely frustrating process. A week into our house hunt we found the cutest house located in Sandy/Draper on a street called Cinnamon Ridge which we kept calling "the cinnamon bear house."  We quickly put in an offer, but with the house only being on the market for 3 days they received multiple offers and ours was not picked.  Discouraged, we continued to seek out a place to call home.  Lance found "home" in a new build located in Herriman, while I wasn't in love with the floor plan nor the square footage.  I fell in love with a remodeled rambler up in Bountiful, but it's location would make for quite an extensive commute to my work.  Two weeks into our search I was sitting at work one morning pulling listings in the Riverton/South Jordan area and fell upon a home located in Riverton on Shawnee Drive.  The house looked upgraded and was built in 2012.   It wasn't until I viewed the pictures of the backyard that I knew this could be a house for us.  I immediately texted Lance and told him to pull the listing meanwhile our agent, Natalie had also found the house that morning and sent me the link.  I told Lance we needed to go see the house the second I got off of work and luckily we set things up for when we did because 8 hours later, 12 hours after the home had been listed it already had 2 offers and we were pulling into the driveway to see the home for ourselves.  With a quick scan of the home we knew it was exactly what we had been looking for.  The floor plan was extremely similar to the home we has been building and was already fenced, landscaped, and came with a trampoline!  We then locked up and rushed over to Natalie's to write up our offer and that following morning we got our acceptance letter!  After completing sellers and buyers due diligence we are now just waiting for our loan paperwork to get its okay through underwriting and we will be good to close a week from TOMORROW! AH exciting day!  

Here are pictures of the home (with the seller's furnishings...)

 [my new house]

 [front living room. view from front door]

 [front living room]

 [dining room looking into the kitchen]

 [kitchen]

 [family room]

 [master]

 [main floor powder room]

 [upstairs "kids" bathroom]

 [master bathroom with walk-in closet and separate toilet room]

 [master shower and soaker tub]

 [backyard]

I can't wait to move in, get it clean to my liking and start decorating it and making it feel like home!