Ok.. so this has been a big secret that we have been keeping from many people. I have secretly been searching for homes back in Madison WI for the past few weeks. I made a trip down there and stayed for a week. I hooked up with a great realtor and we began our home searching process. Chris met me for a couple of days to help make the final decision. Two handfuls of people know but that is it. We wanted to make sure everything was a go ahead, with Chris at work and everything, before we told people. He gave his two weeks today. Chris has been really unhappy for a while with work and it just felt like the right time to move.
We put our house up for sale by owner, thinking that the market was bad and it would take months and months to sell. We knew that we wanted to get back to Madison to be by family in the near future, we just didn't expect it to be this soon and all of a sudden. Well, it only took 2 weeks from the time we put the sign in our yard to the time that we got an offer on it. Not bad. So, with the offer, we had to in return find a house. So we have to be out of here by August 4 because the buyers needed to close that day.
We found a very nice house in Oregon, kinda by bergamont golf course. You can see the back of it from the park down the road. It needs a bit of work, outside upkeep and inside painting, recarpeting, oh and a new kitchen. ( The kitchen in this place is just weird) But we are enjoying picking out our own things. We decided that we wanted to purchase this house and do a minor fix up job to make it our own. And in the end, if we wanted to sell it in a couple of years and upgrade, we can make tons of money on it. Hopefully we wont be moving again for a while, though :) This will be our new home. So... so long Iowa, and hello Oregon.. Now grammy, papa, grandma kim, auntie coco, uncle David, auntie jenna, and Gavin can see the kids and us all the time :)
Here are some pictures of our house in Iowa that we are going to miss. We put a lot of work into the house but it was worth it in the end.