We have a contract on our house!!! After a couple months of it being for sale and multiple showings, we finally found a buyer! We put our house on the market because we have bought land beside my sister in law. We have 8 acres we will eventually build on off of Teal Lane. We decided to sell our house, get out of debt and start fresh. Oh what I would give to go back to when we first got married. We were debt free, but dumb. Almost 9 years and 2 ridiculous car payments later, here we are. We chose to sell, save up for a couple years and give ourselves a better foundation to go off of.
Just to reminisce a little, here is our house journey.
606 Polk Street, Manchester.
Our first home, where we brought Liam home to.
1310 Oak Drive, Manchester.
My grandparents house. We sold Polk Street and moved into here after we bought the land in Creekside Manor. Our plan was to stay here for a while and build up some money to build. Little did we know God had different plans. We found out we were having twins and brought Reid & Kane home from the hospital here. We started building on our Creekside property when we found out we were having twins.
164 Roberts Creek Circle, Manchester.
We moved into this house when the twins were 3 months old. Our friend Justin helped us build this house. We love it but we are not subdivision people. I need space and some farm animals!
3812 Murfreesboro Hwy, Manchester.
How blessed can on person be? This was my Papa's house. It is pretty neat to be able to say that I was able to live in both of my grandparents houses as an adult. We will be buying this house (because there is no where to rent and rent right now is EXPENSIVE) and saving up to build on the land we purchased within the next 5 years or so.
I received the key and started moving things immediately. Ryan is still in a cast from breaking his ankle so I moved majority of the little things by myself. I was off of work for a week so that I could concentrate on getting everything moved.
Brought the kids over to see the new house. They were excited!
We rented a Uhaul to move. Some friends of our braved the rainy weather to help us out!
My disaster of a kitchen.
Moving things into the new house...
Even Bella enjoyed getting to move.
They guys taking a break while it was raining.
Time to load up more stuff!
I spent the day before we closed cleaning up the house. I was by myself and all of a sudden it hit me. I probably cried for 30 minutes as I was cleaning. I wasn't sad about leaving the house. I was remembering all the memories that had been made in that house. There were a lot of firsts there. I decided to take it all in and I couldn't help but take some pictures of the walls that I had created there.
Oddly, the last thing that I took out of the house was the sand from our sand ceremony at our wedding. It was not purposeful but I realized it had perfect meaning. The container has been cracked and broken and some sand has fallen out but some still remains. This is a perfect interpretation of how our marriage has been these past 8 years. We have had our ups and downs, chips and cracks but we have remained strong and grown closer to each other and to God. No matter where we are in life we will always be together!
