We're buying a house!!

Paul and I have decided to go ahead with buying a house! We met with Carol Smith while he was home to discuss our finances and what we could afford as a house payment. She made us feel so much more at ease than what we were before meeting with her. I would strongly recommend her to anyone who is looking into buying a house. We realized that we could easily afford an extra $10,000 house than what we were originally looking at.
The first thing we did after our meeting was start looking online at houses and we have found quite a few that are in the right location and that are the right size. We were still planning on waiting until Paul gets home but before he left he told me to go ahead with it. He claims that he wants to come home to our first home, but I think he is just trying to get out of the moving process. Such a smart one!
We have made a list of the houses we are interested in and have been talking over the internet about the pros and cons of each house. It has been great to still work on this together. It is proof that long distance can work. We are just as strong half a world away as we are sitting next to each other. It makes it easy when you get to work with your best friend on something like this!
The next step is contacting a realtor and making the trip out to Tennessee to find the perfect house to turn into our first home. I am planning on taking our realtor (my mom) for professional and personal opinions. We are planning on driving out on August 2nd and hopefully by the end of that week we will have signed a contract. This is alll sooooo crazy! I never thought that we would be in the position to buy a house but I am soo happy that we are.

News with Paul - He went back to work today (well, actually last night our time). He got a day off and was able to pretty much catch up on his sleep. Nothing else that I have heard of. Just trying to stay busy so the next couple of months fly by.