Since we decided to hold onto our house instead of selling it, we have to have a lease on it & rent money in the bank before we can put an offer on a 2nd house. We thankfully found great tenants to lease out our home and they are moving in the 1st of July. Yay! However this means we'll be homeless until we can find a new house.
Thankfully we have this amazing friend- His name is Kerem. I call him Dos (nickname originating from the Myspace days) and the boys call him Dayi, which is Uncle in Turkish. We met him 10 years ago when he went to Germany with Trey for a study abroad trip through A&M. We've been best friends ever since, and he was a groomsman in our wedding. Truly a lifetime friend.
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| Kerem & us- June 2007 |
This wonderful, generous friend of ours has offered for the 4 of us to live with him until we can find a new home! Homeless problem solved!
So being the end of June the time has come- we have to move out!
The boys have done well with this moving thing. Even Charlie seemed to understand when we had to pack up most of his toys & his bedroom! Very happy about that. We are taking the essentials and their most favorite toys with us to Kerem's house.
When the moving men were here we tried to stay out of the way by playing in the front yard.
Of COURSE the day we decided to move out Houston had record highs- I think it was 102 by 11am. :( Not fun.
You never realize how much stuff you actually accumulate until you start trying to put everything in boxes. We kept going back to Lowes to buy MORE boxes. I think our grand total was around 100 boxes. WHAT?! I blame it on all the kids' stuff. :) We ended up needing 2 moving trucks and 2 storage units!
After everything was out I headed back to the house to clean it up and get it ready for our new tenants. I had an emotional moment when cleaning Charlie's room and found this sweet, grubby hand print behind his door. It must have been when he was a year old. :') It was really hard for me to wash this off.
It's already bittersweet moving out of our 1st home.. being pregnant & emotional doesn't help! We are excited about a new chapter but will definitely miss our Durban cottage.
So moving on-----
We finally got the green light from our lender to look at houses since our house was leased.
The house hunt has begun!
We've been looking online A LOT the past few months. We have a long list of 'wants' and 'don't wants' and have a pretty good idea of what we are looking for. A bigger house with room for our growing family, close to my parents, a game room, BIG kitchen, nice backyard... the list goes on and on. Since we are hoping this will be our forever home we aren't willing to compromise much.
Unbelievably, just as it was with our 1st home, we think we've found the ONE from the 1st house we actually looked at. After seeing it we realized it had ALL of our 'must haves' and 90% of our 'wants'. Could it be this easy?
We've put an offer in on this house and really praying it is meant to be! It's just perfect for our family!
So being the end of June the time has come- we have to move out!
When the moving men were here we tried to stay out of the way by playing in the front yard.
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| Moving truck filling up fast! |
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| One of our storage units. Those movers know how to fill it up! It's a bit unsettling to see everything that you own in one small space. |
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| Seems like just yesterday we were excited new homeowners- newlyweds with just our doggies. |
We finally got the green light from our lender to look at houses since our house was leased.
The house hunt has begun!
We've been looking online A LOT the past few months. We have a long list of 'wants' and 'don't wants' and have a pretty good idea of what we are looking for. A bigger house with room for our growing family, close to my parents, a game room, BIG kitchen, nice backyard... the list goes on and on. Since we are hoping this will be our forever home we aren't willing to compromise much.
Unbelievably, just as it was with our 1st home, we think we've found the ONE from the 1st house we actually looked at. After seeing it we realized it had ALL of our 'must haves' and 90% of our 'wants'. Could it be this easy?
We've put an offer in on this house and really praying it is meant to be! It's just perfect for our family!
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