It's official...

We are homeless.  Well, not really homeless, but as of yesterday we are no longer home owners.  :(  I have actually wanted to move for years but we could never find an affordable house in the area we wanted so nothing has happened.  Then a few months ago I found out about this new subdivision going in right across the street from the kids school.  It was the perfect location for us...on flat ground (no hills!!!), just a mile away from where we currently lived so the kids wouldn't have to change schools or anything and it's even closer to family (not that we were far from family, but this is within walking/biking distance and since there are no huge hills, no busy streets to cross, the kids can do it).  Anyway, we looked into it and found that we wanted to jump on this opportunity so we reserved a lot in a cul-de-sac.  And to make it even better, my brother Ben reserved a lot right next door to ours!!  Woohoo!!  Anyway, they told us that they should be ready to build come July and that's when we'd sign contracts and be locked in for good, up until then we could decide to back out.  So in May we decided to get the house ready to go on the market since we needed our current one to sell in order for us to do this.  The house was on the market for less than 3 weeks and we got an offer.  And it was a good offer, exactly what we were hoping to get out of the house.  So we accepted and they wanted to move in at the end of 3 weeks.  So it has been a whirlwind since then.  Yesterday we signed and it is officially not ours anymore.  My brother Matt and his wife Jamie are being more than kind to let us stay in their basement until our house is built.  We owe them big time!!!  We had no idea the house would sell so quickly, so I feel bad for Matt and Jamie that they have to put up with us that much longer, but we are eternally grateful to them.  I feel so blessed that it did sell and that we have somewhere to go in the mean time.  We just found out yesterday that they are behind schedule in the new subdivision, so it looks like building won't start until August not July.  (Sigh)  It is a strange feeling not to have a place to call our own and it was a little sad to leave.  We were there for 8 years and have a lot of memories in that little home with our little family.  But with that said, I am soo excited to move on.  I already have noticed that my kids LOVE doing things outside here like biking!  woohoo!!  It is so great to see them get out and do it.  That is something they couldn't do at our old house, hence, one of the many reasons I wanted to leave.  The kids are LOVING living at their cousins house and constantly want to play with them.  It is great.  (I just hope the other family here feels the same way!!)  :)