Moving!

After several years of tossing around the idea of a different house, we finally decided it was time. Last summer we met with our realtor, Patti (she is AMAZING - call her if you are thinking about buying or selling a house!), and started the process. Her decorator came and told us what to change to get the house ready to show and then Patti's recommendation was to use summer to prepare the house and list in the fall. After a minor panic attack, we adjusted our timeline to be ready to list this spring.

Pretending to help repaint the basement

Actually helping repaint the basement!

In March we contacted Patti again to get back on track. Her decorator would be leaving for Florida a few weeks after that so we quickly set a date for staging and scrambled to clear out enough and finish small projects to prepare for that. Staging was a whirlwind of clearing out, rearranging, bringing in new artwork and furniture, and giving our house a facelift. It. Was. Crazy.

All the staging stuff ready to return to Patti once the house was sold. I
don't have a picture of the giant pile of our stuff we moved out of the house
and into my parent's garage 

About a week later, Patti's photographer came in to take photos of the house and a few days after that, our listing went live! We almost immediately had showings scheduled, showed 11 times over that first evening and second day, and were able to accept an offer that evening. We were thankful for how quickly it went because keeping a house ready to show with young kids is not easy - "Why are you in this room? What did you touch? Put that back! Leave those pillows there. That's not ours..."

Life was not yet back to normal, though. Selling our house meant we had a short timeline before we would become homeless so we started seriously hunting for our new home. Dax and Addy tagged along for a lot of the house hunting and LOVED choosing where to look first and deciding which room would be theirs in each house. We saw lots of nice houses and some not so nice houses, but none that were "the one."

Snack break in the back of the van during a day of house hunting

After a little over a week we were starting to feel nervous and Patti suggested we take a look at some spec/inventory homes. When builders are working on developing a neighborhood, they will typically take some of the lots and build houses even if they haven't had someone purchase it yet. They are still new, but the buyer doesn't get to make decisions as the houses are either already complete or in progress, but with materials already ordered. We looked in several neighborhoods across a few different builders and one Sunday afternoon we found our forever home!

Dax's class mascot, Buddy Bear, got to visit our house one day.

We could not be more excited to move into our new house and get settled into our new space and routines! If you are available mid-June, feel free to swing by to pack a box or two ;)