Our New Home

The morning after Jack’s party I loaded up Lincoln and all of his gear and we took off for Austin to house hunt for the 3 days.  Jay joined us later that evening, we had to take two cars anyway, because he had to stay in Austin the entire week for work.
A huge thank you to Adrienne, Jennifer and Mom & David who kept the big boys for us while we were gone.
We looked at over 20 houses and found one that we both loved and then each had a different second choice.  We put in offers on all 3 houses and my second choice was accepted so we took that to mean that God wanted us in that house.
So, here’s our new home in Austin. . .

Downstairs we have the kitchen, office, living room, formal dinning, half bath and laundry room.  I included this picture because Jay is super excited to have a proper tornado shelter type room under the stairs.  Jay is shown working in this picture.  I had been excited to have  few days with him and the poor guy had to work almost every minute of the entire time I was there.

Study and then formal dinning room.

Kitchen.

My favorite part is the backyard.  Unfortunately we don’t have any trees but hey, at least there is space for the boys to play!

My second favorite is the playroom.

We are on a street that ends in a cul de sac.  My favorite part of the neighborhood is that there are TONS of kids.  On Sunday when I first saw the place there were 11 little boys riding their bikes. In addition the sales guy for the home (it’s a spec home in a master planned community) told me that there were 67 kids on the 3 streets surrounding ours that attend the elementary school in the neighborhood.  All 3 schools are less than a mile from our house.  I’m praying that there will be a lot of new friends for our family in this neighborhood.  Jay really liked another neighborhood and house better due to mature trees etc. . .I’m hoping that the kids and fun will quickly outweigh the rest!

 

While I’m still sad to leave friends, family and church, it does feel much better to at least have a place to move to! 

And of course, I couldn’t go the whole 3 days without taking a few shots of little Lincoln.  He’s just too cute!