New House

I thought I would give you a link to the listing for the house we are buying. I do not know how long it will be active now that we have signed on it. There is more to see and we will post pictures when we move in.
http://hfe.buffaloniagarahomes.com/property/detail.cfm?mlnum=276600&property_type=1#
It is situated in the town of Ransomville but as you will discover if you visit us, country is all around. We are a short walk away from where Kaleb will go to school. Joshua will be bussed to the middle school in the next town over. The church is a half mile away. We will have to take photos of that as well to show you later.
The house sits on about an acre and has plenty of open lawn for the boys. It is a bit bigger than our current house and has 4 bedrooms and 2 baths. I am going to love having my own bathroom!! At one time it was a 3 bed, 1 bath home but they converted what was a single car garage into a master bedroom and bath. The kitchen is quite small, dark and poorly set up, if you ask me. There is no dishwasher so we plan to try out a couple of new models...the Kaleb & Josh XP...we'll let you know if they're any good!! Our family entertains a lot and this house is not designed to accommodate many people at this point. The thing that would make this house ideal is to knock out the walls to the 4th bedroom to create a large open kitchen/dining/living room area. That will require time and money so we shall see. The basement is finished and offers a large additional space for my stamping studio and rec room. The house is in good condition and other than some initial decorating items we won't have too much to tackle. There is a 2 car detached garage which makes Greg happy. We will need to install garage door openers to make it complete. Oh yeah...and buy a riding lawn mower to put in it.
I do want to add a word about the sale of our house for those of you who have not heard. We listed it late on a Tuesday and our realtor told us we'd have a days notice on showings. On Wednesday we attended a luncheon at church for Greg and when my mom and I returned at 2:30 we had a message that someone was coming at 5:30! So much for notice!! I phoned Greg at work and demanded he come home immediately and we raced for 3 hours to get it ready. We had done a lot already but it wasn't show ready by any means!! I was still watching kids in my home and there was just stuff everywhere. Thank goodness my mom was here to help. By Saturday morning we had shown the house 6 times and by Saturday night we had 2 offers!! We had a non contingent, cash offer very close to our asking price. Is God good or what?! We know that it was a wonderful confirmation that this IS what we are supposed to do and WHERE we are supposed to go. Greg and Dad are finishing the deck to the pool as I write and after that it is a matter of packing up. We close on our house on July 26th and on the new house on July 27. It is amazing!!
Greg has a post he is writing up to share his last camping trip with the kids so check back.
Blessings!!