New house

 We bought a house!! We closed on it Aug. 22nd right after I got home from Brazil. It's in Sandy, not far from our old townhouse in Cottonwood Heights and only 15-18 minutes from my parents' house (I timed it).

 The back yard has a nice deck and a hot tub which I never thought I wanted but will be fun to have.

This is a little room off the kitchen. We'll take that wall that Jake is pointing at down so it'll be open to the family room and we'll redo the ugly fireplace.

                                                                            

Here's the kitchen. Not a ton of work needs to be done in there but we want to add a nice backsplash, new floor, new paint, new lights, new faucet, new cabinet knobs and new appliances. Okay, so maybe it does sound like a lot of work.

 The basement just needs new carpet and paint.

 Another view of the kitchen

 Master bedroom

 Laundry room/mudroom

 Grandma Donna came over one day with us and we had a picnic on the floor

 Ty and Kathy were in town too so they came over to see the house

 

 Downstairs room. Luckily it's the only room with wallpaper that will have to come down.

 This is the dining room but I don't want a formal dining room so I'll use it as a living room/music room

Backyard

Amber exploring the kitchen

Another view from the front

 Cookie and Zach and Rob and Ali came by one night to see it and of course Zach had a wrestling match with the kids.

 The night we closed on the house we went and got slurpees to celebrate. (We go all out around here!)

 Cheers!

We're so excited to have our own place to fix up and move into! I'll post more pictures of the house when it's fixed up.