One Happy Family Will Soon Live Here!

Well we did it, we found a house!  The story is long, so I will cut to the chase...

After seeing nearly 70 homes in Arizona, divided between 2 trips (taken during consecutive weekends) we checked out this house as a last resort.

This was a dream come true, original owners selling one seriously pampered home right in our price range. After seeing countless foreclosures in a wide range of conditions, we knew that this house was special.  Call it love at first sight if you will, but when we walked in to this house we knew it was meant to be our home.   

This house offers us so much more than we ever expected in a first home...5 bedrooms, 2500 sq. ft., within walking distance to the elementary school and our church building, close to Jeremy's office and lots of fun shopping/restaurants, not to mention the huge backyard!  

We put in an offer on the spot and then jumped in the car to head back to California. Two hours into our drive we and got news that our offer was accepted!  We are going through escrow now and we are scheduled to close by November 17th (or sooner)!  Our plan at this point is to move November 20th, which coincidentally would be one year to the day that we moved in with my parents last year! 

Here are some pictures of the house (these are the sellers pictures not ours)...

 Entry and Formal Living & Dinning Room

 Huge Kitchen (I LOVE this space) I already have tons of project in mind here!!!

 Family Room another space I've been dreaming of redoing

 Downstairs Office (YAY!!! I can't wait to spread out here!)

 Kid Bedroom

 Kid Bedroom

 Kid Bedroom, that we will use as a play room for now

 Master Bedroom is larger than it looks (the owners bed is a monster!)

 Backyard as seen from the balcony (the swing set stays!!!)

 Backyard big enough to play soccer in... this has not escaped Jeremy's attention, ha ha

Garage, Jeremy has been dreaming of tools because of this space

Another view of Jeremy's favorite space. This garage has it all, storage, a/c, ceiling fan, and a TV on the wall.

We feel incredibly blessed to have found such a lovely home and we are so very excited to move in. I can't wait to get a paint brush in my hand and start decorating!