New Digs for Baby K

I haven’t updated my blog in awhile because we have been SO busy......buying a house!

Yes, we finally bought a house! Shawn and I decided to start looking a couple of months ago and we found the perfect house in the Aldie/Chantilly area. We’d been talking about buying a house for awhile now and with the new baby coming, we decided it was definitely time to start “looking”. Little did we know, we were going to find the perfect home so soon! It took us only a month but I don’t feel we rushed into it. It was a huge decision so I prayed about it every night and all the right signs were there. Everything just felt right and worked itself out. We didn’t want to miss this opportunity, it’s definitely a buyer’s market out there right now and the interest rates are at a record low.

Shawn and I were both very picky when it came to certain things we wanted in our home, and we’re extremely happy with this decision. Although it’s not in our key location of Fairfax, and we didn’t get as much land as we wanted (probably won’t be building a swimming pool in the backyard..haha), we are happy with everything else. We looked at several homes and every home we saw we found something wrong with it…..until we walked into this one. I walked in and I LOVED everything about it. It was perfect. I just knew this was the home I wanted to raise my kids in and grow old in. We hope to keep this home for many many years to come.

Since the house still needs to be built, we won’t be moving in until December. It’s nice to buy a new home because we get to pick out everything we want to our liking. We get to customize the house to the way we like it and we’ve been spending a lot of our time going through colors and how we want our kitchen to look and everything down to the bathroom tile colors and door knob colors! It’s exciting but I didn’t realize there was so much to buying a new build home.

We’re going to keep our condo and rent it out for a few years until the market goes back up then sell. It’s definitely not a seller’s market out there. The move will be about 3 months after the baby is born, but it’s ok. I am going to wait to furnish the nursery till after the move. It just makes sense since the baby will probably not sleep in her room right away anyway. I can’t imagine putting together all the nursery furniture for 3 months, then having to take them all apart to put it back together in the new home. I’m still thinking of a lot of cute nursery ideas but won’t be putting them to use till after the move.

This is such an exciting year for our family. We are so excited for this new baby girl and we can’t wait to start our new life in our new home. We went to our lot and took some pictures (yeah, we’re dorks!!). I hope our neighbors don't mind, but we took pictures of one of the houses in our neighborhood that will look similar to the home we’re building. This house has side-entry garage so it looks a lot bigger than our house will be. Our house will have the front-entry 2-car garage with driveway on the left side instead of the 3 windows you see on this house. The rest of the house will look very similar cause we chose similar brick colors and stone and porch option.