We moved into our new house!

It's been awhile, but for a good reason. We finally moved into our new house! It's crazy to think that one day when Bryson was about 2 weeks old, Ty came home from work and randomly said, "What if we build a house?" 

In my exhausted, ratty haired, spit-up-on-my-shirt state, I said, "What? Seriously?" We went to talk to the builder that weekend, and the rest is history.

We moved into the house about 2 weeks ago with the help of our parents.

It was a LONG day, but we got the majority of the stuff we needed. We also brought Bubba over after all our helpers had gone home, and he adjusted so much better than we could've hoped.

This one egg was the only loss in the whole move...and we have a LOT of fragile items!

Ty spent the rest of the week making trips back to the old house to clear out the garage, shed, and patio furniture. And let me tell ya, when you have an 8 month old who thinks he needs constant attention...unpacking is a much slower process! However, it's amazing what can get done during nap and bedtimes.

Then last Friday we closed on the old house. It was definitely bittersweet. It was our first home, where we brought our baby home, said goodbye to our dog, and so many other memories that a first home brings.

We got to talk with the new couple moving into our house and it was so great to hear that it's also their first house. They've been working hard to get their finances in order to buy their first home and are ready to start a family. It meant a lot to us that this will be an important place for them as well.

Now that everything at the old house is all settled, we're setting out to officially make this new house a home. It's hard to make definitive decorating decisions because we plan to get a few new pieces of furniture, but we're slowly getting there. For now, it still feels a little like a house we've rented to stay in on vacation. 

I NEVER in a million years thought I'd want to build a house. It was just never something that interested me. But seeing the process through from start to finish has been so fun, and it's crazy that it's all over now. However, I do find myself thinking from time to time that Ty was insane to bring this whole idea up when we had a 2 week-old!

xoxo, wife (& mommy)