I am almost caught up! Life has been so crazy the past 2 months! With Luke finishing his Master's degree, school ending, Disneyland, finding out we are having twins and then about 3 weeks ago we moved! We (mostly I, Kellie) had been looking at homes for the past year and started getting serious about it last fall. We loved our home and neighborhood but the drive to go basically anywhere was killing us. Our plan was to rent out our existing home and then buy a new one. And with house prices still low and interest rates so low, we decide that if we could find the right house this may be our chance to move to the area where we really wanted to be. We orginally put an offer on the house we ended up buying in February (I think), but I actually wasn't that interested in it. It was probably the 6th or 7th house we had put an offer in on, and since most were short sales nothing ever happened with them. But in April the bank came back and said they had accepted our offer! I was sick, I didn't think I wanted the house but in those 2 months I had stopped seeing any new homes go on the market that we were interested in and prices seemed to be creeping up. So I new it was this house or wait a couple years until we could sell our other house. We took as long as we could to decide (several weeks) but it got to the point that we had to be in or out. Luke was all for it but I was hesistant (as usual). But with lots of prayer, we decided it was the right step for us and we commited! Finding renters took a little longer than I thought it would and was very stressful but we finally found someone and have now moved into our new home. Change is always hard for me, even when it is what I wanted, but this house had already felt surprisingly like home from before we even moved in. Gabrie has struggled a little bit, I think all of the change is getting to her, and she misses all of her friends and hasn't had many chances to meet new ones yet. But she starts Kindergarten in a few weeks so that will be a new chapter for all of us!
I'd post a picture of the house, but my camera is broken :) maybe I'll add one later.
3 comments:
Glad you got some renters :) I think we are finally all healthy so we will have to get the girls together.
Well, if you don't like the house, you can always return it, right Kellie? ;-) hehehhe
You guys have had a big couple of months. Glad to hear the new place is starting to feel like home! Post pics soon...I'd love to see it!
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