In January I had this overwhelming feeling that we NEEDED to move. I laughed it off, and thought there is no way I will ever be able to get Michael to agree to that, and we could never afford to move either. A few more weeks went by and a neighbor of ours put their house on the market. Michael and I started talking more and more about moving before interest rates went back up.
In the meantime I really have been working on cleaning out and de-junking our house. Mostly for myself to feel like I enjoy my surroundings. In mid February we got hooked up with a realtor and he told us what he thought he could get for our house.(keep in mind I spent the 4 days before he came cleaning and staging our house. I even hired someone for an afternoon to clean for me.) The market in our area was kind of in a funny place where new jobs were coming and there really wasn't a lot on the market for under $200,000. We COULD do it!!! We could sell our house for enough to pay a realtor and have a 10% down payment on our next home. We had a photographer come on a Saturday afternoon, Monday evening our house was officially on the market and by Wednesday afternoon our house was under contract for only $3000 less than what we were asking. It happened so fast.
At the same time we were looking for a house in the Lehi area. We looked at everything available and couldn't find anything we were interested in living in. Michael had been pushing for us to move to Daybreak and I was very hesitant because of losing my babysitting, and moving from where we were familiar. I really like Lehi, but Daybreak is a lot closer to Michael's work. I agreed to go and look in the area. That night we also went to houses on the Herriman area. We looked at quite a few but, nothing is what we felt good about. Our final house we went to see was on a 3 acre park in Daybreak. It was such a cute house, and if I wasn't going to have much of a yard......a park could totally make up for that. I remember standing on the front porch and getting this warm feeling. I knew before we walked in that this was OUR house. I wasn't going to say anything to Michael because he thinks I get too excited to quick. He looked at me though, and I knew he felt the same way as I did.
We made an offer that night, the next morning as we waited to hear back, we went to an open house close to the house we made an offer on. We like the open house house but, it didn't have everything our house had. At 2pm we heard back and the house was ours IF we could rent it back to the current owners until June....late June.
March went by quick, we had home inspections, appraisals that went bad and good. Getting a storage unit, helping move my parents house around so there was room for us to live. We moved into my parents house, closed on our Lehi house all before the end of March. I was so relieved when everything was finalized on our townhouse. I was so nervous the whole time we lived in that house that we were going to be there forever, because of how bad the market had gotten.
The first week of April we closed on our new house. We own it, but are renting it. Hanging out in Alpine has been a lot of fun. My parents really like having the kids around and I really like having my parents around. It is a nice change of pace. I am currently driving a lot to get kiddos to and from school, but it isn't too bad. I am glad we didn't have to change things too much for them.
I would like to say that this whole moving experience has been a real eye opener for me. I truly believe in being guided to what where you are supposed to be in life. I am not the most spiritual person and will never proclaim to be, but I do believe if our hearts are good and we have genuine intentions we will be guided to where we are supposed to be. My Heavenly Father knows me, and how I genuinely believe in my family and what I want for it. I am grateful that he knows me and I know him. Not in the way that everyone around feels that I should be, but in the way I am comfortable with and in a way I understand and learn.
Stay tuned for our "Moving In" adventures.
