New House

After Russell started his new job we decided that we could look into getting a loan and looking for a new home.  This was a fun idea.  So I began to look at homes for sell on line.  I started keeping a list and also called our Realtor.  We had a few things on our list that we wanted.  5-6 bedrooms, a piano room, a fenced yard, a third car garage, and to be in the high school boundaries for Brinton.  This ended up being a little bit harder than we thought it would.  We also wanted to get a good deal.  It seemed like we had given our other house away and we wanted someone else to do the same :)  After a few weeks of looking we had a few options 3-4 houses that we thought would be good for our family and 2 options that would mean that we would stay at Russell's parent's house for a few more months while we built a new house.  We decided to take our friends and family to look at the existing houses and they could get a feel for what we were looking at and maybe give us some advice.   After looking our family had some great advice for us.  They liked all of the houses but the Stafford Cove house was the one that they all liked the best.  (This house was Russell's first choice and Joy's second choice)  We decided that we would make an offer and see what happened and that would also help us make our decision.  We put the first offer in and they counter offered.  We also counter offered and they just didn't want to budge on the price.  So we told our Realtor no thanks and were ready to make a different decision.  Then they came back a little bit lower on their offer.  We again said no.  Our Realtor came back and said he would put some money in and would also try to get the other realtor to put money in the pot so that we could get the house.  We ended up going a little bit over our budget so we could get into our house.  We wanted to move in just after Christmas but they wouldn't agree to that--so our closing date was January 6, 2012.  We were very excited,  we signed the papers and then I headed over to the house to clean.  Saturday morning we had a moving crew ready to move our things in. 

We love our new home.  It is a wonderful space for our family, in a great neighborhood.

This is where we are supposed to be :)

{This picture doesn't show the third car garage}