Seeing the New House

One of the upstairs bedrooms
The other upstairs bedroom (besides the master)
Son #2 in the backyard

Son #1 in one of the basement bedrooms.
Both sons in the other basement bedroom.
The basement family room
The upstairs family room area (off the kitchen).

Son #2 in the kitchen/eating area. The railing you can barely see on the left is the stairs down to the basement.

On Saturday we took the kids to see the house we are trying to buy. Grandpa and Grandma went with us. (Too bad my husband's parents are in England right now so they couldn't come too.) The photos above are from that trip and show some of the rooms that don't have photos on the link from my earlier post.

We took a tape measure so we could start figuring out where furniture would fit. I think we all started to feel a little bit excited about it. It was fun. The kids all liked it and the Grandparents heartily approved as well. (When Grandma saw the big basement family room she said, "We can have all the family gatherings here!") The kids were told to vote for their 1st and 2nd choices for bedrooms. Daughter #1 will only give us one choice--the biggest bedroom in the basement. Daughter #2 likes the bedroom with the pretty window upstairs as her #1 choice. The boys don't care. We'll probably keep the boys together for now and then we can actually have a guest bedroom for a while (but maybe without a bed at first--we'll have to work on that.) The basement also has a storage room and another small room that we can use as a play room. Upstairs has a small living room as well as a small family room area off the kitchen. We don't have enough furniture for this house. There is a nice park two houses down at the end of the street. The backyard has a view of the lake and mountains. As we have watched the home prices plummet in Arizona over the last ten months, and only decrease slightly in Utah over the same ten months, we have worried that we wouldn't be able to afford anything in Utah by the time we finally sold our house. We are feeling extremely blessed with the way things seem to be working out. We never could have imagined we could have ended up in such a nice place.

Our inspection on our Arizona house turned out pretty good. We don't have too many costly repairs to make--it could've been much worse. We are relieved about that. The appraisal in Arizona was done yesterday but we haven't heard the results yet. The inspection on the house here was also done yesterday. We have a few concerns to look into a little more, but we are hopeful we will be able to get things resolved to our satisfaction soon. Our house in Arizona may close as soon as May 20th so we will be down there to pack up the weekend of the 16th if things happen that fast. Otherwise, we will probably be down there the weekend of the 23rd since our house there is supposed to close no later than the 29th. The house here is supposed to close on the 30th and we will get the keys on Monday, June 2nd. So that is the plan, as long as everything goes well.