A Special Day...In Our History...

Wow! What a week this has been! In one sentence, I feel like we just went through the refiner's fire with our lender and loan. I almost think that if we hadn't been in a contract with the house we may have given up the whole thing. Monday we were faced with some tough decisions (an understatement, really) and then Tuesday felt like I'd lived through a disaster (another understatement). I spent all day on the phone, getting 2 or 3 calls coming in during other calls, and sending and receiving faxes with like 70 pages. Literally, all day. Non-stop. We ended up changing our lender (nice, 2 days before closing), but I really have to say that the people at First Horizon, who we ended up going through, were awesome!!! They had all our information, documents, everything, even the underwriting done in less than two days (someday, you will all really grasp on to what this means). Plus, they ended up saving us a huge chunk of money, and lowering our monthly payments a ton!! I really couldn't praise them enough. Then today......we closed on the house!! And we've got the keys! So it's now crunch time as we (and I really mean, mostly Lane) are scraping off the old popcorn style ceiling, re-texturing the ceiling, pulling out the old carpet, and painting the entire house, all by Tuesday so some guy can come in and lay the new carpet.
Lane and I have had so many little (and big) road blocks as we gone through this process of buying a house. But it is so obvious to me that those obstacles were placed there so that we'd end up with this house and that the financing would be right. The whole time I've thought, "the Lord has guided us in major changes in the past, why would this one be any different"? If I could only list all the things that changed in the last week to our benifit. So, we are officially home owners!! And, I finally have been feeling the excitement of it!