The Search Continues...

Hey ya'll,

SO today was a BIG day for us... I'll start with yesterday.

We started looking at houses again yesterday and we viewed about 10 additional houses. We narrowed it down to our two favorites, then we invited our families to join us and give us their opinions. I valued and really wanted their opinions. Matt and I prayed about it, we slept on it, and then we decided which one we wanted. We were filled with excitement and anticipation of what the following days would bring.

Today we met up with our realtor at our favorite house and we took another walk through just to make sure that this was THE HOUSE.

We love this house. Our little dream house! :)

So we sat down with our realtor and made an offer.

Later on this evening they countered, and tomorrow we have to either except or counter again. If we get everything negotiated out then our closing date will be the end of July!

We are so excited about this! I am already thinking about how I want to decorate! If you follow me on Pinterest, you will see a ton of house decor on your newsfeed, so I apologize in advance. :)

On an even more serious note, we want the Lord's will in this... We want His plan for our life. So if you could, please pray for God's will in this situation.
Thank you so much

Love
Jess :)

The Start of Our Search For Our Happy Home

Hey everyone,

Matt and I have been really thinking about buying a house lately. Some of our really good friends were going through the house buying process and it got us thinking about getting a house of our own.  The thing that really got us started was looking at our rent payment and thinking it could be going towards a mortgage... but instead we are seemingly throwing our money away into renting an apartment.

We started off my looking at the usual sites: zillow, trulia, etc. We decided to talk to a realtor to see if we even could get a house, since I am in school full-time it cuts out the possibility of me having a regular full-time job-- in all reality we really were thinking that we wouldn't be able to get one until after I graduated.

Our first step was to find a realtor we wanted to use. We went with some of our friends. From then, our realtor told us to get in touch with a lender before looking at houses. We called up the lender she suggested and made an appointment.


Before we went into the appointment we prayed for God's will and that if He wanted us to get a house for Him to make a way for us to be approved, and if not we would wait. Me being negative like I am, I went in thinking there is no way we will get approved.

What do you know... WE WERE PRE-APPROVED! We were ecstatic with the news! We immediately started driving around town looking for houses.

So today we spent part of the day going around looking at houses with our realtor. I am so excited about what God is doing in the Anderson house. Tomorrow we are going to look at more houses and I can't wait. :)

God showed me a lesson over the week. The lesson was that above all I need to trust in Him and Him alone. Once I started thinking about things like a down payment and all the money it takes to get a house, I started to take my eyes off of Him and started focusing on everything else. This reminded me of the story in the Bible about Jesus and Peter on the water. Jesus told him to focus on him. However when Peter took his eyes off of Jesus he started to sink.I started to look at all the stressful things that go on in buying a house and I started to sink in stress. However, if I had just kept my eyes on Jesus I could have easily avoided unnecessary stress.

Anywho... That is my rant for the day :)

Love
Jess

A Little About Happy Me.

Hi! I'm Jessica Anderson. I am married to the man of my dreams, Matt Anderson. We were married in August of last year, so we are still newlyweds and getting used to the whole being married thing. The year has been filled with great times getting to really know each other. So far it has been fun and frustrating, and the best 10 months of my life!

I am currently a babysitter/unemployed, full-time student at Tennessee Technological University. It has always been my dream to be a teacher. Ill be graduating next May and it could not come faster.
Matt is the college-age youth pastor, also known as Standing In the Gap at the best church on the planet, Fellowship Baptist Church.


We love Jesus and put HIM in the center of our relationship. I love the Lord and He is the BEST thing that has ever happened to me. I don't know what God has planned for our future but I do know that we want His will for our lives. 

Why blog? I have been wanting to start a blog for about a year now. However, for whatever reason (lack of motivation and laziness) I had not started one. Plus I could never think of a catchy name. So today I was determined to start one. I wanted to write about the joy of growing up, marriage, teaching, and ministry. Its weird to think that just a few years ago I was in high school and now I am a married woman about to have a career and working at the church that I have always loved! I am living my dream. :)

-Love

Jess