Woo Hoo!

I started blogging about a year ago, and my first entry was about closing on the sale of our former house in New York. 12 months have passed and we have come full circle--we just closed on the purchase of our new house in New York. (We didn't actually personally close since we're not in the U.S. right now, but our attorney signed the paperwork for us.) Anyway, it's official--the house is ours! We have a guy lined up to rip out the carpeting and replace it all with porcelain tiles, we have another guy scheduled to install a wrought iron fence to contain the dogs, we have all kinds of crazy plans to blast the back wall out of the lower level and put in glass doors and a patio. It's very stressful but so exciting too. I keep telling the dogs in a manic, high pitched voice that they will have their very own lake to swim in...they just tilt their heads and look worried that I have gone a bit mad and may forget to feed them!

(Sorry about the crappy house picture--we mostly took photos of things like the furnace and the fuse box when we were house hunting. This was one of the only exterior shots I got...oh well, as you can see it is made of brick and there is a big lake behind it. Again, woo hoo!)