Our New Home!

 

 

After a long year at our first home together, my husband and I decided it was time for a change! As grateful as we were to have a great first house, not many couples get that blessing, we were ready for something new! We moved from the MacDonald Villages of Benning, if you have ever seen them, then you know they are what you would consider "historic". At least that is what the Villages of Benning committee described them as, therefore they were never remodeled. So after a few flooded basements, the awful Water Bugs, the leaky sink, and the mold growing in the bathroom ceiling; when we got the opportunity to move from a 2 bedroom 1 bath house to a 2 story 4 bedroom 2.5 bath closer to work we JUMPED at the chance! And I am so glad we did, because I fell absolutely in love with it! Don't get me wrong though, when we took the last boxes and pulled out of the driveway on route to our new home I cried like a baby. It was our first home together as a family, It was both of our first home without our parents, and it was Reisse's first home as a baby. I will take with me memories of dancing through the kitchen while I'm singing Shania Twain and cooking dinner, of me and Chris spending an entire weekend never leaving the couch except to refill our cookies & chocolate milk, where I was sitting on the couch when I got the call from my doctor to let us know that we were expecting our first baby, and of sitting on the front porch with the boys enjoying morning coffee and the awesome peacefulness of the neighborhood. But sometimes changes is good so without second guessing we both jumped feet first into the move into a home that we both loved! I can honestly say from my experience, I will never in a million years take a ceiling fan for granted! The new house is a true blessing because now that Reisse is crawling I feel much better about it being on new floors and bug free!!! After the first week of being in the new house Chris came home from work and said to me that he felt that this was a house he would call home; after that conversation with my husband I knew that we had made the best decision for our family! This is a picture (above) of our new house! We finally got the porch all set up! I love all the bright summertime colors!