we saw it all!!

Home Sweet Home!

Lets just start from the very beginning.......Kurtis and I flew to Rochester MN last Friday, perky, kid-less and ready for an exciting house hunting adventure (plus a little time alone)!!! We had so many "favorites" that we found on line and really had no worries about finding a least a few good ones! So with smiles on our faces we went to meet our totally awesome Realtor Saturday morning. She had told me that she at at least 20 houses for us to look at! Sweet...right?! So off we went...the fist house...lets just say bomb!!! The second house... well your looking at it! Easy enough, right? WRONG!!! We totally gave this beauty and A-!! Let saying "it just won't suit our families needs!" Okay, now imagine 20 houses later and no "I just love it!" house. So sad and tired we went back to our hotel. But an added bonus was that I had an AWESOME girls night out with all my AWESOME friends! Did I say friends?!! YES, I DO HAVE SOME!! YEAH!!! (Thanks so much for coming!!)
The next day was Sunday so we went to our old ward, the best one I might add... and had SO much fun!! The difference between our ward here and our ward there was amazing! People actually new our names!! Then after all that we went to find some more houses! This time we found it!!! The golden trophy! The one and only! The best one on the block! We just had to put an offer in! So we slept on it that night and the next morning we put an offer on the house. We left Remax to have lunch and not ten minuets out we got a call from our Realtor. Bad news....some one had put an offer in last night and the had already excepted it! Of course I start drowning my self in tears and Kurtis just sits there in silents! What do we do? We are leaving tomorrow, we had no close seconds..... so back to the hotel to look up more houses. We found about 3 or 4 to look at...and maybe a few to go back to that we had already seen. That afternoon we went back out. That is when we fell in love with this one and another. So now we had two to choose from! Yippee! When it came down to it we knew that we really did love this one. Except one thing....it really had not place for our kids to play. So our totally awesome Realtor said, lets finish the basement and I get everyone in here to do it BEFORE you move here! WHAT?? At that moment we knew that we LOVED our Realtor! She is going to all the work....the bids, the shopping, giving the green light, ect! Plus she said that we could roll over the cost of the basement into our morgage! SWEET!!!! So yesterday was the big day, we signed and he signed. Now just cross your fingers that the inspection goes okay!! :)

Here are a few pictures!!!