Good-bye Jessica!

It is now official, we have now sold our very first home. Good-bye Jessica.  It is a bittersweet experience - we had such wonderful memories there as we welcomed all three of our children into our lives in that home, and experienced such awesome times there with family and friends. Our neighbors were fantastic, respectful and quiet. The home had such a cozy feeling with warm bright sunlight streaming in. Addison won't remember the home, but we hope that the boys will have good memories from their first years there. Both still talk about the fact that they love that home, but it is getting less frequent as they get used to being in their new home. While bittersweet, we are relieved to have the sale completed.

We are blessed that it happened so quickly after only being on the market for about 4-5 days and getting almost our asking price (which was more than what we asked for in the fall!!). We are blessed that it actually appraised - especially with all of the issues that we had with our current home appraising. We wanted to give the new owners a sense of history with the home as well, so drafted a communication to them where we tried to impart all of the house's history and information so that they would be feeling like they didn't have to figure things out the hard way. It is also a relief to have the sale completed so that we  (or let's be clear, KARIS!) no longer have to maintain the yard. The extreme nostalgia that we experienced when we first moved did abate after our middle-of-the-night experience (details not provided on blog to keep our young reader from getting nervous, so if you aren't aware of our adventure, you can contact us!).

Best wishes to the new owners - we wish for you as many wonderful moments in the home as we had! For posterity sake, we wanted to have pictures of our home, so that we could remember as the years pass as to what it looked like! We'll now remember the fact that we never painted the white walls (hey wait, white IS A COLOR! Ha!), that it was very minimally decorated, but we were happy!

We will miss you Jessica!

This was such a bright entryway, and we added the glass French doors a few years ago to make the front room into an office - and it just worked out great for our use.

The dining room where we held many dinners, and it was a cut-through to the nursery where we'd stumble through in the middle of the night as one of our kids would cry!

The fireplace where we made smores with the boys, but other than that used it maybe 4-5 times over the space of the 12 years we lived there.....and the white mantle where there was a nail sticking out halfway up from the original owner that we never took out.....and never hung anything from (uninspired minimalists, we are for sure!)

The extremely all white kitchen - that could definitely use a more modern touch, but we loved the GE microwave that could microwave, convection bake, and speed cook!  And the double stove was just awesome!

Great eat-in kitchen area

The rectangular master bedroom was really easy to fit our furniture in and have a cozy TV watching space - it was a very spacious master bedroom!

The jet tub where the boys would frolic and create so many bubbles that we could barely see their heads!

Kaleb's jungle room....

Addison's nursery

Zachary's bedroom - it was such a great room to sleep in as it would get so nice and dark!

The front room with the office furniture that was custom made for the space (we brought that furniture with us, as it was just too expensive to replace)

This pool really was a blessing, so many hours of fun out there, and the back deck where the boys would ride their cars back and forth all of the time.

The playset - Zachary loved to play in the sand right after Kaleb was born!