Tuesday May 13, 2014 started out like a normal Tuesday. Jack went to preschool and I was organizing stuff to get ready for our move in July. The plan was for me to Fly to Graduation in VA and Josh and I look for a home then come back to CO then the boys and I head East in July. Around noon Josh calls me and says "I have a four day weekend put the house up with a realtor and meet me in WV Thursday." I thought, are you kidding me but I did just that. It was so exciting to know that our family would all be together in a few days.
I had the house on the market by owner for three weeks with only two showings but they weren't moving till late summer so I was feeling discouraged about the whole thing and very nervous about the whole thing but at the same time I knew it would all work out.
We got to West Virginia on Thursday and Josh came in Friday night. The boys were so excited to see their dad and he brought his bow and arrow in and they shot in Kelly's back yard and had so much fun. The next tuesday I got a call from our Realtor with an offer on our house. We only had to counter once and they paid what we wanted but the deal was contingent on us leaving our trampoline. LOL That was a blessing I wasn't even praying for cause I was dreading moving that thing. Of course we said ok and the home inspection came back good and appraisal good and we were set to close July 3. Josh left the next week for four weeks to California on a no contact trip so the boys and I stayed with Kelly until June 8 then went to Josh's apartment in VA. He graduated from the course June 12.
Next the house search began. I went out with our realtor first to eliminate the bad ones then Josh went out with us and we did this a few times. We thought we wanted to live in Stafford because you get a lot more house for your money and you get land but the more we were here we realized the commute was not worth it. We started looking north in Triangle, then Dumfries, then Woodbridge and we just couldn't find anything we wanted.
One weekend we were out in this area Josh had found while driving around one day and there was an open house so we stopped by. We liked it and it had a pool and a big back yard but I didn't care for the house. Josh loved it and said it was the one. We thought about it that night and I cried cause I really didn't want this house. I told Josh that I thought we were buying it for the wrong reasons because we loved the land and the neighborhood. This neighborhood is tucked back away from the main road and has it's own Marina, which was the selling point for Josh. We went back the next day and met the owners and talked to them and looked again and I felt better so we made an offer on it.
can you see why we loved the yard :)
The next day the boys and I headed back to WV picked up my mom and headed for Colorado and Josh headed out to NC. I had actually gotten excited about the house because Josh had said we could make changes eventually to the house. The main things I hated about the house was the master bedroom wasn't big enough for our furniture, the master closet was a single door with one rod and the master bath was 5 feet by 4 feet and that included the shower, no tub, and no outlets. the kitchen was small too with no dining room and no pantry anywhere. Only one car garage that did not connect to the house but I was trying to be positive. It surprised me when our agent called me while I was driving and said they took someone else's offer because we wanted to close now and the other people had to sell their house first and the owners of this one hadn't found a new one yet. I was actually disappointed.
On the second day of traveling, June 18, 2014, Annie text me and said she was in labor and heading to the hospital because Miss Emma decided to make her grand entrance :) I didn't get home until late that night so I had to wait till the next morning to meet her but she was perfect.
Jack loves seeing the state signs and he was so excited to go home. He didn't quite get that we were not going to live there much longer. Anyway I had to stop and let him get a pic with the welcome sign. He was so excited. He ran under it and said "look mommy I'm in Colorado before you!"
July 1 the the packers came and packed up the house. July 2 the movers came and our house was empty. This was so hard for me. I love that house so much. In the meantime in VA Josh had called me June 30 and told me all about a house he had seen in the same neighborhood as the other one and how it was definitely "the one" it was on a half acre and 3000 sq feet and he told me the master bed, bath, and closet was hugh LOL I looked it up online and was not impressed but I knew he wanted in this neighborhood so I said ok since we were going to be homeless in four days. He kept telling me "Remember we can make it our own." Little did I know just how much we would have to make it our own :) We put the offer in and we got it!
It was really hard for me to leave our Colorado house. We had amazing friends there and this was the only home our boys remembered. We closed on July 3 and hit the rd to West Virginia
Of course no trip to the lake would be complete without working on something :)
