SOLD!

It looks like we are on a new and exciting adventure!  We made an offer on a house closer to the mountains about a month ago.  Buying that house depended on selling ours, and lots of houses in our neighborhood have sat on the market for months.  We worried that our house might not sell for the amount we needed to be able to afford the new house, but the first people who looked at it made an offer and we ultimately got our asking price less $1000 that we agreed to pay for some of their closing costs.  We also have a full price back-up offer waiting and another potential buyer is coming today even though the house has gone into pending status.  We have put so much into our house and it is truly beautiful, so much so that I do have moments in which I question our decision to leave.  Our new house will need many of the same updates that we have already done here.  It is much bigger, though, with ample room for us, our friends and family, teen hang-out time, and general gatherings.  I am hoping that this new house will be the place where all of the kid's friends want to be, as our old house has been for a long time.

  I will post pictures of the new place as soon as we move in and have our own touches in the house.