Wow! It's 2013 and my last post was in 2011

I'm such a slacker! I created this blog to journal my family life and well, I haven't even written about it since um... I don't even know where to start to catch up :(

I'll start with end of 2011:

We decided to once again look for a home and get serious. With lots of thought, money moving, saving and budget changes, we finally got a home. It wasn't easy. It was very hard to find a home we all really liked. After looking at quite a few in our original pricing budget, we figured out that we would have to spend quite a bit of time fixing and time we didn't have. We had been talking about changing our price bracket and going to a neighborhood looking at one home and seeing another with a for sale sign that caught our eye influenced the idea too. Our awesome agent Gretchen Knowles, who never ever tried to push anything we didn't want, went ahead and arranged a viewing and guess what...all three of us loved it. The experience was crazy yet amazing. The previous owners, The Estes', were so great to work with and blessed us very much. We basically bought a fully furnished home even with things like a vacuum cleaner, mower and cleaning products for parts of the home. Here are the photos from HAR and what we saw before we moved in.

http://thefosterfamily2009.shutterfly.com/recentactivity/3

At least half of the stuff you see in the photos were left. We have made many changes the past year like changing the downstairs guest room to a NURSERY but I have so many ideas and things to add to our wonderful wonderful home that we have been so blessed with and very thankful for. Our neighborhood is such a blessing too. It's a small neighborhood, sort of hidden in the area and I would say 90% of the owners are the original owners back from the late 70's. Yes we are one of the few youngest owners and we absolutely love it. We also happen to be next door to a family in our same age range with kiddos for Deus to play with who we have greatly enjoyed getting to know. We have a total on top of things neighborhood captain too who I just love to visit with and so grateful to have someone like her head of our team to watch out for our neighbors.

So as I start getting back into this blogging thing, tons of stuff will come up with our home and the changes we make slowly but surely.