New Year, New.....

House!! Holy crap!! We bought a new house!  Somehow, between Christmas and New Year's Eve we bought a house. Yes, during the craziest time of the year we bought a house.  I really shouldn't be surprised because it seems kinda like that's how we do things around here. We have been talking about wanting to move for a year or so, and over the past few months we decided that we would get serious "after the holidays." Before we knew it we had seen a few houses, met a realtor, decided to put our house on the market in January, saw more houses, put an offer in, and now we are going to be moving in about a month!

This is extremely exciting, but also very overwhelming. We have SO much to do in these next few weeks. It's going to be crazy moving. I thought it was stressful when just Ray and I moved from our 2 bedroom condo into this house. Now we have 2 extra people in our family who have helped us accumulate a LOT of extra stuff. (the toys...OMG I can't even begin to describe the toys. Puzzle pieces, doll shoes, stuffed animals, things that I have no idea what they are for. I never knew my kids had so many light up things, and pinwheels.  No idea what to do with it all.  On the positive side, this will help us de-clutter!!)

I can't wait to be in our new house. I can't wait to make it a home, and I am so excited for the kids to grow up there. I can't stop looking at the pictures of the house and realizing that we are going to live there. Our (current) house officially went on the market yesterday, and we already have a showing lined up for the weekend.  We're expecting and hoping to get more in the next few days.  It has been very crazy trying to de-clutter and keep the house extra super clean, but we are hoping that we will see our house pretty quickly.

I know things are going to be crazy and hectic these next few weeks, but I also know that it will all work out ok.  Here we are almost 5 years ago on moving day to this house.  Little did we know that the very next day I would get a positive pregnancy test.  We hoped that this house would be where we started our family, and we have been so blessed to have it come true.  I get a little sad thinking of leaving, but I know we have tons of amazing new memories to make in our new house.