Our New House

After careful planning and much consideration, Will and I decided it was a good time to buy our own home (pictures are on the slide show). We wanted a four bedroom so the kids could have their own room. We looked at homes around town. Houses are way cheap right now, but it was hard to find a four bedroom in our price range. Before the housing market crashed some new housing developments were built. They were beautiful homes but back then were selling for well over 500,000. When we weren't finding any four bedrooms that worked for us, we decided (just for kicks) to check out the available houses in one of the new developments. To our surpirise the new houses were in our price range and included some four bedrooms. So, the realitor showed us around and we found one we liked. It was originally a three bedroom, but they made the loft into a fourth bedroom at no extra cost to us (they just want to sell the thing). The bonus was it was completely ready to move in and fully landscape. Will and I have come to terms with our anti-yard work attitudes. The kid's rooms are all upstairs and the master bedroom is down stairs (nice). We have a garage, which Will is determined to only put the cars in. Best of all, I have a closet!! For those of you that don't know, we converted an extra family room into a fourth bedroom at our old house. Needless to say there was never a closet built. So, I am very excited that I no longer share a closet with Liam. We moved in back in July (right in the middle of school and everything else). It was hectic, but we have a great new house. Oh, and Liam (for reasons I dare not ask) has decided that he is going to buy the available house next door. He's obsessed and even told me that he was going to get in there somehow and switch the available sign to the sold side so no one will buy it. I told him that when he grew up, finished college, and got a job maybe he could buy it someday. Well, that was not good enough because he wants to be the first person to live there. Someone came buy the other day to put a sign on the lawn and he came running downstairs and asked why was some lady putting that sign in front of his house. I guess I should hide the hacksaw. I don't want him going out there cutting the dang thing down. Don't laugh he has been known to do odd things like that!!