crazy spring

WOW! What a crazy spring! I can't believe so much time has passed since I've posted on the blog. I guess I'm long overdue for an update...

In early March, Duke and I decided that it's time we move into a bigger house. Somehow, the addition of two kids has shrunk our house. I still can't figure out why. It's not like they have a lot of toys or anything. HA! In moving, we also decided to get away from the city a little bit. We really want to raise the kids in a smaller community and want them go to school in a smaller school district so that they don't get lost in the masses. We began to check out some of the towns on the outskirts of Kansas City. It wasn't long before we discovered Basehor, Kansas - and a fabulous house. So, we began working furiously to get our house ready to put on the market. A few days before listing day, our realtor told us that we were close enough to go ahead and make an offer on the house that we had found... only to find out that someone had put a contract on it the day before. What luck!! This house had been on the market for 7 months and someone decided that they wanted it the day before we were ready to make our move. No big deal, right? We were just getting ready to list our house and figured that we would have plenty of time to look for a different house. In this market, we assumed that it would take several months until we sold the house and closed on it. WRONG!! We got two offers within 6 days and accepted the second one. So there we were, facing a moving date (July 31) with nowhere to move to!!!

A couple of weeks ago, we found a great house in the Piper area. It's not in the part of town that we want to live in, but the builder said that he would build the same house for us in Basehor. So now we're in the process of trying to identify a subdivision and a lot. There are a couple of options that are being priced out and we hope to have something decided in the next couple of weeks so that we can move forward with building. The way we figure it, we will be displaced for about three or four months. During that time, we plan to store most of our belongings and move into a "cozy" two-bedroom apartment. It'll be crowded, but we have something very exciting to look forward to!! I'll keep you posted on the progress.