House Hunting

It feels like this process has taken months but actually exactly one week after loosing the first house we put an offer on another house. We looked last Sunday and a couple of nights last week and really didn't find anything we like except one house. Last Tuesday Kay showed us a house that we really liked. We wanted to bring my parents back to see it so on Wednesday we all went back. They loved it to. The only thing we were hesitant about is the neighborhood was a little farther from everything we love like the gym, target, and our favorite fast food-Chick-fil-a!! Now when I say a little farther most people would laugh because it is only about 3-4 miles away from our house now so it is really not far at all. We had just been looking at neighborhoods that were walking distance from the gym and shopping. Of course this house was priced a little too higher than we wanted to spend. I think seeing how big the other house was and knowing how cheap it was for this area was really hard to get over.

The part that means the most to us was the inside. We LOVE the inside. It has everything we need. It has a downstairs office for me, a playroom (bonus) room for wade, and a walk up third floor for Josh. (that will be our project down the road because it is not finished yet.) I am excited about the pantry and the big laundry room with a folding shelf!!

I think my most favorite part about this house is that we have a flat front and back yard and the back yard is already fenced in. I never thought I would be so excited about a flat driveway and yard but everything else we saw had either a horrible driveway or a horrible back yard. This one even has a basketball goal and the boys are ecstatic! The other reason I think this was meant to be over the other house is that our new house is in a CUL-TI-SAC!! This would have never matter to me before kids but now it is so important. We are on a quiet side street in a cul-ti-sac. Wade is going to have so much fun being able to ride his little bike around. We can't wait to sit on our new front porch and watch him. We have already seen 3 or 4 kids playing in the cul-ti-sac! Another perk to this house is that we can walk to the pool and the park. We now just have to pray that the inspection and appraisal go ok and then it is a done deal!!

We went back Wednesday with my parents but didn't decide to put an offer in until Thursday night. We wanted to really think about it but Thursday we decided we didn't want to loose this one. Good thing we did because it has been showing like crazy. It has shown twice even after they accepted our offer. We found out on Friday afternoon that they accepted it. We had to counter a couple of times and we ended up paying about 5,000 more than we had wanted to but we felt like we couldn't loose this one over $5,000. We do have to paint most of the rooms (they just re-painted but choose horrible colors!) But other than painting and hanging a few light fixtures it is pretty much move in ready. We are closing in 30 days and we are so excited.