Our Next Adventure!

I've been hesitant to write anything about this in case we changed our mind or things didn't work out, but I guess it's time to tell everyone what we've been scheming about behind the scenes.

For a long time I've wanted a bigger yard and we are entertaining the idea of having one more child. If we do have another baby we'd like to have a 5 bedroom house (need a spare bedroom for all our out of town guests), and I still want that yard! So, I started looking around for houses and found a nice little house with a beautiful yard that is about 2/3 of an acre, but it's too small - only 3 bedrooms. So we looked at it and really loved it and started thinking that we might be able to get it and remodel to make what we want for the same price we could get or build a new 5 bedroom home. And none of the new builds have anything close to the yard this one has. We researched, talked to contractors, read online and looked at the house again.

We decided to make an offer on the house yesterday and we are still anxiously waiting to hear from the sellers. They've already turned down one offer and had one offer fall through, so I'm hoping 3rd time's a charm! From what we understand they are a retired couple with a ranch somewhere in Texas and a home in Costa Rica so I'm hoping they are ready to get rid of the house!!

The house is great and we'd love to add a second story if we can. It has a nice layout, but it's really the yard that is so great. It's got big trees and backs up to some heavily wooded property owned by other neighbors who got together to purchase it so nothing would be developed on it. It would be so perfect for the kids to be able to play out there all the time.

So, as I write this I hope I'm not jinxing the situation and I hope we hear some good news today - I'm sort of expecting a counter offer and that if they were going to say 'no' we would have heard last night. If we come to an agreement I'll post some pictures, but I don't want to get too excited yet.