We have found a home

So after several months of looking on the Internet for homes and then seeing dozens of homes these past couple months, Jake and I have finally found a home we love that (unless there are some unseen hurdles) in about 30 days will finally be ours.

It is pretty cute (as you can see above). It fits our lifestyle really well. Even a extra room to make an office. Also there is an Arizona Room that will be the perfect playroom. Therefore, in this new house the boy's rooms will just be there rooms they sleep in. No more eating in their bedrooms, no more coloring in their rooms, no more puzzles and no more toys everywhere around the house. Well I am sure they will try to bring toys everywhere but at least in this house there will be a designated area for toys. It is only about a mile or two away from where we live now which is nice cause we like this area.

What is even better with this home is that we are buying it after the real estate bubble that occurred a few years ago. We bought our first home in 2006 and it was during the bubble. Needless to say because of the bad mortgages being sold at that time and how inflated the price of the home was, we didn't have that house for long. Just for an idea how bad the bubble made the price of a home back then - this home we are going to buy is going to have a mortgage payment of almost $900 less than the home we bought in 2006 and the actual price of the home is almost $140,000 less than our old home.

I am happy this home will be affordable and that we can make it a nice home for our family. Of the almost 8 years we've been married we have only had about 6 months that we had a place to call our own. Now we will hopefully be moved and semi-settled before Brody starts kindergarten.

Not only those positives but also when it comes time for someone to kick us out of this house we are in, we won't be homeless!!