We have a house finally!

We signed the final contract on a house tonight. We are so glad to be done! We needed closure and we needed a plan and now we have that! The whole house hunting adventure turned out to be much different than Kevin and I had envisioned it. Buying our first house( i am so sad to leave it..it is the perfect little house) was a breeze we've realized! This time around was quite different. We were trying to accomplish so much with this move and we learned that you just can't have it all. Something has to give. We wanted to get closer to Kevin's office, closer to church, be in a great school district, get lots of square feet, have a big lot with big trees, have the perfect floor plan, have a home that was newer or had been redone, and we wanted to capitalize on the market and get a killer deal. And those are just the big wants....I could list so many little ones! Well, as you can imagine we couldn't find a house that accomplished all that! But we did get a new house, in a great school district, with a super floor plan for our family, on a nicer lot than what we have now, for a good price. So we didn't get closer to church and work....but we looked at least 20 different neighborhoods, 7 different cities, and who knows how many houses. I know one day Kevin and our realtor looked at 30 houses or something crazy like that!

So if we weren't under so much stress....all that probably would have been more fun! And I hope I don't sound like a whiner! We feel so blessed to even have the opportunity to purchase a larger home for our family. It's just that we had so many decisions to make and not much energy to do it! Landon asked why he and Liam didn't get to choose the house........! Maybe we should have let them....their only criteria was stairs!! Landon is now using terms like 'closing', 'stories', 'walk-ins', 'specs', and he loves looking at floor plans and determining where the bathrooms and kitchens are!

Oh and our closing on this house has been up in the air this week, but now we are closing three days later than what we originally agreed upon and we will be moving out on Saturday. We are supposed to close on the new house on the 27th and will be staying with family until then. Whew! So moving twice stinks, but that's what happened! It will be an adventure. And my sister and brother in law may not want children after we stay with them, but the boys are going to love it:)

On the pics from the last post. Klaire is first in purple and then Kallie is second in pink!