As we drove to St. Augustine on April 26th I remember thinking, "so why exactly did Katie bring her mom?" I knew Katie and Bryan have a very close relationship with her mom, I just never had anyone ask to bring their mom on an engagement session. Later I found out the reason.
On the way home from Katie and Bryan's engagement session, Katie's mom and I sat in the back seat talking about life and where Katie and Bryan were going to live after their Winter Park wedding in November. That's when I found out she was a real estate agent, and the wheels started turning in my head. We spent the rest of the 2 hour car ride home talking about the housing market and what the prices looked like around Orlando. It dawned on me, 'maybe we can actually afford a house'.
That evening I came home and told Dave, "I think we should go look at houses tomorrow." After telling him about the discussion that had taken place on the ride home from St. Augustine he agreed that it would be a good idea to start looking at houses. Little did we know what the next few days would bring!
We made a slight change to our usual Sunday routine consisting of late morning and lazy afternoons, and took a look at houses in the Lake Nona area. We knew that there were several townhouse communities in the process of building and thought it would be our best bet to get a feel for what was out there. We were right! We must have looked at about 10 model townhouses that day. We left feeling very excited as there were several places that we liked in our price range.
Monday I spent the whole day looking at townhouse communities online and found some very close to Dave's office in Winter Park. We decided to check out one of these communities that evening. I didn't expect that this would be the day that we would find our house.
We walked into the leasing office and met Josh the sales associate. He took us through the model house then over to the newly built townhouses down the street, they were so new that they didn't even have carpet yet. After walking through all of them, we narrowed it down to one that we really liked. Dave and I both felt it as we walked out of the office and to our car, 'this could be the one'.
Two days later we signed the contract for our house! Only a month later we moved in!
Two weeks ago we had an open house for our wonderful friends to come and see our new digs. Here are some photos from the party :
Thanks Stefanie for taking those first few!
mmm... Puerto Rican Cigars
Thanks Becka and Nate for these photos!
"I dare you to eat all of these crackers without drinking any water"
... or this one...
