Busy Busy

Sorry, I haven't blogged in a bit. As you read in our previous blog, Brock and I are on the hunt for a new home. Most of our time has been spent doing research on the internet and going to open houses.

This weekend was no exception. Well a small one as my mother came down for a visit from Chicago on Saturday. It was a nice visit and pretty uneventful.

But Sunday we were back at it. We had 4 houses on our list to see. One was in a new subdivision that is opening up which we ended up just driving by and scratching from our list. It was way on the south end of town and it looked like more of a hassle to see then it was worth. Another one one our list was extremely dated and the layout was just plain strange. Closet space wasn't that great. There also was in the same subdivision as our sitter. It was a nice home, but it didn't really excite us. This was probably because of the first house that we went to. It just plain spoiled us. The layout was great, the master closet was amazing (I know it's hard to get excited about closet space but we were), the storage was fabulous, the laundry room was awesome (another thing most would not be excited about). While we haven't put in an offer for many reasons, one being that we definitely have to get our house sold first, it is one that is currently on the top of our list. The only downfall that we saw was that it backs up to a major street but that shouldn't be a problem with the 6 ft privacy fence. Right now I'm going on that if it is meant to be it will happen.

Today, Brock and I will meet with a mortgage officer to see about a contingency pre-qualification to determine how much of a loan we can get and how much we can afford (which normally is two different things. Next, we'll really start working on getting this house on the market. We both just think it is time, we have well over grown this house and while we both love this house (it was our first home and the home we brought our first child home to), it is definitely time to consider a move.