btw, we bought a house

Way back in May we decided to take advantage of Obama's $8,000 giveaway to new homebuyers and began looking for our first home. We found crappy houses in the best area/schools, and perfect houses in crappy areas/schools, so we negotiated by getting a pretty good house in a pretty good school district. The house would be just about perfect if it just had a little bit more of a yard to it. I love our floorplan and all the space (2,000+ sq/ft after living in under 1,300), but the garage is on the back of the house so we only have a narrow side yard. The search was really stressful and not quite as fun as I had anticipated, but in the end I think we got a good place. Here's what it looked like the first day we saw it when we went with our realtor. We closed on August 10, and moved in on the 22nd. Madilyn absolutely loves this house, it's kind of funny. Shortly after we closed on the house and were sure it was ours Madilyn randomly gave me a huge hug. When I asked why, she said it was for buying the house. She did the same thing with Eric, and has said she wants to stay in this house forever. I don't know about forever, but it's nice to feel a little more settled for a while.