Goodbye old house.....

We will definitely miss some things about you!!! You were a good first home for us- a "starter home" is what we refer to you as. And I have to admit.... we are very proud to call you that. You played a big role for us. You put a roof over our head our first year of marriage and never put us in dept with your affordable rent. So thank you. And listening to my parents and grandparents talk about their "first homes"- your single wide, 1100 sq foot structure sounds pretty idealistic. Not to mention you were not an apartment (don't think I could handle people on either side of the wall or worse... people below and or on top of us).

We will NOT miss the ant infestation.

We will NOT miss the swamp cooler.

We will NOT miss not having a garage in the winter time (especially with my leather seats).

We WILL miss your glamorous and spacious dirt yard (dogs conquer with this one)

We will NOT miss the drive to that end of town and waiting for the tram to pass as I'm running late to class.

We WILL miss living 3 minutes from church and mother's office. And 10 minutes closer to the VC campus.

We will NOT miss the creepy neighbors the stare every time we walk out our gate- especially when I go for a run or go pay rent. Or the hundreds of dogs that freak out and look like they are going to break through the rusty fences and eat my dogs and myself.

We WILL miss "chili's lane". We had many awesome neighbors that worked with us and whenever either of us were bored or needed something, we could walk on over and BBQ, chat, use the Internet, borrow tools, etc.

 We will miss the memories of this little home. We did lots of first together as the "Fitzgeralds" in this house.

 (view from the front door)

 

 Living room/ office/ work out space/ everything goes down here!

Thank you for providing a dishwasher! Lots of fun memories of "first" time dinner attempts in this kitchen. 

 Our bed took up the entire room. But hey- No disrespect to your "master room". It worked great for us.

Our bathroom. In that little room straight ahead is where you would find the toilet and a tiny shower Erik had to duck in to get his hair wet. Again... we loved it! And the best part about the master suit?? It had two walk in closets! Highly recommended to always have his/her closets. I think we would have had a lot my fights if I had to walk into what his closet looked like every morning to find something to wear! 

 "guest" bathroom. or "poop" bathroom as Erik called it. Yes... we are weird. But did you notice no door in our bathroom?

 Second bedroom. again... bed takes up most of the room. but that's okay!!

That's it!! A tour of our first home as husband and wife! Lots and lots of fun memories in this little trailer! It was bitter sweet locking that door for the last time to turn in the keys.

Like I said. We always took pride in our little home. Always so excited to make it "our home". My favorite memory was decorating for Christmas. We went to lows with my family... while they payed a million dollars for their huge 12 foot tree, we were so excited to pick out our cute little 5 footer. We put it up together, we hung lights together, we picked out our first ornament color scheme together, we got up on the roof together and strung lights outside the house.

I loved this home. I don't care what it looks like. What the size is. What kind of neighborhood you live in. Great memories is all you need to make a home YOUR home!!! And love to make a house a home! Thank you starter home for humbling me!