Thanks everybody! I love coming here - it's such a fun, supportive group. I really am happy that we bought our house - now it's just lots of stuff to do to make it our own, and improve upon some things. Certain things just weren't done to our standards, if that makes sense - people sometimes do things in a backward/halfway type of way that just doesn't work as well or look as good. The improvements are small in comparison to some of the houses we could've bought, and we also will do things little by little, just as we will with buying furniture, etc.

Thanks for the compliments on my cats. We love them so dearly! I had a lot of Claudia b/c I was lacking quality pictures of her before. She really is a sweetie, but so are the rest of them.