All The Pretty Horses

After losing three homes we put offers in for, we decided to check out a house I had saved in the beginning of our search. Whenever deciding which homes to view, this one never made the cut. I'm not sure why, I guess it just wasn't the right time.

Pulling into the driveway the first thing I noticed was HORSES! The property backs up to a huge pasture with horses! Once I got over the excitement of the horses we viewed the house and loved it. It has everything we wanted! A big front porch, a screened back porch overlooking the horses, 4 bedrooms, and 3 1/2 baths. There are a few changes we want to make, I don't like the granite in the kitchen so changing it, and a few other updates with fixtures and painting the interior, but all in all, it's perfect.

 I'm so excited to get settled and right at my favorite time of year - Fall! The front porch will be filled with pumpkins and mums, two rocking chairs with Fall themed pillows. I picture chilly mornings with the horses shroud in fog as I sit on the back screened porch, cuddled under a knit blanket with my morning coffee. Even though we'll miss our current home, I see many happy memories being made in the new one.

5 more days to go!

Life

I've been wanting to come back to this space, to write down life like I use to, but I felt like I had to play catch up before I could start again. And there is a lot to catch up! So this space has languished, until I finally decided enough! I'm going to start where I am - today.

So today we are smack dab in the middle of a move!

When we bought our house a little over 7 years ago, we swore this was it. We would never move again. Well, you know what they say - never say never! In the beginning of July, we decided to put our house on the market and it sold on our first open house. Houses right now are selling like hotcakes, some only on the market for hours before being snatched up! It's madness! And that's the madness we entered looking for our new home. We viewed over 20 homes, put in offers for three and lost all three! The searching continued and we finally found "the one" and our offer was accepted. We were too excited, but then reality slowly crept in. We were really moving! Leaving our first home and all it's memories.

There are so many emotions. Excitement, uncertainty, wondering if we did the right thing. We walk around our house now, filled with boxes and messes and mutter we can't believe we're moving. Its bittersweet.

If all goes according to plan we close next week on August 29th. We still have tons of packing to do, and moments of what in the world have we done, but I feel once we move and get settled, we will be happy we embarked on this new journey.

"and suddenly you just know it's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings."