Buying a house

After a year in Texas we decided to really lay some roots, and we put some money down on a new house. Jill, as usual, spent a lot of time researching different areas of Austin and the surrounding communities. We decided on focusing our search in the city of Cedar Park which is just north of Austin's city limits. It's a relatively small city, but it has lots of new developments and new stores, restaurants, and the like. We're going to be about 15 or 20 minutes from downtown Austin, which is not too bad. Most importantly, we're going to be pretty close to a Alamo Drafthouse (not that we get to go see movies anymore).

We chose a house being built by KB Homes in their Silverado Ranch community. The house itself is 2,446 sq ft, with four bedrooms and two baths. We had our appointment with the Design Studio and we went through all the options that are available (the option list is 50 pages long) and made our basic choices. We're pretty excited.

We actually got this process started a couple of weeks ago, but we haven't posted anything because we were waiting to be approved for the loan. We just received the phone call from our Loan dude yesterday and he told us that we've been approved. Now we have to go through the remainder of the loan process, which, for those of you who haven't applied for a loan before, is a lot like being groped in public.

However, if everything goes well, then we're hoping that we'll be able to move in around mid-December.

Here's a picture of the lot where we'll be building: