On November 14th...

We will close escrow on our NEW house!!

We have been so blessed as to be able to buy ANOTHER house by the same builder as the new one we sold when we moved away. He is building ONLY ONE that is slightly above our "comfort zone" for price, but we felt like it's the best deal around, so we jumped on it. It will be smaller than our last house (only 1256 square feet), but it has a nice floor plan, and it will be NEW!! We are getting it just in time to pick our stuff again, so next week I will go with the relater to pick floors, carpet, counters, and paint color. I'm so excited about that!!
He's changed some of the things in his houses since last time... he now uses white trim and doors (instead of wood), brushed nickle fixtures (instead of the gold color), and he does laminate in the kitchen and entry (even though the floor plan says vinyl). He's also doing hickory cabinets and a built in microwave. Oh, and he landscapes them now (including sprinklers!!), so we won't have to worry about any of that.

When we looked at it yesterday we had the kids with us. They have looked at a few houses with us, and M must have been listening to all the things we were critical about as we walked through them. She walked into the new (not finished) house and promptly voiced her opinion on how the bathtub was dirty, the floors were weird, and WHY were there wires all over the walls!?! She doesn't remember building our other house at all.

I'm and so looking forward to getting settled, unpacking all our boxes and getting rid of junk, and not moving again for at least 5 years!! Ahhh... :)