We spent 4 months looking at houses on side by side iPad's, then another year looking at A LOT of houses in literally a 2 mile square. Finally, we made an offer on a house off of Telegraph Rd. the neighborhood was beautiful and the house sat on a little over .5 acre but as we did it I said to Brad, "if this offer isn't accepted, let's start looking up Valley View Drive again." The next day the update email from our realtor came and there it was, the house we were meant to own. It had just about everything we were looking for a few bonus items too. (A deck that only had 3 steps to the grassy yard, a beautiful fence we didn't have to replace any time soon). So we did what any sane house hunters would do after just putting down an offer on another house 24 hours ago, we called our realtor and said we had to see this new house up Valley View.
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| Signing the papers in August |
Two days later we walked around with the 7 year old for 45 minutes and said we want this one, pull the other offer. A week later they accepted our offer and we were all of a sudden, after talking about it for so long, buying a house and moving from our beloved Manchester Crossings neighborhood and the -friends we had made there. Granted it was only 2.2 miles away and we still see them, talk to them and plan to hang with them for the annual get togethers, but we don't see them every day while walking Myles anymore. Piper doesn't seem Kamryn on a daily basis and I don't get to see Jeannine or Christine, Betsy or Carrie every day just because I am outside with Myles or Piper. On the other hand, I don't see Matt at 6 am while in my PJ's and coffee cup in hand standing on the front stoop with Myles either.
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Brad 'carrying' us over the
threshold! |
We've been here now for about 6 weeks and hosted our first party the other night. It was to celebrate Brad's birthday and a little house warming too. I am hosting Bunco next week and am so excited, I will finally have the room to host my friends and at the same time the rest of my family won't be inconvenienced . After spending the past 11 years in a two bedroom townhouse moving to this single family home is such a treat. We loved our little townhouse and miss it every day, we made the most of every bit of space and I had such a great set up in my kitchen. Now I sometimes feel like we are starting over with somethings and yet I know that they are little and can be changed in time. I guess this entry will be ongoing as we go about making those changes. The only major one so far was updating the hardwood floors and staircase.
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Now, everyone is happy, even Myles. He has a ramp he can use to go down to the grass (proving that even old dogs can learn new tricks), he has made some new friends with the three Weimaraner dogs next door. He even goes out front whenever, Max the other black lab in the neighborhood wanders up to our front door.
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Last time at our little
townhouse in the old 'hood. |
Two days later we walked around with the 7 year old for 45 minutes and said we want this one, pull the other offer. A week later they accepted our offer and we were all of a sudden, after talking about it for so long, buying a house and moving from our beloved Manchester Crossings neighborhood and the -friends we had made there. Granted it was only 2.2 miles away and we still see them, talk to them and plan to hang with them for the annual get togethers, but we don't see them every day while walking Myles anymore. Piper doesn't seem Kamryn on a daily basis and I don't get to see Jeannine or Christine, Betsy or Carrie every day just because I am outside with Myles or Piper. On the other hand, I don't see Matt at 6 am while in my PJ's and coffee cup in hand standing on the front stoop with Myles either. 
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