So we bought a house!

After 5 years of living in VA and renting homes, we finally did it. Let's face it. John and I have way too many kids to be renting a home and attempting to keep it nice enough through the lease to get our security deposit back in full.

Now, don't get me wrong...We like to have nice things and keep our home nice but if something breaks in a rental, like say a shelf being pulled off the wall from hanging on it or a whole top floor being flooded from putting a whole roll of toilet paper in the toilet, the urge and want to fix it isn't quite there.

For one thing, you don't feel like fixing a home that does not belong to you. Second of all, you are already paying the landlords mortgage, so you don't really have the desire to spend more money.

So anyways, our previous lease ended and we decided it was time to buy a home and make it a permanent move.

While searching on Redfin.com (awesome site with actual mls listings that you can browse for free), we found 'the one.' It stole our breath away and we were done with our search.

We decided to drive by it first before considering moving forward with it and the process of buying a home.

It was love at first site for me. It is so hard to find a modern home in Northern VA. Most of the homes in the area are a big square box, colonial, or Victorian. This house had just the look and feel that we wanted. It has the bones and potential to be that modern pad we have always wanted to own.

So we bought it!