Quick update

I have been terrible recently about keeping this thing updated with stories from our life...it's been kinda crazy! So here's a quick glimpse at where we stand with the whole house thing.



We found the perfect house for us on Saturday, July 5th.

We made an offer on the house on Tuesday the 7th

Offer was countered and accepted on Wednesday the 8th...YEA!!!!

On Friday the 10th we had an inspection done on the house and it was amazing! The inspector said he could not believe the condition of the house considering the age. It was most definitely well taken care of and well loved during the past 43 years the current owners have been there.

We are set to close on Monday, August 11th

We get possession on Tuesday, August 19th

School starts for Trinity on Monday the 25th (talk about cutting it close, huh?)



We definitely feel like this house is where we are supposed to be going and we have this feeling for a number of reasons...let me share a few of them with you. The same week we listed our house this one went on the market and Greg and I immediately found it online. It has many of the details we have always wanted in the curb appeal, but the owners weren't going to be moving until mid-August so we scrapped the idea. A few days later my mom's best friend called and said there was a perfect house that was on the market (the same house) and we should look at it. A few days later I asked a friend of mine if she had any suggestions of places to look and she mentioned this same house because her sister lives across the street. She said the house was well taken care of and the neighborhood was wonderful. She sold Greg on it by telling him about all the hubbys in the neighborhood watching football together on Sundays:)

Okay, so that's three things pulling us to the house, but we still chose to ignore them because we hadn't received an offer on our house. Greg had been driving by it about once a week while he was on appointments in that area and really, really liked it from the street.

My mom started telling us all the ways we are connected to the current owners of the house and how wonderful they are. Apparently he was very good friends with the minister who raised us (married my parents, baptized me, and was the minister of our church until I was in middle school), he and his wife are now active members in our church (I hadn't met them because we've found a church close to our home here in Big D)...the connections go on...

We finally decided if we were going to get moved before school started we were going to have to get going, even if we hadn't sold ours yet, so we went to look at houses with our real estate agent and this was one of them. We could immediately feel the love and care this house has felt over the past years and could see our little girls running around it and can picture them on Christmas morning...all the warm and cuddly stuff! So we left the house search and still felt like we needed an offer on ours in order to proceed...then we started talking. In a couple of brief conversations on the way home we quickly devised a plan that would allow us to get a new house while we still wait on this one to sell and we got all the details worked out in no time at all. Details that would not have fallen into place if we had been in the position even a few weeks earlier. We consider ourselves to be so blessed all this is happening the way it's supposed to! For us this was just another example of how God takes care of you and everything always turns out the way it's supposed to, even if it's not how you wanted it to! (If we had sold this house a few years ago like we had originally planned to there is no way we would have moved to my home town- happened just like it was supposed to!)

So we're still waiting to sell this house, but at least we're not in a rush to get out of here while we are also getting moved in, settled and starting school.

Unfortunately we don't have any pictures of our new house, but we will get some posted as soon as we get moved in!