home

the house. the house. the house! we close tomorrow. and after two months of feeling nothing but overwhelmed, i am officially excited.

our new house!

this is our house, though it looks a bit different now. the door is navy, there is grass, a couple of plants. it looks like a real house.

we've been looking to buy a house in indianapolis for about a year now and immediately fell in love with this area. it's a "transitional" neighborhood on the near east side - which means this: there is what steven believes to be a crack house on our left and this across from our garage...

but there is a big movement going on right now to bring families like ours back to the city. new houses being built, old ones being renovated, parks being put in. one thing that has always appealed to us about indianapolis is that it is so affordable and convenient to live in the city. we will be about two miles from the heart of downtown. it's an exciting time to be buying a house and living in the city.

i've never been good at decorating and truthfully, we've just never done much of it. a lot of what we have has been handed down from family. we've just made it work. but now that we're in a home, we're excited about investing in some good things and things that are reflective of our personalities. it's funny that buying a home doesn't make me feel like an adult, but making my first purchase from crate & barrel does! this will by no means become a decorating blog, because it's just not my thing, but i will definitely share some pics as we get settled.

we are currently living in chaos which i really suck at. and since last time we moved i didn't have to do any packing because of THIS, i really suck at packing too. wish my sister and my mom were here...