Homeowners!

That's right! It is finally official! We closed on our house on May 13! Goodbye noisy neighbors up till 2 a.m., goodbye walking a mile from our assigned parking spot to our front door and goodbye wondering if those people under the hood of that car are do-it-yourself mechanics or wanted for grand theft auto!

Linn, Evan, Tony and Rachel drove down today to visit, and we took Evan and Linn with us to sign our mountain of papers to get the keys to our new house!

On Saturday, we immediately began painting. There were some...interesting...colors in our house, and those colors did not fit in with our current color scheme with furniture, etc, so before we moved in we wanted to get A) New wall colors, and B) New carpet! This is what we started out with (WARNING: those with sensitive eyes and skin may need to put on sunglasses and some SPF 30)...

...and here it is after the paint! Please ignore the mess in the pictures, we have still been in constant project-mode.

You may notice that we didn't get new carpet in the family room--we are going to put in tile instead for our next project. But the carpet in the bedrooms and the front room looks awesome now! We are really excited to finally be in our first home, and to have plenty of room and a private pool now for our visitors (hint, hint)!