A home big enough for FOUR

Surprise! I'm finally ready to share a post about buying our new home along with our other big announcement! Are you ready for this amazing story?????

 {Play Room}

Back at the beginning of June, we had been planning to stay in our previous townhouse. We liked the location and decided that we would probably sign a lease for another year. We had been trying for another baby, but decided that maybe it wouldn't happen for a while. The week we were going to resign our lease, we found out some information about our townhouse that made us wonder if maybe we should start looking for a home.

{Kitchen}

So on a Thursday afternoon I put in a call to my best friend's mom, who happens to be a realtor. At this point we were interested in looking, but really not set either way. She found a few homes in our area and sent us a link to look at them. Honestly, we didn't have tons of options. Based on the location we needed for ministry and our price range, we were able to find four houses. We decided on Friday that we would go look at the houses on Saturday morning, and if we liked something - great - and if not maybe we would have to sign at least a short lease at our old place. 

We ended up absolutely loving the very first house we saw! Based on location and the photos online, this was the one that had jumped out at us most and I liked it the minute we walked in. It had a bigger kitchen than where we had been, a big open living room for us to use for youth ministry, a space for a playroom, big closets, and 3 bedrooms. This was honestly exactly what I had been praying for over the past year. I never wanted a huge home, and when I prayed through what I felt like we would need to have space for children and ministry, this was it.

{Dining Area}

We saw the house around 10 AM Saturday morning and we under contract with it by 5 PM that same night. The housing market out here is hot so we knew we had to make a jump on it fast. We were actually able to make a lower offer than market price - and they accepted it! Part of the benefit of our offer was that we were needing to move by the end of June, so we agreed in our contract to close in only 3 weeks! This was a plus for the buyer because they were already living out of state and the house was empty.

{Living Room}

Buying a home includes so much paperwork and we had to really work to get it all submitted and approved in time. Wait...did I mention that Ryan was gone for 9 days at camp during this time? So that meant that we had to get things done even faster. 

As we were a few days out from moving - already having boxes packed everywhere we found out that our closing would be pushed back two days due to paperwork...but we had to be out of our old home! We decided to ask the seller if we could rent it from them over a weekend, which our realtor said sellers do not usually prefer to do. I remember just praying and praying as I made dinner that night and we waited to hear back. Then...answered prayer! We found out that they would rent for a few days so we could move out/in as scheduled.

{Master Bedroom}

Here is the best part of the story....I mentioned earlier in the post that we thought we'd have to wait a bit to get pregnant....but 5 days before we moved we found out we were having a BABY!!!! We were so happy and just laughed at God's perfect timing of everything. We are more than thankful to be happily settled into our new home as we are waiting for this baby to arrive.

{Eva's Room}

A big girl room for our big girl! She is so excited to be a big sister! She rubs my belly and talks to the baby all the time. She tries to feed it food through my belly button. She wants to name the baby Grandpa.

In a couple of months we will start working on turning this into an official nursery. Right now Eva is enjoying it as her personal karaoke studio.

After 6 years of marriage...our new home..our growing family. Our sweet baby will be arriving at the end of February!