Chris and I moved into our first apartment in October of 2009, a month and a week before our wedding. We lived there for our first year of marriage, and will always remember it as our first home together. However, it was such a transitional year, it never really felt 100% like home.
We moved in October 2010 to the suburbs. Our second apartment had two bedrooms, but I would grow to hate the small kitchen. We spent two years in our second apartment, and looking back, I will probably say that is the first place we felt like a "family". We really loved our little apartment, but after two years, we knew it was time for that next step.....
We were not ready to buy. There are just so many options in the metro Atlanta, and we are still just not positive where we want to be permenantly. So, we decided to find a house to rent. We searched online for weeks. We then spent a few weeks riding around looking at houses from the outside. Then, we finally made the leap at set some appointments for a showing. We saw several houses we really liked, and would have been happy in, but we just did not feel 100% sure about anything. In the second to last neighborhood we were in, we toured two houses. On our way out, Chris noticed someone putting a "For Rent" sign in from of a pretty house with a stone front and a balcony. We both agreed it was probably out of our budget, but jotted down the address anyway.
The next day, on my way home from work, I took a detour to go by the house with the stone front and wrote down the phone number on the sign. I called from the driveway to find out the house was practically rented. Someone had seen it that first day and had put an application on it. However, if I wanted I could come by and see if the next day just in case something fell through.
Well, even though I felt confident I was setting myself up for disappointment, I went by anyway. Chris was at work, but the house was suprisingly in our budget, and in a good neighborhood.
When I walked in, I knew, that for the first time since leaving my parents house 3 years before, I was home. I called Chris panicking! I did not want to make a deposit or apply for a house he had never seen, but I just KNEW this was it, and didnt want to walk away and loose it to someone else. Chris talked me off the ledge, and reminded me if it was meant to be, it would happen.
Chris went by and saw it without me the next day, and after a few more bumps and curves, we signed the lease.
We hope this our last move for awhile. We moved the weekend before Thanksgiving and have already had many wonderful memories in our house. We look forward to many more.
We spent our 3 year anniversary in our house!
Very excited to have our anniversary dinner on our dining room table
Lucy really enjoyed watching the fire at Christmas!
For our Birthday's , my parents bought us awesome patio furniture for our giant deck - a craigslist find!!
With our Christmas money from Chris's parents, we bought our grill! So excited to finally be able to have grilled food again. One of these things you really miss in apartment life.
I was excited so get draperies and some new decor for our dining room. The table was built for my Granny by my Dad over 30 years ago. He rebuilt it for Cail about 10 years ago, and now it gets a new moment in the sun!
Lucy enjoys watching the squirrels run around on the deck. We tried to tell her that she is part squirrel, but she does not seem to care!
So, that's our little Early 2013 update. There really is No place like home!!!
