We bought a house!!!

So...this all came about in a crazy way, but we bought a house!!!  I began looking at houses for "fun" online the last week of January.  I told my mom I was casually looking at homes and of course she jumped on that boat and started looking too.  She showed me a house that had been on the market for a while and it looked interesting enough to go through.  We also fell in love with a beautiful yellow house on the East side of town and had to go and look at it.  So, we called our realtor up and went through both homes.  We were half way serious about looking and half way just looking to see what was out there for when we really wanted to move in 1-3 years from now.  Our realtor sent us a huge list of homes to look at online over the weekend and then the next Monday night he took us through 5 homes.  This home is the last one we went through and it checked off a lot of boxes for us!  Closer to town, on a cul de sac, in a great neighborhood, 4 bedrooms plus a bonus, move in ready, a beautiful lake view, and an amazing mortgage rate.  Adam immediately loved it and I liked it, but was still stuck on the old yellow house on the East side (which was too pricey and needed some work too).  We ended up making an offer on this home that day bc another offer was coming in and we were told to move fast if we wanted it.  I felt super rushed but we got a good deal!  I had a good dose of buyers remorse, wondering if we made a hasty decision bc we still had to sell our own home!  Ahhhh! This freaked me out! I always said I wouldn't buy a new home until this one was sold.  Ha.  Broke my own rule!  

4545 Langly Ct.
 We look forward to spending many days out on our gorgeous patio with a lake view!  We are installing a fence ASAP, and we hope to put in a dock so we can go fishing sometime.  =)  All in all- we are thrilled with how everything happened and can't wait to live in our new house!

 It will be bittersweet saying goodbye to our current home.  We outgrew this home a little faster than I had anticipated.  We will have lived in this home for almost exactly 3 years.  We moved in with 6 month old baby Graham and now we move out with 3 kids!  It's been a good house for us and an AMAZING neighborhood.  Sad to be leaving our neighbors (tears), but we are moving just 7 minutes away!!! 

I do need to tell you that God answered my prayers for selling our home!  Our amazing realtor, Mike Reeder, did a superb job of getting our house sold.  14 days!!!  We got an offer on our home just 4 days before we closed on our new one.  It gave me so much peace closing on our new home that we were not going to be paying 2 mortgages for 3 years like I had pictured in my head! 

3011 Deland Dr.

 I confess that our home usually NEVER looks this clean, but I've watched enough HGTV to know that a staged home sells WAY faster than a cluttered home.  We spent a week packing up a Go-Mini storge unit and I got to live in a beautiful, clutter free home for 2 weeks. I'm not going to lie.  I LOVED LIVING IN A CLEAN HOUSE!  The adrenaline I got from getting that phone call about a showing got my booty moving!  I cleaned this house top to bottom at least 7 times in 2 weeks.  Phew.  My body hurts now (literally, I pulled out my back during the last home-prep for a showing), but I think I've developed a few good habits that I hope I can keep up!  It's tricky with 3 toddlers making messes, but the key is less is more and stay on top of it!  Our motto is "Don't Put it Down, Put It Away".  (We can dream, right?)

We get posession of our new home on Sunday, April 1st and we plan on painting that week.  The "Big" move will happen on Friday, April 6th.  Maybe we will have a few boxes unpacked before the Easter bunny arrives?!