We are going to be moving into a house! It's been amazing to see God's hand in our housing journey and his provisions for our family never end. Once we found out we were expecting baby #2 we started searching for a 3 bedroom house to rent. We have plenty of space where we are now, but only 2 bedrooms. While it's completely do-able, I was worried about my little light sleeper having to share a room with a teething baby. I found this house
online awhile ago and fell in love with it. There are only a few options to choose from here in Smithfield and everything we were finding was way out in the country, too small or too expensive. This house was a rare find and is perfect for us. It's in a nice neighborhood (actually it's right behind where we are now), it has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, a 2 car garage with lots of storage, an extra room for Ben's music stuff and our favorite part: a large yard on a cul-de-sac. When we initially called on the house they told us they wouldn't allow pets and that we had to make a certain amount of money to qualify (Ben was like $50 away from the cut off). When the door closed on our face to the house we moved on and kept looking, but nothing was coming up. Last week Ben found the same house on another website that had it listed at a lower price and they had dropped all of their stipulations. When Ben called again they were now eager for us to apply and asked when we could come look at the property. We finally heard this morning that our application was accepted out of a compition of 3 other people. That in itself is a miracle. Considering what our credit currently looks like because all of our Michigan house stuff just hit it, it really is amazing that they chose us. We are really excited to be in a house again and I can't wait to set up the nursery for the baby. A family from church just asked us if they could give us their daughter's old furniture, so Alison will also get a new room. It's going to be a stressful month, trying to figure out timing of moving and the holiday's but I think it's going to be worth it.
This is a little video of Alison singing. The first "song" is the end of the song we sing to her before bedtime and then the ABC's. I love the way she says 'w'.
online awhile ago and fell in love with it. There are only a few options to choose from here in Smithfield and everything we were finding was way out in the country, too small or too expensive. This house was a rare find and is perfect for us. It's in a nice neighborhood (actually it's right behind where we are now), it has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, a 2 car garage with lots of storage, an extra room for Ben's music stuff and our favorite part: a large yard on a cul-de-sac. When we initially called on the house they told us they wouldn't allow pets and that we had to make a certain amount of money to qualify (Ben was like $50 away from the cut off). When the door closed on our face to the house we moved on and kept looking, but nothing was coming up. Last week Ben found the same house on another website that had it listed at a lower price and they had dropped all of their stipulations. When Ben called again they were now eager for us to apply and asked when we could come look at the property. We finally heard this morning that our application was accepted out of a compition of 3 other people. That in itself is a miracle. Considering what our credit currently looks like because all of our Michigan house stuff just hit it, it really is amazing that they chose us. We are really excited to be in a house again and I can't wait to set up the nursery for the baby. A family from church just asked us if they could give us their daughter's old furniture, so Alison will also get a new room. It's going to be a stressful month, trying to figure out timing of moving and the holiday's but I think it's going to be worth it.
This is a little video of Alison singing. The first "song" is the end of the song we sing to her before bedtime and then the ABC's. I love the way she says 'w'.
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Yay! I am looking forward to helping you pack, decorate, whatever here in a couple of weeks. And also listening to Miss Alison sing.
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