We bought a house!!!

John and I have been looking at houses for a few months and finally put an offer on one. We have looked at dozens and dozens of houses in Gainesville trying to find one that had potential but was still in our price range. We finally decided to put an offer on a four bedroom one and a half bath 1200 sq ft house. It needs a little work but a lot less work than most we looked at. Also the price was really good and they accepted our initial offer which was kind of surprising. We won't be moving till sometime in July so we have a little while to decide on paint and carpet colors. We are both really excited but also a little in shock that we will be making such an adult step in our lives. We will post some pics when it gets a little closer to the big move. I am sure we will post some before and after shots too so you can see the transformation.

Also, today John and I hid our first letterbox. For those of you unfamiliar with letterboxing, to start you go online (letterboxing.org) and look up letterboxes in your area. You print out clues that lead you to a small box usually hidden in a park. Once you find the box, inside you find a hand carved stamp and a small pad of paper. You take your own stamp and pad along with you. You then stamp your stamp in the book you find and stamp the stamp from the box in your book. Basically, you follow clues, find boxes and collect stamps. It is a pretty fun hobby because it gets you outside and you also go into areas of parks that you normally wouldn't see. Anyway, John carved a stamp and we created our own "trail name" kind of like a screen name but for the letterboxing site and we went out and hid our box. We then came home and posted the directions to find it. From the site we can also monitor who finds it to be able to keep track of it. I have been finding boxes for about a year but this is the first one we have hidden. If you haven't tried letterboxing, it is a great way to get outside and have some fun with the family or by yourself. It is starting to take off in a lot of areas so there are a lot more boxes to find than there were even a year ago.

Completely unrelated - we went to see Star Trek this weekend. We hadn't been to the movies since November when we saw Twilight. Ticket prices went up again here so I don't think we will be going again any time too soon especially since we bought a house. It seems like summer time is when all of the good movies come out because there we a lot of previews that looked really good. I guess we will have to wait for them to come out on video.