Trading Spaces

I painted over our red walls as a courtesy to our "landlords" (remember, we're renters now) because...we are hoping to move in a month!









We are trading in our cute little house with a big backyard for this nice big house with not a lot of yard, and we are VERY excited about it! Our offer has been accepted, home inspection completed, and the appraisal has been ordered. If all goes well, we'll close mid July!















I love the kitchen and all the extra room we're going have. It's more than twice the size of our current home of 1187 sq.ft. We'll have some unfurnished rooms for a while, but that's ok. We'll slowly fill them up. We're just going to enjoy all the space for now.










I also love the bonus room upstairs that will be a playroom--never had a playroom before!
















We'll have four bedrooms as well as a den/office. Two kids will still share for now (Joel & Aubs now, other duos later), but we've got options if we want to make the den into another bedroom down the road. We currently have Kari, Joel, and Aubrey all in the same tiny room, with night-waker Grant in his own room. People have asked, "How is that working, three kids in one room?" And our response is,"Not very well, but we're making it work." We are very much looking forward to having that extra bedroom!

The house was built in 2007 but has never been occupied, so it's like we're moving into a brand new house. Crazy! The yard has not been landscaped and will take quite a bit of work to get it up to snuff and functional, but there's room for the trampoline, which was the main condition. We'll have room for a patio and garden, too, eventually.

We are in awe of the fact that God is allowing us to buy this beautiful home in the exact area we wanted to live and that we've been able to rent our own house for the last two months while we looked and waited. Kari will get to continue at East Orient (and live in the same neighborhood as lots of school friends), and Joel will join her there for kindergarten in the fall. We are feeling truly blessed.

*I was going to wait to post this because of the blog "jinx" phenomenon, but I just couldn't wait any longer. We're excited!