Mi casa es mi casa.

Hi. As of this morning, we are the official owners of a new house.

This is the front:



This is the view from the foyer:



This is the back:



This is the view from the back:



Things we like about our new house:

* the loft, which you can kind of see from picture 2
* the very nicely finished basement
* the large size
* the deck that connects from the second-story master bedroom, which gives us a great view of...
* ...the golf course that abuts our backyard (see picture 4)
* that it was practically ready to move in on day one (decidedly not the case with most houses we looked at)
* that we can park both cars in the garage relatively easily (not true of our last home)
* that our yard does not have a large hill on it (not true of either of our previous homes)
* the very reasonable commute for Kim (only about 15-20 minutes in rush hour)
* the disc golf courses one and three miles away
* the Metra station less than one mile away
* the nice little park four blocks away
* that we're in the district of Adlai E. Stevenson High School, one of the three best non-magnet public high schools in Illinois (the other two being in areas where $1 million gets you a decent starter home)
* that Benji likes it

Things we do not like about our new house:

* the exorbitant Lake County taxes

Oh well.