Our (Soon to Be) New House

Ben has been bugging me to update our blog for a couple months now, but I just haven't gotten around to it. What might I be filling my time with, you might ask. Well, when we first got home from vacation this summer I was talking to lenders and looking at houses to buy with our realtor, now it's packing the house, taking care of the kids and being 31 weeks (7 almost 8 months) pregnant, and trying to keep up with a few other things on my plate when I'm not too tired.
So we found a house to buy about 20-25 miles south of where we currently live. It's gorgeous and in excellent condition (it was built in 2007). We had gone out to this area to look at a couple houses again and to show Ben one I had seen the previous day and our realtor said she had one more to look at when we were done with those three. When we walked in it was so clean and white and the entire house was wired for surround sound (Ben was in love) and it had a central vacuum and we really we just loved it. It had only been on the market as a foreclosure for a couple days and with it's amazing condition (and believe me I walked in enough houses, especially foreclosures that were not so great; our inspector was even amazed at the condition) and all 3 levels finished with a total of about 4500 square feet sitting on about .27 of an acre in a great neighborhood our realtor did not see it being on the market for long and thought we had better put in the first offer soon. We were so excited as we walked through the house again without the realtor (she had to leave) and then as we went out to pick peaches with the kids at an orchard and then drove home we decided what to offer and thought about what it would be like to live there with so much space and newness, but we really didn't think we would get it because it was a little higher than our price range and it just seemed too good to be true. So we put in our offer that Saturday evening on Labor day weekend and we countered a couple times through the week and then finally we came to an agreement on price and closing costs. Yeah!! We couldn't believe it!! Anyway, we are excited to be able to not be renting anymore come November 6 when we close and we can paint to our hearts' content (who knows how much we will be able to paint before our newest baby boy joins the family in late Nov. or early Dec.). We have been left with a clean palette and we are excited to add color (hopefully only to the walls and not the white carpets). We do know that going from a tiny 2 bedroom house to a huge 4 bedroom house we will have lots of empty space with no furniture to fill it, but we are excited to have the space with a baby on the way and two energetic kids who love to play. So here are some pictures I took of the house the day we walked through the first time.