a long road home

kids in the Stone Brewery gardens
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Six months. That's how long we've been here and how long we've been renting. It was weird to go from owning a home in Portland to renting a house in Southern California, esp. with young children and active dogs. But today we took a big step to change that. Today we signed the papers to purchase this home!

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To celebrate our soon-to-be purchase, we went out for dinner this evening to a local brewery we've been wanting to check out since we moved here - Stone Brewery. Fantastic beers and delicious foods all in a gorgeous building, inside and out. It'd be great if it were a little closer to us, but then we'd probably go there often and given the extremely large purchase we are about to make, we really shouldn't. On our way out there M said we should be at home clipping coupons and eating Top Ramen. Ha. Probably not far off, but what fun would that be??

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Anyway... we're expecting to close mid-next week! Stay tuned!!

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[Don't remember the photos of this house we posted when we first arrived? Look in the old posts, mid to late February 2008.]