New House

To begin our house hunting trip we left the Saturday before Easter and drove to Charlotte (where we stayed in a hotel - a very important point for the girls as they LOVE hotels...especially the pool and jumping from bed to bed)  We met up with D's dad Pappa and his wife Weecie.  They took the girls back to their house in SC and we flew out to find our new home .

We looked at all of the houses that met our criteria (which really was not that strict) on Monday, made an offer on Tuesday, accepted their counter on Tuesday (and simultaneously we accepted an offer on our house back in VA on Tuesday too), did the home inspection on Wednesday, made our list of repair requests on Thursday, and got it all worked out on Friday.  So we are set to go on the new home!  We are pretty close on this end too.  Just had the inspection done yesterday and are waiting to hear back from it....I am nervous about that cause you just never know what's up in these older houses. (UPDATE: minor issues and the buyers accepted our cash in lieu of repairs!! Whew!)

Here are some pictures of our new house.  It is just over 2600 square feet and yes we realize that it looks like a castle.  All of the houses on this one street look like castles.  This was D's main complaint about the house...that and the fact that the front door is actually on the side of the house.  But after seeing all the houses in (and out) of our budget, it was the clear winner.

Front of the house.

Back of the house.  The one thing that we are going to do asap is put up a fence so that I can release the girls into the backyard with minimal supervision.  Apparently we have to get that approved by the HOA.

Kitchen

Dining area

Den looking back toward the kitchen.  Only complaint is that we wished this room were just a bit bigger.

My mom office - which is just off the kitchen and right where you come in from the garage.

Speaking of - we have a garage again!!  What a treat!