Little by little

Well we are slowly and I mean slowly getting settled. There is so much we want to do to this house and there just never seems to be enough time in the day. Ben is working so much that the last thing he wants to do when he gets home is more work. The weather is great now and with the kids in soccer and the holidays coming up I will be lucky to get the Christmas tree up. Don't get me wrong we have done a lot but I guess I just want it all done right now. Well its getting late so I'm just going to put up some more pics and call it night.

So Ben and I finally bought our first house. Yes after 14 years of marriage we took the plunge. We never thought we were going to be able to afford a house here in Las Vegas. We also didn't know if we wanted to stay here. We really wanted to move back to Utah where Ben went to school and lived for 6 years. We love it there we even got a realtor and when on a house hunting trip last year. But when Ben started making good money and moving up we decided that maybe we needed to stay for awhile. When we moved here in September of 2004 houses were outrageous this house would have sold for 350,000 easy and maybe more because it has such a big back yard by Vegas standards. Anyway it is a good first house for us not to big (because utilities here are outrageous) and not to small. We have done a lot of work to it so I will be adding new pictures of everything we have done but for now here are the before pictures. We still have tons of unpacking to do you can hardly get in the front door. I'm just glad that I don't ever have to move again unless I want to.