house hunting

last night we met with our real estate agent Deb Adams.  she's been with us through this whole journey the last couple years.  she is kind and has been such an asset to us.  she's working the prop department in the Quincy production of My Fair Lady, but took the time out last night to show us a couple home in a new home development here in Ephrata.  we saw two different places with completely different floor plans.  both 3 bedroom, 2 bath.  here are pictures of the one we liked the best.

we love how open it is.  love that!!  the other place felt smaller because the rooms were so divided up.  and this one has a cluster of rooms (shown above) and then the master bedroom has a separete entrance off the living room.  there is also a lovely little sitting room just to the right when you come in the front door.  the morning sun will come through that window... im thinking photo studio in the making!  ;)

so now the next step for us is looking at all the paperwork.  its one thing to see the listed price of a house and quite another to see the breakdown of closing costs, taxes, etc.  once we see if its within our budget we'll move forward with making an offer.  so as of today we're waiting on paper work. 

is it natural to start planning how im going to decorate even before i know if this is our house??  :)