And in with the NEW!

One good thing about selling our lovely house was getting to buy our new home! This house has four bedrooms upstairs, a full finished basement with an extra bedroom and bathroom, a fenced yard with a deck, a fireplace, and a good school district for our kids. It checked off all the must-haves from our list, as well as quite a few nice-to-haves. We knew the day we bought our old home that we would have to move out someday (if only to get into a better school district), and it is a nice feeling to know that with this house we won't have to move unless we want to! And I may never move again. Ali loves having her own room in this house, and Logan loves the basement and the chimney--for Santa to come down, of course!

Here I am in the middle of chaos the day we moved in:

When packing I promised Logan he could have one of the boxes I was packing up after we moved into our new house. I didn't realize, though I probably should have, was that he would expect a box the second he walked in the door! The kids have has about as much fun playing with the empty boxes as I have had emptying them. It is so nice to get stuff settled here!

Ali loved rediscovering things as I pulled them out of boxes:

And here we are a week later. I've actually gotten almost everything unpacked at this point, mostly it's just pictures left in boxes. But since I'm the one unpacking, often I'm the only one who knows where things are and where they need to be put away. Logan put it best when he said, "I knew where everything was in our regular house, but I can't find anything in our new one!"

We do love it here, and we're excited to see what this house brings!