GREAT Anniversary News!!!!

Our 5 Year Anniversary is a major milestone! (not that we didn’t think we’d make it this far or something, but it’s just great to see how far we have come in that time from where we started!)

The day didn’t quite turn out the way we thought, but there was some GREAT NEWS that day!

WE OFFICIALLY GOT APPROVAL ON THE HOUSE!!!!!! 

Ok now we had got the verbal approval the Monday before, but it just didn’t seem real since we were STILL waiting on the bank and couldn’t do anything. But when we got the call on our Anniversary, it was just perfect! We just had to go over to the house and take a picture of us in front of it (thanks Jill!)

After that news, the day sort of went downhill from there since we ALL got the stomach flu! (Wow that sooo was not fun!), and Christmas got post-poned by a day (That was definitely a first). But still it was a great day!'

Any ways, we’re hoping that things (now that they are a little more in our control)  will happen within 2-3 weeks. I can’t even explain how excited we all are! I think the two things that I am looking forward to the most by having this new house are A) the fact that all of my piles and piles of clothes from the 4 of us that are shoved in our room, will FINALLY have a place of order and not drive me so crazy! And B) that Oliver will NOT be in our room anymore! (Halleluiah!). Don’t get me wrong, I love that little guy more than anything . . . but 11 months of sharing with mom and dad is far too long. Sharing with Caleb from here on out might present it’s own challenges but we’ll figure it all out eventually!

I think I’ll post pictures once it’s slightly more clean and when we get closer, but it’s a perfect little home for us. We felt so good about it from the get-go. When we first walked through it, it was already late, dark outside, and we were tired from looking at a bunch of other homes. When our realtor, Pam Pettingill, told us it was a large house on a small lot, I thought “Ha, yeah right that I’ll be ok with a small yard.” But when we walked through it, we just got that “feeling.” Like a really excited, this is the right thing, kind of feeling. The next day we went to look at other houses, but every time I saw another house, I just couldn’t stop thinking of this house and comparing everything to it. When we saw it again, we knew we needed to jump on it and make an offer! Only two days after our offer, another offer came in followed by three more! We just feel so blessed that we found it when we did, and were given the patience we needed to wait out this long and painful process to get it. The home is in Highland, and quite close to my parents’ home which will be really nice (since we still really love them after being so extremely close for 6 months! LOL! )

Any ways, just wanted to share in the fun news!  We can’t wait to embark on this new fun adventure we have that is finally just around the corner!