One year anniversary

My wife and I recently celebrated our one year anniversary. Our one year anniversary of buying a house.

We looked for a house for about 3 months and found a good little house that needed only minimal amount of work to make it liveable that was very near to the parish we go to.

We placed a bid and got the house, our realtor helped me fix the plumbing to the kitchen sink and we closed on Friday and moved in on Saturday.

Ok, so the house is able to be lived in, but needs tweaking.
With some help from my dad on some of these projects,
1. I have fixed the downstairs bathroom so the toilet and bathtub don't leak, (replaced 3 hole bath fixture with 2 hole) made a hole in the dinning room to repair the broken pipe to the shower, repaired that.
2. put a french door in the downstairs bathroom to have access to the closet, replaced the fan in that room ran a new wire to the switch, and Ellie pained the walls,
3. Ellie painted the dining room
4. had foam insulation put in the attic
5. had a new furnace and a/c unit installed, with the furnace moved to provide better flow in the basement.
6. moved all the water lines to accommodate the new furnace placement.
7. had energy audits and recommended improvements done
8. installed rubber floor in the TV room of the basement
9. replaced/moved hot water heater
10. worked on wiring to balance load in the house/free up circuits for new outlets/lights in the basement/behind the entertainment center
11. Ran heating and a/c duct work to the second floor and installed Fantec fan to move conditioned air up to the second floor.
12. dug dry wells, sowed grass in the back yard
13. built a raised garden next to the garage, planted produce there
14. built rain barrels to collect water off the garage to water the garden
15. outfitted garage as a workshop (benches, table saw, miter saw, drill press, new light)
16. Installed motion detection lights on the back door and front of the garage
17. got Joseph a playset
18. Ellie started a rose garden in the front yard.
19. Replaced the fence going from the house to the garage

Also, we wanted a house in this location so we would be close to St. Gertrude Church.
We liked and were familiar with the Dominican priest, were in the choir and close the the choir director and several members of the choir.

Well, almost a year exactly after we moved, all the priests at the parish were moved to other parishes, the choir director moved on and we both dropped out of the choir, due to reasons no related to the changes at the church.

We try to stay in contact with our friends from the choir with game nights and individual visits.
We are trying to get used to the new priest, but the choir director left due to the new pastor not liking the wide variety of music he uses to give glory to God and sanctify and edify the faithful, so that has left a bad taste in my mouth.

All in all, I am very glad to have moved where we did. It is a nice neighborhood, close to lots of stuff (grocery stores, Lowes), close to the church we still attend. It is about the same distance from Ellie's work, but with her going to part time soon, that will have less of an impact.

I have a short list of projects to complete (short, but will not be able to be finished quickly) After they are finished, I plan on taking a break from the improvement bug.