House Update

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We are all out of our old house and starting to get settled at my mom's house.

  Here is the latest new house picture. 

Saying Hello...

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Here is a house update!  Everything is framed...except for the front porch.

  When I stopped by today the windows and front door were waiting in the garage to be installed.  

The brick we chose is red and the siding is white...the shutters and door will be a dark navy blue.  I hope these colors work with the simple lines of the house to create a farmhouse "feel".

  The front porch stretches across the front of the house and will have white railing.

  We should be moving in sometime during June and I cannot wait to put bunting flags on the front porch for the 4th of July!

Saying Goodbye...

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Pshew! I guess saying goodbye to this house is not as easy as I thought it would be.  :(

My friends and family know that I am not one to hang on to "things"...the memories just aren't in the things for me, I can let them go.   Buuuut, it is breaking my heart to say goodbye to the house where my kids went from this:

 

 

 

 

 

To this:

I know this is a sappy love song, but it came to my mind the other day while packing.  Our closing is today, I know the future is really exciting for us!  I AM ready to move forward, just a lot sad to say goodbye.

Disney Art

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It's no secret that we are huge Walt Disney World fans around here!  Say what you will about Disney, commercialism...blah...blah....we have a blast together as a family there and we love it.

  All around the Magic Kingdom they have these amazing vintage posters that I have always loved!  They even have a few locations where they sell posters...however the cheapest ones are $22 and the smallest size is 16x20. A little too big and a lot over my budget!

 I have always thought it would be fun to buy posters of our favorites rides and display them somewhere in the house...maybe the playroom or den?  I dunno, I'll worry about that later!  Today I ordered these smaller (12x18) posters off eBay for $5.95 each!  Much better size and price.

Can you guess which of these rides is MY favorite?!

The Lord Willing...

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I haven't been around much because I've worried that sharing what is going on in my life would "jinx" me and stop the chain of events that have been happening.  However, all along the process, I have been praying that God's will would happen for us.   I decided it was time for a blog update and if something changes, I feel confident it is God keeping his hand on us.

Our house DID sell to the person who saw it on the second showing!  We close next Monday.  I have to admit it is the most bittersweet thing I think I have ever been through.  I cried the whole last day before we started putting our stuff into storage.

We built the house we currently live in 13 years ago and I said I would NEVER do it again.  However, here we are again, building a house.  After looking for months and not finding anything that knocked our socks off, we stumbled across a chance to afford a house in a neighborhood that we had never even considered...because it was definitely out of our budget.  However, there were not many lots left and we had to move quickly! 

Soo.......the Lord willing...this is the foundation to our new house!  Hopefully it will be finished in a few months and in the meantime we are putting our stuff in storage and bunking with my parents/sisters.  One big slumber party!  

Somewhere in all of this, we snuck in a vacation.  Our trip to Disney was booked looooong before we had any idea we would be moving.  There are so many favorite pictures, but I really love this one.  Evie had no interest in meeting the princesses, but I went ahead and booked a Princess dinner anyway and she was so excited once we actually got there.  She asked me to take her to meet Rapunzel and I jumped at the chance to grab one of those fleeting moments of little girlhood before tweenhood rears it's ugly head!  Here she is twirling for Rapunzel.