New Home

I really love my new job, but the one drawback is the commute. The drive is an hour each way with traffic and it's exhausting. 
Because of the commute and with the twins starting kindergarten in the fall we made the difficult decision to leave our awesome neighborhood.

These cuties start kindergarten in the fall

It took about two months to declutter the house and neutralize everything. 

Removed all family photos and put up neutral wall art. Easy access to cool wall art is one perk of my new job.

link or butterfly wall art at Wisteria

We had to get a storage unit for some stuff, but it was all worth it. We listed our house on a Saturday morning, had showings over the weekend with multiple offers by mid day Monday. 

link to pictures from listing our home.

We close in a few weeks and we were thrilled it sold so quickly. 

Part of our house selling so quickly was the nature of the market. Next we were on the other side and had to act fast. 

We hunted in Richardson based on a locations serving specific schools. It was tough, because we didn't fall in love with anything. When there was one we thought would work it was sold before we put in an offer.

Carl scoured all the listing sites and watch for everything that came on the market. We considered a new build, but were concerned about how long we'd have to wait for the building to be complete.

On Wednesday, right before the snow/ice storm we looked at house that fit our needs. 

It had all the space we needed, was in good school district and was a little over 20 minutes from my work and 20 minutes from my Mom. The address is Dallas, but the school district is Plano. We acted quickly and made an offer. The seller had one other offer but accepted ours. 

While the kids played in the snow, we bid on a new home

We move at the end of April.

What a crazy whirlwind in just two weeks!