adult life.

in early 2017 micah and i decided we wanted to start the crazy process of becoming home owners.

since i am a military brat and micah is a pastor's kid, this is something neither of us knew anything about.

after getting pre-approved for a loan we made an offer on the first house we ever looked at. what a cinderella story this would be if i said that it was accepted and we are now living in that house with our two cats.....but it didn't exactly go that way.

our original offer was initially rejected. they wanted more money. more money than we could afford. note to anyone in the market right now--if you are in considering a house in a flood zone, be prepared financially.

about a week later the seller came back because they had another buyer and wanted to counter us (because the week before they simply rejected our offer). we considered, but ultimately moved on.

we just kept looking hoping that we would find something that we liked as much as that first house, but nothing seemed to be right.

the housing market was (and still is) extremely hot and houses were going fast. we were on our way to see a house after work once and it actually sold on our way.

we looked and looked and just couldn't find anything. we almost gave up.

in december we went and looked at two houses. out of the two we definitely liked the first one better...it was so open, spacious and in a great location.

we put in an offer on january first and thought we would hear back in a few days, but it took a couple weeks because the law firm dealing with the sale was out of the office for the holidays.

when they accepted our offer over a full cash offer we were shocked.

as it turns out the family of the owner (who had passed away) picked us because they wanted a young family to enjoy their sister's house and wanted it to be loved.

we closed at the end of february and have now been in our house for three months.

we are adjusting to this huge adult decision and loving having our own place.
the ladies also absolutely love the new house and all the windows they get to look out of.

the little ladies.

never in my life did i think i would be a cat lady.

we always had dogs in my family. micah's family always had cats.

over the summer of 2017 micah found out one of his friend's cats was having a litter. due to my mild allergy we were a little hesitate about getting one...much less two.

after reading loads of articles about cat allergies and seeing that a lot of experts say if you get a cat when it's a kitten your body sometimes builds a tolerance to their dander, we decided we would get one.

when the litter was six weeks old we went to go pick one from the litter. there were two that gravitated toward us, but we still only picked one.
later that week we were talking to micah's friend and she mentioned that the two that were around us a lot (including the one we picked out) were inseparable and joked that we should take both of them.

after a lot of talking and thinking and, yes, reading more articles about having two cats versus one...we decided to take them both.

we brought them home when they were almost eight weeks old and every day we say that we're so glad we did.

java and gizmo are completely inseparable still. they snuggle and sleep together all the time. they do not like to be apart....even when they are in the same house.

now they are eight months old.

on our last trip to the vet, the doctor told us she thought they were twins. she thinks it is likely they were in the same sack.

life is great with the little ladies.

i never, i mean never ever, thought i would have a cat. i definitely never thought i would have TWO cats. but they are the center of our lives right now. we actually feel a little crazy that we love them so much, but to have a pet that you love is a great thing.