It's official!!!

Papers were signed, money was paid, and it is now official--this house is ours!!!

It was supposed to be ours, oh, 2 weeks ago? And actually it was supposed to be ours 2 weeks before that. We made sure the second lien holder (the one causing all the problems) didn't know we were moving despite not actually owning the house yet, and arranged to rent back from the owners until we finally closed. We haven't drilled any holes in the walls, or put up the fancy (and super-adhesive) door handle thingies that keep the kids from opening them, in the off-off-off chance that something awful happened and we didn't get the place at all. But now we can! Woot!