Exciting!

I was able to get my computer cleaned up a bit, and my super amazing computer genius brother in law got me an external hard drive so I've been able to move some pictures over to that. So my Monterey and San Diego pictures are on the computer, and I'll be posting some tomorrow, most likely.
However, while that's just absolutely thrilling, I know, that's not the exciting news. The exciting news is that..... We put an offer on a house today!!!! We looked at two more houses this morning, and decided we wanted to try to get the second one we looked at. So we ran all over the place today to get all sorts of forms filled out - the mortgage company, the city of Lemoore to fill out the employee housing grant (the reason we're able to buy a house!), the realtors, back to the mortgage company - and we placed our offer! We'll find out in a few days if our offer is accepted. Unfortunately, someone else placed an offer today as well, while we were meeting with the mortgage company our realtor called us and someone had just placed their offer. So, we'll see... We would love to get this house, though. It's a 3 bed 2 bath on a little cul de sac in the gated area of the Lemoore golf course, which is pretty dang cool. Both bathrooms have double sinks, tubs, and the master bath has an oversized tub and two shower heads :) There are a few things we'd like to change, but it's stuff we could deal with until we could afford to make changes. We'd need to replace the carpet eventually, but if we gave it a good cleaning we'd be able to put that off for a bit. It's in good condition, just stained. The living room flooring is just the concrete - but it was refinished and painted, so it looks okay, it's just kinda weird. Also, when you walk in the front door, there is a wall in front of you, which is fine, except that there are huge mirrors on the entire wall, which is just a little weird, so we'd take those off. Overall, though, we really liked the house, and we'd love to get it! I'll let you know in a few days if our offer was accepted or not! We know we'll end up in the right place, so we won't be heart broken if it falls through, but it would be really cool to get it.

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