5.1

We have some exciting news!!!  If you have been reading the blog, for over the past few years we have wanted to find land and either build or buy a house.  We had our house on the market for several months and checked out house after house and property but it just wasn't in our budget nor the area we wanted to live.  So, we took it off the market and just honestly began to pray that we would be able to build the house we want on the land we want. That seemed like such a big thing to be faithful about, I mean how often does that happen?  2 acre lots where we were looking were out of our price range for the most part and putting a house on top of that was just not gonna happen!  But we had faith that our patience would pay off.  About 2 weeks ago, Jarrett got in one of those "I want to move moods" and I was NOT on board with it.  He started searching and found a piece of land in a new neighborhood that was in a cul-de-sac, good location and more land then we both had hoped for (5 acres) for a really, REALLY good- too good to be true price.  So we drove out there and both loved it!  It was perfect for us.  We checked into it a bit more and it was some land that was in foreclosure.  We put a bid in on it, only to wait over a week to find out that 4 more people had put bid on it too.

This made us start to worry, but we held true to our confession that this was our land.  My dad kept saying to not get our hopes up and I told him we weren't because we knew it was ours.  Even our agent seemed like she was unsure if the bank was going to accept our offer since it was priced extremely way under value and there were so many more bids.  We decided to just keep praying over it that it was ours and if it was we were supposed to ours then we would get it.

On Thursday afternoon, I got a call that they had accepted our offer!!!!!!!  We are beyond excited and excited about this next adventure in our lives.  Thankful doesn't describe how we feel right now since we spent a good part of this whole year paying for Gabe's birth and NICU stay.  We are right now looking at building, nothing fancy, maybe changing somethings to fit our family....more storage, 2 car garage.  Jarrett said on our first date that he wanted to find land and live in the country one day, me- I like to be near Target :) BUT he has always gone along with any of my ideas and dreams, so I figured that being out in the quiet county won't be so bad.  I am so happy that my boys will have lots of places to play, imagine, dig and get dirty!