Exciting News :)

We FINALLY have a house!

(no baby yet, but hopefully she will be coming SOON!)

If you have followed my blog then you know all about the drama we have been through this past year with building our house. If not then the quick recap is that we sold our previous home in March 2010 and bought a new home that was supposed to be finished being built in Nov or Dec of 2010. Well, long story short the builder has had a LOT of financial issues (that might be the understatement of the year) and our house is still not even close to being finished.

So, Vince and I have been back and forth for months deciding between continuing to wait it out and see if it gets done or getting a lawyer to get us out of the contract and trying to get our money back. Well this past month we decided enough was enough and we wanted completely out of the deal. Our lawyer and the builder went back and forth and we finally terminated the contract last week. (there are still things to sort out involving the money we paid him, but that could take a very long time to figure out in court)

So ANYWAYS... Also during the past month we started our house search again. Last time around I wasn't even pregnant yet when we were looking and my first priority was getting a house of a certain size. However this time around my number one priority was school district (amazing how quickly things change when you start planning around a baby haha) and finding something new but already built (because I was not going to risk going through the same crap we just dealt with).

Basically there are two choices around here (at least that fall in our price range), either buy a big house in a not so good school district, or buy something smaller but in a much better school district. Luckily we found a place that we really like that is brand new (but was just finished by the builder so we don't have to worry about going through the same thing again), has everything we need in it, and is in the good school district (the same school that Vince and I went to).

It's weird because even though it's not the large single family home we had planned on a year ago, we are even happier with this. (and I am making this place sound small which it's not. It's actually still the same square footage as the other house we were building, it's just not a single family home) I truly believe everything happens for a reason and having the opportunity to get a place that was better for Kaylee (and any future kids) turned out to be most important.

We settle on June 10th (which is also my birthday.. Not a bad bday present ;)) and are having someone come in that weekend to paint before we move our furniture in, so once that's done I will post some pictures! 

For now it's just so nice to finally have this all sorted out after a very long (and stressful) year of waiting.