ch-ch-changes

 

hey you guys! look what's happening here! 

that's right, a little after he turned 13 months, jude took his first steps. just a couple weeks later, he's walking hand in hand with me!!! so weird.....sooooo strange. thankfully, he still mostly wants to ride in the cart[or in my arms]. he knows he's big stuff when he's walking around too.  always looking bak at me, like "check this out, momma!" 

and that's not all. we paid off our car and motorcycle this month! we still have another car to pay off, but it's 0% apr, so we aren't as anxious to get that monkey off our backs.

and

today we put a bid on a house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*disclaimer: this is a full year before we thought we'd be buying, so i will not be totally shocked if it falls through, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. we wanted to save more money, but this house just spoke to us....

first, my husband saw it online[he's forever perusing real estate sites] and he pointed out this house. i was like "meh". of course. but then he had a random weekday off, so we decided to go to shepherdtown[where we want to buy] and drive around. i suggested seeing the house in person[expecting to be dissapointed] and fell in love with the location. it's about a 3 minute drive from the downtown area. it's set back  from the road, surrounded by trees on almost 2 acres[check 1 off my husband's wishlist]. 

soooo then my husband set up a very low pressure showing, just so we could see...... 

basically it's perfect for us. 4 bedrooms(1 of which is on the 1st floor[bonus points for when we're older]), 3.5 bathrooms. eat-in kitchen, separate dining room, family room, bonus room, library,  laundry room, attached 2 car garage, and wood burning fire place.

it was built in the late-70's, and the decor reflects that, but i love the thought of going through and making it our own!

we just made an offer, so who knows if they'll even accept it. and there's a million little things that could go wrong, but we're feeling calm about it all[i think the other thing we're trying to change is a good distraction].

so we shall see.....

a sneak peek....