Wow, it's been a while! I have a reason though. Things with us have been pretty busy, but we are all settled down and so happy. Back in November we listed our home on the market, we thought it would take a year to sell and that would give us time to find a new home or build a home. Well, the house sold in 30 days! We moved completely out on December 26th, and moved into a rental home in Dover. Wasn't all about the renting, but we needed a place to camp till we figured out what to do, build or buy! We were fully moved in on the 1st of January and rent was cheap, so we wanted to be in that home for a year and save more money to put toward building of buying. On the 11th of Jan. the owner told us that he sold the house and we have till February 19th to be out! Yeah, no kidding. We looked all over princeton, Wyanet and Tiskilwa for a place to rent and nothing was open, cause we have a dog too! There was nothing on the market that we liked and we didn't want to buy just to get into a house. At the same time, the building numbers came back and wasn't in our price range to do so. That is our dream, to build some day, but that "someday" isn't coming anytime soon. Steve and I had an awesome realtor! She told us about a house that was going on the market sometime in May. We didn't want to wait that long and wanted to see it asap, so she set it up. When we were waiting in the driveway for her to show up, Steve and I were already in love! The owners wanted to touch things up a bit, but we wanted the house "as is". Who's to say that the work they do, Steve and I will like, just take it off the top asking price and we can do it the way we want. They didn't mind that at all. The day we looked at the house was the day we put in an offer (Monday), by that Thursday the house was ours. We also got pre-ownership of the home so we could move in and have a place to live before closing.
We are now in a beautiful subdivision in Princeton called Greencroft! We are so happy, and can't wait for summer to take a walk around our new neighborhood and meet our neighbors. Steve and I have big plans for the house, but for right now we are just stripping wallpaper (cause it's in every room of the house) and putting paint on the walls. We will then be looking at flooring and maybe next year getting new cabinets, countertop and appliances.
The kids are so excited about the house too, Ava loves that she has her own princess balcony. Mommy and Daddy are not too thrilled about that, but we will have to get over it. Noah just loves that he now has the biggest room in the house so all the toys are in his room. Ava wants her room painted purple again with pink curtains, so we will picking a weekend to do that for her too. Noahs room can wait, he already has red carpet and blue walls........yuk i know, but it looks kind of nice and it's boyish.
Noah's first birthday is coming on the 1st of March. Time has sure flown by! Im wanting another baby already, but I know that it just not going to happen. Two kids is enough, since I have one of each, I shouldn't be greedy. Well till next time, im going to sign off here!