Buying Houses Makes Me Crabby

Sorry for the picture quality, as its night time and the canon bit the dust a few weeks ago. So we are relying solely upon the blackberries and the cameras of others now. BUT...Our house sold! After 2 months on the market, much thanks to our awesome real estate agent. If anyone ever needs a referral to an agent, Elizabeth Katt is fantastic! There are still some inspections pending, and we need to replace the roof but our little home has found its new owners. It might sound weird, but it makes me sad to think about moving out of this house. Logically, it is too small for us and has almost no yard and an inadequate garage for a mechanic, but it has been such a good little house to come home to after a wedding, with new foster dogs, to start a business in, and to bring a new baby home to. There are definitely things about the old little house that I will want to carry over into the new home (even though the buyers are taking, well, pretty much everything that is in any way attached to the house.) I predict that I will shed many tears on April 27th, when we hand over the keys to our first home. HOWEVER...

We have purchased a new home! There will be about a month gap in between closing on the old house and the new one, so we will be living with Mama Cindy and Grandpa Pete for awhile. The new house just needs to pass a well water test (please, no nitrates...please, no nitrates!) and a few other things and then it can be ours! Assuming all goes as planned, we will move in at the end of May to the home which is located a few miles outside of Lincoln on N. 14th St. Our new address will actually be in Raymond but it is just a very short drive out of town. Still very close to Grandma and Grandpa and to Star City Motorsports. We will have an acre of land with 4 GARAGE STALLS, a very large garden, some fruit trees, and from what I hear there is room for a nice play structure and maybe some sort of dirtbike something-or-other. The house is an older, split-level style home that I am going to very much enjoy decorating. All of our fingers and toes are crossed that nothing goes wrong that could potentially go wrong and the homes all change hands smoothly now. If anyone has any boxes, or better yet a desire to help shingle the old house, do let me know!!! I will leave you with this picture that Mama Cindy sent me tonight when she took Pete out to see the house. I believe this is the view from the driveway, across 14th St. Pretty!