Sorry!!!
Posted by Michelle on 11 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Mike and Michelle
I’m sorry for the lack of posts lately! Thea last month or so has just flown by! Mainly we have had a trip to Dallas to celebrate the TX/OU game and throw a baby shower for our dear friend Summer and Paul. I have posted photos in our Picasa album.
Last weekend we traveled to north Louisiana for the annual Hampton Family reunion. It was an absolute blast as usual and we had so much fun.
School has been crazy lately and needless to say I am VERY ready for this semester to be over. And to add to the craziness….we are in the process of buying a new home. Yes…I know what your thinking…but you’ve done so much to the current home. And you are correct. While it kills us to sell this place as we love it dearly, we found a good deal on a home less than 5 minutes away. It’s larger, a GREAT layout for the future kiddos, and is on one acre so we have tons of room to spread out and Mike can build his workshop. Our offer was accepted yesterday and the inspection is scheduled for next week. Baring no major issues on inspection, we are ready to go. (A HUGE thank you to Mom’s boyfriend Ken for helping make this all possible!)
We will hopefully close in December and put our home on the market in mid January. We plan to make a few changes to the new house BEFORE moving in this time (a lesson we learned from this place.) Nothing major, just installing some new flooring, major painting (I can’t stand white walls), and changing a few fixtures. There are plenty of projects to tackle in the future (refacing the kitchen cabinets!!!) but all of it can wait and be done over time without major disruption (woohoo). And since we plan to be adding to our family relatively soon…that is a VERY good thing. I’ve posted some photos below. They aren’t the greatest, but you can get the idea.
This is a horrible shot of the front - it nearly stopped us from looking at it. But, it does look a bit better in person.
View from dining room into entry on left and living room in back.
The kitchen....so much potential!
From living room looking to entry. Yes...the chandalier is one of the first things to go 
From the living room looking into kitchen.
Back of home. LOVE all the windows! There is SO MUCH light in the home.
The HUGE backyard
Needless to say, we are super excited, but sad and scared at the same time. Sad to leave our first home that we truly love and have put so much of ourselves into. And scared about temporarily having two mortgages. Yikes! But, we will price our home well and its one of the few completely updated homes in the neighborhood, so we are pretty confident it will be okay. Also, we are VERY happy that the step-up tax credit was approved by congress. Our current home isn’t really a “first time” home for most people, so we are happy to hopefully have some people that will be interested in purchasing a home by April (and hopefully sooner!).
I’ll keep you updated!
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