Goodbye Condo, Hello House!

So, exciting news!! Our condo finally sold, thank the Lord. No literally THANK the LORD. If it was not for His perfect timing and plan we would not be in our beautiful new house. I feel so blessed. I am so excited for SPACE. For anyone that has never lacked space, well you just won't understand. But for those that have started off small and then are suddenly in a home with space....well it is something I won't be taking for granted...even when I have to clean it :)

Our condo had been on the market since January (for the second time) and we were beyond the hopeless stage. I do not know what emotion is lower than hopeless but we were there. We truly thought we would be in that condo for a lot longer, due to the state the market is in. But God had His hand working and wanted to drive the patience lesson completely home before He brought along the perfect people to buy it. Through a series of events, that were all totally God-oriented, the right people entered the condo and made an offer. We were truly shocked and really felt like we were in a dream and going to wake up to find that yet again we were waking up in the condo. Though there was some whining, some tears, some frustration, some anger, some bitterness, and lots of questioning, we are here and we feel so blessed. Our prayer is that our new home would first of all be used for the Glory of God, that it would be filled with happy memories, lots of love and lots of laughter. Thank you for all of you that have been praying for us during this time.

When looking for our new home we had a long list of must-haves. I mean come on, we had lots of time to dream :) I must say, that this house hit most of our must haves and has lots of little extras, including a POOL. We have no idea how to take care of a pool, but we know that there will be lots of memories made in it.

This is a house that our family can grow in to and we can see our family in for a long time to come. Five bedrooms, 3 full baths. Our first priority in our house hunting was location. We wanted needed to be closer to Adam's office. For our family, Adam's commute, and my sanity. It was taking Adam at least 45 minutes to get home and he was not leaving the office until 6:15 or so. You do the math. You stay at home moms know, that is a long day. A LONG day. So, our new house is 15 minutes from the office. And when I say 15 minutes, not a minute more, even in horrible traffic. The last two night have been amazing!!

There is a long list of things we need to do to make the house our home, as in any house you buy. Every wall needs to be painted and there are four rooms that need wallpaper taken down before we can even paint those. Luckily, I am not one of those people that cannot live with it for a bit while I decide what colors to paint. We have bought some furniture (we actually sold our living room furniture with the condo, so we just had to buy new furniture, which I was not excited about at all ;) ) and then Adam and Adam's dad are building some pieces for us.

I am in love with our new house. I just keep thinking how blessed we are and thanking the Lord for this wonderful gift. I hope that we can use it the way He wants us to.

So here are some pictures, cause I am sure everyone would rather look at pictures than read my blog. Just a warning. These are pictures we took during a walk through after we were under contract. So it is all the original owner's furniture and decor ;)

Formal living room when you walk in the front door to the right.

Entry way.

Entry way again.

Guest bedroom on main floor to the left when you walk in the front door. Gotta love the wallpaper.

Downstairs full bathroom.

Main living room. I definitely wanted open concept and tall ceilings. Check, Check.

Family room again. Pool is right outside the two windows on far wall.

Kitchen and eating area. Lyla loves having her meals served to her at the bar. Especially since we have no kitchen table right now. My father-in-law is building it.

Kitchen.

Formal dining off the kitchen. Connected to formal living.

Master bedroom which is upstairs.

Master bathroom.

Double sinks...must have.

Giant soaker tub. Lyla loves this feature. Separate shower.

Lyla's room. Very girly, yes?

Lyla's bathroom.

Third bedroom upstairs.

Bonus room also known as Lyla's playroom. The floor is currently covered in toys. You cannot even see the floor. I love it. I love that she has this space and that is can stay messy!!

So these are the before pictures. You will have to wait for the after. We are excited to get started creating our space.