Moving

Not us, not anytime soon anyway. Spencer and I did however go look at a house at the first of the year. It was just too good for us not to check out, it was in a great neighborhood, on acres of land, lots of rooms, a pool, a guest house and the should be very expensive house was in our price range. Well the house was on top of a mountain, all that great land was down the side of the mountain. The house was turned weird so you had to walk halfway down the mountain driveway to get to the front door or your guests could just walk through the 4 car garage. The space was amazing and open and there were so many rooms, which we would love. The big problem was the foundation, the guest looked like it could soon fall off the mountain, the concrete around the pool was sunken in and the hardwood in the kitchen eating area was falling in. So there were lots of reasons why this house was so cheap.
Anyways, looking at the house got me thinking. Our house is not perfect. It needs to be painted on the outside and the kitchen and living room desperately need to be painted. Spencer hates the hardwood in the livingroom and the carpet in the dinning room. Our jacuzzi tub leaks so the face of it had been off for over two years now. (hint hint Spencer please fix it so our bathroom doesn't look awful anymore) We still have not replaced the shoe molding that got ripped up when we tiled the kitchen and bathrooms. We don't have a guest room anymore because it has been turned into a playroom/ my office/ craft room. If we have another child it will have to sleep with Keyser. And no we don't have acres of land, that's just a dream.
But I love this house. It's the house that I moved into as a newlywed.

It's the house that sweet Otis had to learn to share the bed with someone other than me.

It's the house that we brought this sweet little puppy home to

And where these two developed their on going love hate relationship

It's the house that we built the fence for the backyard

It's the house we celebrated our first Christmas as a family in

It's the house that I told Spencer we were going to have a baby in

It's the house that I wanted to kick my sweet husband out of on several occasions when I was being a crazy hormonal pregnant woman.

It's the house that my husband has learned to do so many great things. Like running power, phone and internet out to the garage so he could finish off the second floor and turned it into his office/man room. Yes since we had a baby on the way he got booted out.

It's the house that we brought this beautiful little angel home to.

It's the house I had my first Mother's day in

It's in this house that this tiny little angel has completely changed our lives

It's in this house that the awful dog that I threatened to get rid of several times when I was a crazy prego, turned into a wonderful protective dog who is now Madelyn's best bud

It's in this house that we have had lots of firsts. First roll over, first crawl, first steps and first birthday.

It was in this house that Madelyn got her first kiss from this little sweetie

It's the house that we have met great neighbors at. The kind of neighbors that have great kids all around the same age and who all get along and play together. Neighbors that love our child like their own and know that we would claim theirs as our own.

This is the house that we will have Madelyn's 2nd birthday at in just 2 months.

 It's the house that we have made so many precious memories in and will continue to make special memories. It's the house that when we finally do move one day it will be hard to leave. Not only is it the house that is bright and sparkly at Christmas time, it's the house that sparkles in my eyes all the time from all the love and memories that have been shared to make this house our wonderful HOME that we love so much.