Home, Sweet Home...

Just over a week ago, Nate and I went on a little weekend house hunting trip to Colorado Springs.

Things were not working in our favor!  We got there on Friday night and met up with the realtor on Saturday morning to find out that many of the homes we wanted to see had offers in on them and were pending.  

Huge disappointment!  

On top of that, it was really foggy and kinda drizzling rain almost all day.  We couldn't see the city much at all, couldn't see the mountains, really just couldn't see much at all!  

We found some homes we like, but there seemed to be something about each of them that we didn't like.

First house was really nice with new carpet and paint, probably would have bought it, but the neighborhood was the problem, just kinda run down.

Another house we liked looked really great, but then we walked into the backyard to find that there was an old swimming pool filled in with dirt that they were trying to disguise as landscaping.  Pretty much no backyard for the kids to play in and no way to fix it.

On the next one, Nate and the realtor were walking around, after the initial look through, talking about what would need to be done with it, and I went to check out the backyard some more.  I looked out of the sliding glass door and saw some huge dogs in the neighbors backyard.  I opened the door and 3 huge... I mean HUGE! great danes run over to the fence and jump up on it and start barking.  The fence was about 6 feet tall, wooden and waving a bit under the weight of those dogs!  

Really??  No wonder that house hasn't sold!  Could you imagine Brynlee, my child who is afraid of puppies?  She would fear that backyard!  Those dogs scared me, and they are 3 times the size of Brynlee!  Pretty sure that wouldn't work!

On Sunday we set out to look some more.  This time the weather was much better, we could see the city and the mountains, and we found 2 houses we liked! 

We ended up having time to walk around the Garden of the Gods that evening.

On Monday, Nate and I went to the hospital so he could sign some paperwork.  Then we went to a storage unit to decide if we wanted to rent one.  Then we drove around for a bit checking things out.

It was fun to get home to see Brynlee and Gracen!  We have some awesome friends here that took them for the weekend for us...and spoiled them while they had them!

I haven't spent much time away from my kids.  It may have been harder on me than it was on them!  I am grateful that they handled it well, and seemed to have been pretty well behaved!

Big thanks to our friends who helped us out by taking them!

Finally, we decided this past week on a house we wanted to put an offer on.  We found out today that we got it!!  It was done on a bid type offer, it's a foreclosure, so it will need new carpet and paint.  It needs a little cosmetic work in the bathrooms and kitchen.  

Brynlee giggled at the fact that it has a PINK toilet!  

We thought she might like it, but we decided not to keep it. 

We definitely have a little work to do, but we're excited to make it our own!  Some other great things about it are that it is just a few miles away from the hospital, and on the west side of town near the entrance to Garden of the Gods.

This is it!  Looks a little different in person...better than the picture!  It has a nice yard, and big backyard for the kids!  We're pretty excited!

Nate starts his residency the end of June.  We are moving from Sandusky in just over a week and will be storing our stuff in a storage unit while we visit family in Utah until after we close and get the work done on the house that we want to.

We're so excited (and a bit nervous) to finally have a home!