For starters, we bought a house! With having a new home-based business (more on that later), we quickly realized that keeping records and designing shirts from the comfort of our (way too cluttered) couch was not a good business/family strategy. Which is a nice way of saying Mommy is finding it frustrating trying clean around all the (not so) well organized piles of paper. That and the fact that four kids (yes, that's four now - another thing I should post about) is just too much energy for our small house convinced us that it was past time to start looking for a home that fits us rather than a place we can try to fit into - which is what we have been doing for the past 10 or so years.
Our criteria: 4 bedrooms, a living room large enough for the sectional couch that was given to us that we have never been able to put together because our current living room was too small, 2 car garage (not that we were actually planning on putting both cars in the garage), a front door that did not open with a view to the kitchen or family room - preferably with the office near the front door, carpeting throughout the house (not typical in the desert - most prefer tile or laminate), cinder-block wall around the back yard (typical for AZ), and in our price range. What we found: all of the above. This place is perfect!
We moved in the beginning of May 2013.
The perfect sized hallway for hyper kids!
Spacious kitchen with lots of cabinet space
(though, somehow it's still not enough - someone explain that to me!)
This is what the front of the house looked like when we moved in over a year ago...now that I see this picture, I think I need to get the hedge clippers out again.
And our living room complete with a running track...I mean couch.
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