Houses!

So we decided a while ago to move out of our current house and get a bigger house and yard.  We had done some updates and hoped that we would get a fast offer. We put our house on the market in Oct 2014 and had LOTS of showings. We had one almost everyday but no offers. Kris and I were starting to get a little worried as we had finally decided to build a home and were going forward with that even before we sold.
We went to California for Christmas not expecting anything during the holidays. The Sat after Christmas i was woken up by our Realtor- she had 2 offers for us! We asked her to get 'best and final' offers for us and that we would decide by Monday. As we were traveling back home we got yet another offer! We are so blessed to have gotten so many competitive offers- most were beyond our asking price!
Now I've watched bidding wars on my HGTV shows but now i truly know how much sellers like them!! It was great- we had a smooth closing and got what we needed to make sure our new house would continue. We had about 3.5 weeks to move out and that was crazy but we know that we are blessed for how everything has worked out and are so grateful!
It was just a tad hard to say goodbye to our 'starter' house but we are so excited for the future!

Today is the day! After waiting 11 weeks for our permit to go through we are finally breaking ground!! We are anxious for the house to be built but know we have 4 more months of being homeless (not really but apartment living is different).
I am planning on Kris taking a picture of our lot/house everyday so we can see the progress and show our kids in the future. Here is ground breaking day - Feb 24th 2015!!

Look for house updates in the future!