We Found One!

Greetings from Minnesota!  I hope everyone has had a great weekend.  We have been very busy since arriving here on Thursday.  We looked at houses on Friday and Saturday and found a great home for our family of three!  We kept going back and forth between this house and a custom built neighborhood and something just felt really right about this house.  The best part is that it is a finished home that we can move into with a few weeks of arriving.  They are going to finish the basement for us so that will take a bit of time, but the home is done and ready to go!

It has so many great features and the quality is very impressive.  It isn't my dream kitchen with white cabinets and dark floors, but my island is unique and painted so I can deal!!!  It is way more home than we could possibly use, but we got such a great deal that we couldn't pass it up.  The thing that sold it for us was looking out the windows while in the house and watching kids going up and down the street and running through the backyards.  Wrap it up... we are home!  We signed the papers Saturday night.

Today we visited the house and neighbors came out from all over to say "hello".  Jemma started playing with the 5 year old girl and 7 year old boy next door immediately.  While we were in the house, a gaggle of girls ranging in age from 5 to 8 or 9 were running through the backyard.  It just felt so right!  God is good and has answered our prayers to find the right spot to raise our daughter for however long we are here.

Without further ado... our new house!

It is blue which reminded me so much of my beloved Charleston homes and for the first time ever... I have a FRONT PORCH!!!!   I can't tell you how much this excites me!  I see a swing and rocking chairs in my future!

I will share more pictures soon.  I took a ton today, but they were all blurry!  When I try to get fancy with my husband's point and shoot, it just never works!

We hit Ikea today.  Oh how I love it and it is 19 minutes from my new house!  The hubs may be in trouble!  Not to mention we went in the Mall of America to eat only as the mall was closed, but OH MY STARS!!!!  There are no words!!!!  

Thank you all for your sweet comments while we go through this crazy business.  I can't tell you how much your words have encouraged me and let me know that this is all going to be o.k.  It means so much and I know that no matter where I go, I will have my blogging buddies!