We have had so many fists in the last 2 months that I think my head is still spinning a little.  Here is a little sampling:

~ We moved out of our 1st house and signed a contract to sell it.

~ We saw our Gracie take her first steps.

~ We learned to sit patiently (well kind of) during lots & lots of traffic. 

~ We turned a movie theater into Will’s room & a work-out room into Gracie’s room. (Did I mention we are staying in an awesome place?)

~ We watched Gracie get her first haircut.

~ We said goodbye to a dear friend and cried along with his family and friends at his funeral.

~ We learned (still learning) how to live in someone else’s house with a 3 & 1 year old.

~ We explained to Will about having two houses.  One where his bed is in Huntsville and one here in Atlanta.

~ We went house shopping with two kids.  Not fun!

~ We are learning to line up lots of babysitters since we are actually having to figure out how to survive with out Nana & Pappaw right around the corner.

~ We made an offer on a house, countered & then signed a contract.

I’m sure there are more firsts that I can’t even think of right now but you get the picture... lots of transition!  So, when thinking about what to blog about for the first time in a month I really wasn’t sure were to start.  So, I decided to start with present day and work my way back.  Sorry I have been gone so long but I’m looking forward to catching you up on our life and catching up with your lives too (fellow bloggers). 

Our most recent 1st is buying a new/old house.  We built our last house so it was interesting looking at lots of different styles of homes around Atlanta.  We made an offer on a house on Monday and then we were so excited yesterday when we heard they accepted our offer.  Here are some pictures of our future place.  We will call these the before pictures since it is not our stuff or paint colors inside the house yet.

We love the front porch on this house.  Perfect for two rocking chairs.  I’m thinking of painting the door and shutters black.

Foyer

Dining room.  I will have to work on that light fixture & paint.

Formal living across from dining.  Needs paint!  I asked to keep window treatments so that is one less thing to make.

The kitchen is very white which will be hard to keep clean with two little ones.  We hope to paint walls, do a glaze treatment on cabinets (maybe), granite (please, please.. if we can swing it) and black appliances.

Large eat-in with deck out the french doors.

2 story family room.

Master bedroom upstairs.

Sitting area in master bedroom.

Master bath. 

Maybe Gracie’s room? (needs paint)

Maybe Will’s room? (really needs paint)

Maybe a guest room upstairs?

Basement.  We will get to keep all of this furniture.  They offered it to us as apart of the deal.  It has this movie room, 2 possible bedrooms (more likely a guest room & music studio), a full bath & another room that will be a good play area for now. 

Backyard right off of basement playroom.  Smaller than we are used to but very shady and room for a play set.  The neighborhood also has two playgrounds in it.

Back deck off of kitchen.

We are so excited about this house and hope that everything will work out during this next month before we close on it.  So get ready to come for a visit we have a place just for you! : )