Welcome To Our New Home

After a few months of looking for homes in California, we finally bought one!  We feel so lucky to call this house our own.  With wealthy investors, houses were flying off the market so quickly with offers far above the asking price.  We feel we were being watched out for as there was no way we could compete.  This became our home November 11th.  Thank you to all the friends and family who helped us move!

We live in the San Gabriel Valley of California and love the warm weather.  Our neighbors are very nice and share their fresh avocados and lemons with us.  Most nights we hear Taps played on the trumpet by someone near the city hall down the street.  We are close to Ian's family and get to spend a lot more time with them now.  We are loving having our own space and not living in a one bedroom apartment any more:)

This is our backyard.  We have made some changes to it over the last few months, including the garden, but I will post about that later.   

This house was built in the late 1940's.  We are the second family to own the home!  The owner gave us the original blue prints for the house.  We are enjoying updating and improving the home little by little.