Our First Place

Our life has been full of so many changes the past few months. It has been an interesting combination of totally exhilarating and completely exhausting. The emotional roller coaster has been running overtime!

One of the more exciting changes in our life is that we are going to become homeowners! After renting for four years we were getting pretty sick and tired of throwing our money away every month. Once we left our apartment in Blacksburg to head up back to good ol' northern Virginia, we knew we wanted to look for something more permanent and, well, ours!

After searching high and low for our perfect place, we made the choice to build a new single family home. The upside to this (and a really fun part, too!) is that we get to choose everything - our floors, cabinets, countertops, upgrades, location of outlets, basically anything that is within our budget to change. And, when we move in, it will be clean and pretty and brand new! The downside is that it takes a lot of time to build a house from scratch...and that is how we've wound up crammed into one of the upstairs rooms (my brother's old room, to be exact) at my parent's house. Don't get me wrong, I am super grateful to my parents for allowing us to live here rent free. However, it is a little tough to go from living on your own in a two bedroom townhouse (albeit a rental) to packing all your stuff into one room and being around your parents all.the.time.

We can't wait until December, when our house will hopefully be finished. For now, here are some progress pictures!

Start of construction, early October...digging the hole where our house will go!

House progress Oct. 15th...foundation walls are in!

View of the neighborhood