Our New Future Home!

Since we have sold our home we have been looking for a new house for a long time now and have had every emotion possible especially feeling anxious that time was running out and we wouldn't have a home to move into come the end of May. Well our patience paid off because "our house" was almost ready for us and it certainly wasn't in the neighborhood we were looking at. There is some work we need to do on it but overall it's in great shape! We absolutely LOVE it! LOVE it! LOVE it!


It was a foreclosure and so there were a lot more hoops to jump through but thanks to Grandpa Wayne he made it all possible for us. He called me today to let me know they accepted our offer and the official contract will be here in a few days. EEEEEKKKKK! So EXCITED!


I love the window on the right corner- that's my kitchen where I'll grow fresh herbs to cook with and maybe a couple of African violets too.


That bay window is the breakfast area and there's a small area between the garage and the fence that goes along past the back of the garage, there's another picture of it later, that's where I'll grow my small garden.

This is one of my favorite parts, yes I know its a street; at the end of the street is the elementary school. They can walk to school! Being the paranoid mom I am, I'll still wait for them at the corner but Avery can't wait to be a "walker". And in this neighborhood it's safe. Our home is like the second from the end of the cul de sac which is another thing we love!

So this is the entry. I LOVE the wood floors! To the right is the dining room, carpeted for some odd reason.

The carpeted dining room that leads to the kitchen. We have a different chandelier that we will put in.

My new kitchen and the windows that will be growing herbs soon! : ) And yes the previous owners took a lot of things from the house including ALL the appliances and the kitchen door handles and drawer pulls. Again LOVIN the wood floors!!

This might be one of my favorite parts. The island has stainless on it! We get to buy a cooktop for it as well. I was reading http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/ about all the different surfaces she has in hers and I liked the idea of stainless and was ecstatic that it was in "our house!"

I love the chef's desk too. Yes, the oven and microwave have been taken and will be replaced with a double oven and microwave. We need to get handles and doorknobs for the pantry too.

This is the breakfast area that goes into the mud room, which has room for another fridge and has a 1/2 bath too. There is also another closet that we might make a extra pantry. We're going to pull out that old intercom box too and put a collage of pictures or just one big picture there. All the utilities are off so we're not sure what works. The initial inspection stated that everything works but they check the big things like faucets. There is a soft spot on the wood floor in this area and I'm hoping that we can save it; if not we'll have to tile from the kitchen to the mudroom.

Love the living room with the fireplace, wood floors, shelves and big windows. We are both grateful that there's no wood panneling on the walls that we'd have to paint.

The other side of the living room with the door to master bedroom, wet bar, and a back door.

Our lovely, : P master bathroom. The tub is super tiny and we plan on making it a large shower. I think the brass will have to go also.

And we follow the little big man up the stairs. I told the kids the first thing we need to do is teach Josh to climb down the stairs on his tummy. We'll have gates for a while of course but until he's more steady we all need to watch this busy boy around the stairs. I'd hate to have another child get stitches.

This is the gameroom at the top of the stairs. I love the cathedral ceiling. The kids three bedrooms are up here as well as two bathrooms and lots of storage.

Yes I LOVE this too! The upstairs fireplace and the balcony overlooking the backyard! The carpet has a few stains in it but is in fairly good shape. It's a shag carpet in a good neutral color.

This is a little playhouse addition to the back of the garage. It's pretty cute! It's small but painted pink inside with rose accents. My future garden is just past the little house between the lattice and fence.

This is our new backyard. Yes there is a spa but I'm not so sure if we're going to keep it or not. I love the covered patio and upstairs balcony! I'm so excited to move into this house and start a new chapter of our lives. This is the house we are going to grow old in and we love it! It's about a mile from the Houston temple, another plus!

We've met a bunch of our future neighbors and they all seem super nice. The neighbor on the opposite side of this fence, shown in the picture, is the assistant school nurse- she walks to work! Another neighbor across the street has her house up for sale and actually gave Spencer a tour of her home hoping we'd buy hers instead. Yeah, that didn't happen. Guess you get special treatment being in HFD uniform. : )