So we have moved and are settling in nicely. There are rooms that I would like to paint, gardens I would like to plant, and things I would like to decorate, but for the most part, we are good.
Let me just say that purchasing this house was pretty smooth but selling our house was quite bumpy. It was just challenging because our buyers were first time buyers and their realtor was relatively new to the game so things were not as seemless as the purchase of our home. We were originally supposed to close on June 1st, and the day before all that fell through. There were crazy last minute negotiations, electricity was cut off, people decided not to close, then changed their minds...it was just a nail biter. My stomach was in knots and I never felt like I could breathe until I was lying in my bed in the new house.
But it all worked out and we now live in a beautiful subdivision in our town called Northwood Estates. I love it here!!! Our neighbors have been so friendly, bringing us cookies and bread, helping us move, bringing care packages etc. It was the right decision for us. God was watching out for us in more ways than one.
So here are a few photos of the new place. Nothing is 100% finished but we are so happy with it! I haven't taken photos of some of the rooms yet, so this is as good as it gets...
The living room: (and you can kind of see the kitchen)
The hallways:
The dining room:
My office:
Our bedroom:
Caleb's bedroom:
Jansen's bedroom:
The boys' bathroom:
The half bath:
The game room: (this one will take the longest as we change it into a Texans room)
The pool area:
We are so happy with it. It has everything I could ask for...a three car garage with an extra slab for a 4th car or a camper, a huge space above the garage to make a game room or possibly an apartment for Caleb if he needs it, plenty of space, a corner lot, an open floorplan, it's a dream come true for us. We are abundantly blessed!
We moved into our new home on a Friday and we were unpacking all through the weekend. On Monday, the police came by issuing voluntary evacuations as they were sure we were going to flood.
Well we stayed and it flooded, but thankfully it didn't get into the house...we didn't have flood insurance yet and we had just moved in!
Basically we were trapped in our house for 9 days. Our streets were flooded and were only open to residents with big trucks. Josh has a jacked up truck so he was able to make it out to work every day, but I wasn't because I have an Equinox. So the kids and I were stuck here. There were police officers at the front of our subdivision only letting in residents. Thankfully, we were able to meet a lot of our neighbors because people were out checking out all of the craziness. There were people kayaking through the streets, fishing off their driveways...it was crazy!
On day #9, I was finally able to get out with my car. It felt amazing to just drive through the town. It wasn't the way we ever imagined our first two weeks would be in our new home but it was a blessing in disguise. Our neighbors are so friendly! I just know we are going to love living here.
My Jansen is 11 and for his birthday we rented our town's little building to have a place to eat food, and then we had a game truck come in and park in the parking lot.
This was the coolest and easiest birthday yet.
It just happened to be going on in the busiest of all days...two award ceremonies, I had a job interview, our electricity got cut off because the people buying our house scheduled a name change over two days early, pick up the cake, decorate and host Jansen's party. I was exhausted!
He chose to have a Sonic themed party. I bought a few decorations off of Etsy, got some ideas from Pinterest, and started putting things together. The decorations turned out really nice, if I do say so myself. Thanks to Oriental Trading Company for most of the supplies.
Sweet T's made this awesome cake...it was delicious and Jansen LOVED it!
The adults were able to chill out in the building eating pizza while the kids went outside into the game truck to play with an attendant there to supervise them. So fun and super easy!
My baby is 11 and I am so proud of him!
