Big Changes

Henry and I bought our first home when we were expecting our third baby, Henry.  The three bedrooms were perfect.  The girls could share and Henry would get his own room.  Then we found out our fourth was a girl.  We knew that even though our three rooms are considered big for bedrooms, we were outgrowing our home.   

After Alice was born, we decided it was time to look at making our home more suitable for what we needed and wanted.  This took many months and a decent amount of money.  In the end, the option to add on to our home had to be ruled out.  Not only would the cost be way more than it was worth, but we still wouldn't have the home we really wanted for our family.  During the whole process of working with an architect and contractor to get bids, we also spent lots of time searching the MLS to see what other options were out there as far as purchasing a different house.  We were hoping to find something that would allow us to stay in Blair, but we were striking out.  There were few homes with what we were looking for, and those that we found were way out of our price range.  So we expanded our search to other areas around Omaha where we would consider having our kids go to school.

At the end of July, Henry found a few homes in Gretna that we thought were good options, so we went to look at them.  We immediately fell in love with one of them.  It was everything we were looking for, minus the big yard we love about our home in Blair.  It has plenty of space for our kids to grow (5 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2500 sq. ft.), it is a newer ranch style, and has a 2 car attached garage.  After a couple of days of many mixed emotions on my part, we went back on Friday, July 29th, with my parents to look at it again.  Because the house was priced extremely well, and we still loved it, we put an offer in that night. The next morning, I flew with Alice to Nevada to visit my sisters and Henry took the older kids and went to visit his parents in South Dakota.

Saturday morning was spent countering back and forth.  That afternoon, while I was swimming at Planet Hollywood, Henry accepted a counter offer.  The rest of the day seem like it was spent making phone calls and faxing paperwork back and forth.  It seemed strange that we just bought a house and both Henry and I were out of the state.  Closing is set for September 15th!