Doin' our happy dance! :)

This is the house!

This is our backyard!

And this is the kitchen! YEAH:)

Well, it's legal! We signed the lease tonight. We can start moving in immediately. Our new landlords are FANTASTIC! We filled out the application with just the husband, but tonight we met his wife. They are a very friendly couple who seemed like genuinely good people, they even seemed excited for us to move in. Allen says he likes the fact that Mr. P (we won't put their last names out here on the blog out of respect for their privacy) is an experienced electrician and he has retired from a well known Quincy heating and AC company. I don't imagine there's very much that will go wrong with this house, but it is fairly old, and if for some reason something were to happen, at least we know we're in good hands. Also, they made it pretty easy for us on the pocket book, by not making us pay everything all up front. We only had to put 1/3 of the deposit down. Then the 1st of April we have to pay just the regular month's rent. May and June we will finish paying the other 2/3 of the deposit. It's a year long lease, month to month after that. Allen and I are both VERY excited. This time we don't feel like we are "settling" for a new place. We truly feel that this is the best house we are going to find in Quincy for the amount of rent we will be paying. We will certainly miss our front yard park, but we have a really great back yard now; and you can bet as soon as we can afford to buy a charcoal grill there will be some BBQ'n goin on! :) What we are not excited about is the whirlwind factor of moving. It always is, I guess as long as you are renting. Oh well, that's just part of it, but Allen and I are sooooo lucky to have a family that is willing to help us with our moving. (We are also very lucky that Allen's parents have a trailer!) The good news is that we both strongly agree that this is a place we can stay in until we are ready to buy.

On a MUCH more sad note...we don't have our little Penny dog with us tonight. :( She is at the Humane Society. She had her baby makin factory removed today. We pick her up tomorrow morning bright and early. It was REALLY hard to let her go. I had tears in my eyes when I handed her to the guy for him to take her away. It's very strange not having her in the house. It just doesn't seem right without her. It's like there's this HUGE hole in our evening routine. I miss her lots. Awwww....:(

And in other news, THE TREES IN THE PARK IN FRONT OUR HOUSE WERE TP'd LAST NIGHT. IT'S MY FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH VANDALISM. BLEH!

We have to get up early to get Penny tomorrow, but I don't think I'm going to sleep very well. My head is just completely full of all the decorating possibilities. I'm thinking...daisies and lemons for the kitchen. Possibly lavender and pastels for the living room b/c the baseboards are already painted a light lavender-ish color. I don't know though. We'll just have to wait and see.

Love you all! :)