Well tonight we met up with the realtor to look at some houses. Oh my goodness, I am in love. We looked at three houses tonight... all that I narrowed down from about 25 houses in the area and that are in our price range. (It is amazing how big the house market is right now!!)

The FIRST one we looked at was amazing. My goodness, Gabe and I both looked at each other so many times while we were looking it over saying... this is so the house!

It is an older home, but has been TOTALLY remodel and revamped...and my goodness, the elderly woman that lives there now has kept it up so well. Seriously, you could have eaten off the floor. It was beautiful. Large windows, white/wide trim, fireplace... three bedrooms, two baths. And it really had that old house feel to it with the old wooden doors, built in cabinets etc. Much to our delight we also found that under the house carpet the old wooden floor is still there, and it is BEAUTIFUL! Not only was it wonderful inside, but it had a beautiful back yard (BIG trees!!), pretty landscaping, and a huge workshop in the back that Gabe can turn into a studio. (Yay, no more drum sets in our bedroom lol) Yes... it would be a perfect house for sure.

The realtor we met with also gave us a contact for a local bank in the town that offers really good rate and hardly any closing costs. So my homework for tomorrow is to give her a call and set up a meeting. Whether this is the house for us or not, it would be great to get the approval over and behind us. (such a bother!!) But the good thing is we already have about 1/3 of the house cost already saved up, so we can bypass most of the paperwork we would have otherwise needed to do... yay!

Well.... even tho it is a beautiful house... I know if we are supposed to get it, it will still be on the market when we go for the contract (a contract was already placed on it but fell through last week.... whew.....) and it someone does get it before us... well I know GOd has an even better place for us :) Either way it will be home!!

I am excited for the days/weeks to come and look forward to what may be unfolding in this new chapter of life :)

CHEERS!!