My favorite house!!

We lived in a lot of apartments and many different states before buying our first home. During our apartment stints and short term living situations I dreamed about our first house. Then three years ago Weston got a permanant stable job. So we started house hunting. I drove into a neighborhood and I instantly knew this is where I wanted to live. It had all three schools in the neighborhood, lots of parks, walking trails, open green space, a splash pad, basketball courts and the church. For our stage of life it was our dream. Weston worked hard to be able to buy our house and for that I am so grateful to him. 8 months later our house was complete and we moved in. Within months I fell in love with my new house. It was ours and memories were already being made. We didn't have a set time frame for living in it but certainly our plan was longer than what happened. Last weekend we moved out and it was hard and sad. Although Weston was transferred with his job and it's great for his career, it was sad to have to say goodbye to our dream first house and neighborhood. My kids each had best friends that lived two houses away. I had a great friend on the street. The type of friend who I borrowed eggs from and she would do anything for me and vice versa. I know it's just a house but it was ours and I miss it. I like to think those walls miss our voices too. We had some killer dance parties in those walls, great baking days on rainy days, lots of talking, story telling, and learning new things. There were tears, hard days, and lots of prayers within those walls. It was our safe haven from the world. When Haylee came home crying from school we would snuggle on the couch and she knew she was loved there no matter what. We loved watching snow storms and thunder storms from our warm house in the winter. I loved watching each of my kids learn how to ride their bikes on the sidewalks outside of our house. Haylee started pre school and kindergarten in that house. Even though we were only there for two years that house will forever always hold a huge chunk of my heart!!!!

Saying goodbye to best friends!!!