Life of Michele, With Only One 'L': Thankful Day 10 (and new home rennovations!)

DAY 10 I'm thankful for being a homeowner! Hubs and I worked so hard and so long to become home owners. We waivered back and forth on what part of town we wanted to live in, what type of house we wanted, we waivered on building versus buying (and even actually signed a contract to build - which we later pulled out of), the list goes on and on. However, in the end all of the waiting and hard decisions finally paid off! We spent months looking at houses on the internet, driving by them, and even saw a few. However, on our first day out with our amazing realtor (seriously...if you are ever looking to buy or sell you need to use her!!) we found the one! It was the last house that we went to see for the day and it was one we were not even sold on but Jan (the amazing realtor mentioned above) suggested to just see and give it a try so we did. We left both thinking 'yeah, we would probably make an offer on that house.' Come to find out the house already had a pending offer but the sellers were not entirely certain they wanted to accept because it was a contigent offer. The house had multiple showings scheduled the next day and there was a bit of urgency in needing to get our offer. Long story short, we made an offer Sunday afternoon, Sunday evening around 8 we heard back that the sellers had decided to drop the previous offer (which ended up being much stronger than ours) and counter our offer. We countered back around 8:30 and at 9:15 received a call that they had accepted our offer. It was such a crazy, fast experience and one that only God could have orchaestrated. My prayer through the whole process was clarity from God that whatever house we ended up we would know without a shadow of a doubt that it was the house God wanted it is. The amazing time with which everything happened was only God! It was so smooth from beginning to end and we so happy to finally have a place of our own!
We closed on a Friday, got posession on Monday evening and started our rennovations that night! It was a crazy busy week but work all of the work that we put into it! We painted, ripped out kitchen backsplash, had the kitchen re-drywalled, got new appliances, and updated other things in the home! It was a week of hard work but it has all paid off and we are finally settled in! Here is some of the work we have done and some other pictures just because!