All thanks to the crashed economy....

Wow! Momentous stuff going on here right now! Since the economy is SOOO bad, and the market is absolutely flooded with foreclosed homes, house prices are falling! Yay! That's great for us, not so great for those of you losing equity. So after 8 years of marriage, and three kids, we are finally in the process of buying our first home! It's up in Mt. Vernon, so a little ways away from everything but the tulips and Canada (if you're going to the Vancouver Olympics, we're on the way there!)

So the house is small, and kinda old, but it means we can afford it! And it gets us in the door to be able to have equity towards something bigger and better down the road. The big advantage this home has is the HUGE yard. Up here if you buy a newer house you get about three feet of land, all the way around the house. Whoopie... the kids can play marbles. But this house is on 1/4 acre, so there is tons of space for the kids to run around and drive each other nuts instead of me. There's tons of storage space too (garage, carport, and two other storage rooms behind the garage, kind of shed like)

Here are some pictures, they aren't great, but better than nothing!


The front


Part of the back yard


The rest of the back yard (and the old lady who lives there right now, lol)


The back porch. Anybody wanna BBQ?


So we're saying our prayers, and crossing our fingers and toes that nothing happens to make the deal fall through! It's passed inspection, and still needs to pass the appraiser. Then the financing has to all still work out as planned (they tell us that stuff is so fluid right now you never know what might change!) But we're hoping!