Spontaneous

So, Ryan and I like to be spontaneous sometimes. Case in Point: Christmas eve at around 3pm I asked Ryan what he thought about heading to his parents home (an 8 hour drive) for Christmas. We stewed on it for a bit, and decided sure why not let's suprise them. So at 6pm (we didn't stew long I guess) we were packed and ready to go out the door. Headed up and decided we better contact his sister to help us get a hotel and arrived at about 2am. Showed up Christmas morning to his other sisters house and suprised everyone! It was a blast! Short trip, but so worth it, to spend time with family!

Well, we decided to do it again only this time something completely different. Usually we plan any major decisions in our life well. When to have a baby, where to live etc...we take at least some time to plan. So back in November we had to decide if we were going to sign another year lease on the house we've been renting for a few years. We figured yeah we'll sign another year we still have 2 years of school, and plan on sticking around anyway. So we signed away!

In January I sort of just out of the blue said to Ryan "do you want to see what we'd get approved for if we were to buy right now?" He said sure and away we went. Not fully recognizing the housing market at the time (because we didn't really pay attention) we went in. Got pre-approved and started looking because we got approved for a considerable amount more than anticipated! This was less than a month ago. Here we are a few weeks later, and we are in the process of closing on a house that we should be moved into (if all goes according to plan) by the end of March! Crazy!! I can't believe how everything has turned out from my moment of being spontaneous and wanting to know if we'd even qualify for a home.

We looked at MANY homes, and never felt great about them even some homes that we really loved. We went back to a home that we've actually really liked since moving to Idaho almost 3 years ago. When we first were moving to Idaho we talked about buying in this neighborhood, that is just a few blocks from where we are, but decided against it. Thank heavens we didn't buy then! So, we are buying a brand new home in this neighborhood, in the same ward, Tanner will go to the same school, and we are so excited! We are still waiting on the final go ahead on financing, so I guess it still technically could fall through, but have been told it is highly unlikely.

I'll post pics later. Sometimes it really pays to be spontaneous!

Oh and by the way, the owner of the home we are renting has agreed to let us out of the lease, and is not asking us to clean carpets, paint, or anything. Will allow us to get our deposit back and has no problems with us breaking contract with 8 months still left on it. We really lucked out when we moved into this house, the owner has been fantastic!