An overdue update

Wow! I see it's been a long time since I posted. This summer went so fast; I can't believe we are a week away from October! Nate and spent most of the summer working and searching for a house. We have been looking at houses since April trying to find the "perfect" house. We probably looked at every single house in our price range in the Skagit Valley and none stuck out to us. We wanted a good investment house--one that needed some TLC and updating. Well, we finally found that house! It was actually staring at us from down the street the entire time. To make a long story short, we submitted an offer for a vacant house near my parent's. The owner passed away last year and his elderly siblings live on the East Coast. They knew it needed lots of work but couldn't do it themselves. So they accepted our offer and several weeks later the house is officially ours!

We are very excited to have finally found a house although our move-in date won't be for a while yet. We have lots of work to do before moving in...remove popcorn ceiling, paint all the walls and replace all the flooring. That's just a small list of what needs to be done. It is really nice that it is close to where we are living so we can work on it whenever we have time. The house is 2-story, 3 bd/2 bath with an additional family room in the daylight basement. It is on a 3/4 acre lot, so Nate is very excited about room to have a garden and a dog.

About that dog...we are getting a puppy next weekend. We found Newfoundland/Lab mix puppies that had been rescued and put our name down to get one. Nate's family had a lab/newfie mix growing up and it was their favorite dog ever, so they are all excited we are getting one. So this weekend I should have pictures of our puppy!

Well, I will hopefully do a better job keeping the blog updated and get some pictures on here.