10 Year Houseversary
It was recently the 10-year anniversary of closing on our house.
Nathan & I had our house built while we were engaged. Why not plan a wedding AND build a house at the same time, right? Surely that couldn't be stressful...... oh, wait.
Here we are on our lot before they broke ground.
Here are some pictures taken right after our closing in January 2001.
I'm not sure why they're in black & white. I promise we're not so old that they didn't have colored film.
Bare walls, very little furniture. No kids, no cats. Not a single Elmo toy in sight.
That's a lot of white.
Nathan didn't move in the house with me until 2 months later when we were married. I made him hang mini-blinds for me so I'd feel more safe at night while I was there alone.
We closed in the winter and they didn't even have our sidewalks or outside work done. We entered our house through wood planks we put down over the snow and later mud.
This would have been our first or second summer in our house. There was a time in our lives when Nathan made sure to cut the lawn with perfect diagonal lines:
Funny, I don't remember having time in my life to plant flowers in the flower boxes. This is obviously pre-kids.
This house could tell a lot of stories. It could tell stories of two newlyweds, one messy and one neat, learning to be roommates together. It would tell about the snake that got in our basement and how Nathan & I had to catch it together. It would laugh and it would cry. And, 10 years later.... it can now tell stories of us raising soon-to-be 3 children and how blessed we are to have this home and one another.
Happy houseversary, Nathan!
Nathan & I had our house built while we were engaged. Why not plan a wedding AND build a house at the same time, right? Surely that couldn't be stressful...... oh, wait.
Here we are on our lot before they broke ground.
Here are some pictures taken right after our closing in January 2001.I'm not sure why they're in black & white. I promise we're not so old that they didn't have colored film.
Bare walls, very little furniture. No kids, no cats. Not a single Elmo toy in sight.
That's a lot of white.
Nathan didn't move in the house with me until 2 months later when we were married. I made him hang mini-blinds for me so I'd feel more safe at night while I was there alone.
We closed in the winter and they didn't even have our sidewalks or outside work done. We entered our house through wood planks we put down over the snow and later mud.
This would have been our first or second summer in our house. There was a time in our lives when Nathan made sure to cut the lawn with perfect diagonal lines:
Funny, I don't remember having time in my life to plant flowers in the flower boxes. This is obviously pre-kids.
This house could tell a lot of stories. It could tell stories of two newlyweds, one messy and one neat, learning to be roommates together. It would tell about the snake that got in our basement and how Nathan & I had to catch it together. It would laugh and it would cry. And, 10 years later.... it can now tell stories of us raising soon-to-be 3 children and how blessed we are to have this home and one another.Happy houseversary, Nathan!
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