Guess What?

Ready for some exciting news....We're MOVING!! Yep, after lots of looking we've finally found our diamond in the rough. Our new home is in a wonderful Lake Highlands neighborhood with a fabulous Elementary school (exemplary rated by TEA) just down the street. The neighborhood is chock-full of little kids for Rett and Ellie to play with. As you can probably tell, this was our motivation for the move. We wanted our kids to attend a school with a great reputation for academics, AND sports. We wanted them to share classes with neighborhood kids that they could ride bikes with to the park, and walk to each others house on the weekends. We have looked periodically as homes came on the market for the past two years (we really wanted to find the one that we could see ourselves living in until all our children are out of school) and found this one on January 15, 2010. We viewed it on a Saturday, obsessed about it until the following Friday when we submitted our offer. That's when the waiting began. The house was being sold as a "short-sale" so we were communicating directly with the bank rather than the individual owner. Apparently, banks work very slowly. We finally heard back from them on March 15th (2 months later!!) that they accepted our offer! Pending a good inspection we should close mid-april and we have a projected move-in date of May 1st.

What's the house like you ask? It is a spacious 2,100 sq ft home with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a playroom and office! It has lots of potential. I will divulge more later as I plan on documenting the enire renovation/move on my blog. Here's a sneak-peek of what you'll be driving up to when you come to visit: