Freckled Moon: Our house, in the middle of the Street.(Not really)

Two years ago(whoa, time flies!) my husband and I bought our first home. Buying a home is a pretty crazy/scary experience. I mean, it's a lot of money! It definitely gave me major anxiety, and was stressful at times. It took us about 8-9 months to find a house we liked AND get our offer excepted. That was the hard part! (Dang people who would buy houses for cash and flip them!) There were times I just wanted to give up and rent for ever! I mean, renting is so much easier than owning something, right?! If a pipe burst you just have to tell the owner, ya know... So, we had to broaden our search on cites...We wanted to be in Costa Mesa/Huntington Beach area(by the beach). So we decided to come inland a bit and boom we found our home in Orange, California. It's a big fixer upper and I love it.
I'm hoping to share our experience as new homeowners & do it yourselfers though this blog. And I hope you enjoy reading and seeing our home as we DIY our way through it! In the below photos is our home with a new roof. There was a shake roof(wooden shingles) before and we had to get it redone to get our home insured! We also had to get it repainted to get it insured too :/ We figured, well we wanted it done anyway so oh well. But there's something annoying when you HAVE to do something. It all worked out though, it always does.
We also got our lawn & driveway redone.The driveway had a big crack in it from the cypress trees next to it. And the lawn didn't have a sprinkler system in it. We did this last year.
The house has come a long way and I'm very pleased with how it's coming along!