Under Contract!!

As if we don't have enough going on with a new (adorable, sweet, lovable, amazing, wonderful best-ever) baby...Jason and I are under contract for HOUSE!!!  If you have read probably even one post on this blog you know how much we have wanted a house since we left Chicago and God willing, this is finally happening.

Last year we were in the market for a house but after searching and taking Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University we decided to pay off my grad school loans and wait on the house. While we knew this was the "right" thing to do, it was incredibly hard not knowing if and when we really would ever be able to move into a house. Then we got pregnant and the thought of having Jason working from home and needing an office and the baby having to share his office as his nursery wasn't the ideal situation. (especially considering we want our family and friends to visit and they would need a room or somewhere to put a bed!) So we decided to start looking at rental houses and quickly learned that the rental market here is very expensive! (our rent is also going up significantly in April if we were to stay here.)  We took a look at our budget and the amount of money we have saved since the loans were paid off and figured out what we could afford. It wasn't near what would buy us for what we want in a house but we had enough to start looking and a mortgage would also be around the same price of renting a house if not less. We started our hunt, (love Zillow!)

We looked at a Hud house and while Jason really loved it, I wasn't 100% sold and it was a gamble because there would need to be a lot of work put into it. We found a few more houses we wanted to see but in this market houses are off the market in sometimes just a day or two. All the homes we wanted to look at were already under contract!  (seriously the market here is ridiculous when you're the buyer!)

Jason found a home he liked that I had already passed driving by before her suggested it and I decided I didn't like because it was a corner lot off a through street. But I went to appease him. From the second we walked in the door we were in love! Let me just say that our new price range was well under what we ever thought we would need to spend to get what we wanted in a house. We had looked on Zillow plenty and even by looking way east (which we didn't want) we still couldn't find more than a 3 bedroom or it would back up to a major street and a million other things (needing major updating, 1 car garage, terrible location, bad schools, a tri-level, no back yard, no basement, etc.) This house had EVERYTHING we wanted! Everything and then some. It's 4 bedrooms - Jason can have his own office and each of our kids (we would like to have 2) can have their own. It has a finished basement too with a bathroom downstairs, who wants to visit!? The yard is small but typical of Colorado and there is plenty of grass for Cooper and the kids to play. Plus we're within a mile of a huge state park and reservoir and Coopers favorite dog park. Everything has been updated including bathrooms and kitchen. There's a huge bathtub for me! It's in the school district we want and is very centrally located by a highway, tons of shopping and restaurants very close. There's amazing mountain views and just has everything we want! The only downfalls is the kitchen is tiny and it's off a through street and is very close to a major street. Being that we're from Chicago the noise of traffic won't bother either of us and it's really not even loud! Everything else is just perfect and for the price that we offered is just amazing that we're getting everything we wanted at a price we can afford! Praise God!

Please keep us and the closing in your prayers.We originally were scheduled to close 2/28 but the sellers are moving early so we bumped it up to THIS FRIDAY! Lucas is going to have his own room as early as this weekend! We are just so excited!