We Have a HOUSE!!

We have been renting for the last 2.5 years. We moved out of the Danville house because we wanted Preston to be in a good school district and we weren't positive Jeff would have a teaching contract so we took the safe road and started renting. We signed a 3 year lease for many reasons, but 1 being that we knew we wouldn't want to move again really quickly. Since last August, we have been house hunting. We have found a couple that we have fallen in love with along the way and even had an offer on one, but none of them came about. Until this weekend. We met our realtor at a foreclosure on Friday night. The house we met at was one of my favorites even though there were only a couple pictures online. The outside was beautiful and it had the right amount of bedrooms and bathrooms, etc. We walked around and spent about 45 mins at this house. They say when you know, you just know and I so wanted to "know" this was the house. Our realtor (who is a long time friend) told us she wanted us to look at another foreclosure in the neighborhood. It was on my list of houses we wanted to see, but I told her the backyard was bad and we had changed our minds about it. She took us to the house just for kicks and we walked in and KNEW. All 5 of us started oohing and ahhhing the moment we stepped into this house. It had everything I had on my list of desires (before we found out about Shands baby #3). Granite countertops, smooth ceilings, double ovens, hardwood floors, and the list goes on. This house had only been on the market for 17 days and we knew it wouldn't long. We went home and prayed about it, dreamed about it, and talked about it. Jeff was still very reserved about the backyard, but by the next afternoon, he had decided that there were plenty of options to fix it. We went back over there that afternoon and walked the property and it just felt right. There are a couple things that will need to be fixed, but all manageable. The inside is almost spotless. New carpet and fresh paint. Sunday afternoon, we went back over there with Carmen and as she, Jeff, and I stood outside, we all three mentioned how we had a peace about it. We didn't need to look any further because we were home. We went to her office and wrote up an offer. We gave the bank until Friday night to get back with us and I just knew it was going to be the longest week of my life. She called me yesterday afternoon and said they had already responded with a counter offer. We sent them back a counter and Carmen texted me this afternoon and said "We have a deal!!!!!!" We are set to close on September 12th and we couldn't be more excited. This has been a long time coming and it will be nice to finally have a place of our own again. We give all the glory to God and His perfect timing.

Our new house before it gets some love from Green King. :)