We're Moving!

Today we closed on our new house!  The story of how this all fell into place is pretty amazing.  Philip is always browsing houses. He is constantly looking online and when we drive around, just looking at them. He is the dreamer of the two of us. I am the realist:)  A few months ago he told me we needed a plan. that I needed to decide if I wanted to live in Lexington or Georgetown. This was a hard decision because I have always envisioned myself living on the farm in Georgetown. And we still may eventually. But it surprised me to realize that I wasn't ready to leave my life in Lexington. My friends who stop by, girls i meet up with to go on a walk, my bible study, our church, preschool for Ainsley one day, planet thai (just kidding). I just felt like moving to gtown, I would lose a lot of that. and i've finally found my niche here. so that was decision #1.  Decision #2- do we want to have next baby in this house, or a bigger house? if this house had a basement, or even some more storage, I would love to stay here. We love this house. We love the location. but it has no space. we store so much stuff at my parents right now. it's crazy. so no way could we have another baby and everything it would accumulate, here.  So once I made those decisions, Philip felt better about having a 'plan'.  He found this house on Zillow. He showed me pictures. he is always showing me pictures of houses and I usually am just half-looking at them. But this house looked pretty awesome. In a neighborhood I have for some reason been drawn to every time we drive through it.  We agreed to pray about this house and the decision to move before we even went to look at it.  And that decision has made the biggest impact.  Once we both felt like we should go look at the house, we called the number to see when we could come look at it (for sale by owner). The girl who answered told us she was actually close to the house and could meet us there in an hour. I had been baking all day and was a mess, but we went over there to see it!  Gloria was so incredibly sweet and in love with her old home. After we left, we both just knew this was going to be our new home. I love it. and that is big for me, because I didn't even love this house when we bought it. change is hard for me and I don't deal well with it. but asking God to come into this decision gave me peace about it.  We talked everything over with our accountant (aunt ellen) and decided to put an offer on the house. After some back and forth, we reached a price that we were happy with. the seller wasn't:) but his wife convinced him to sell it to us:) i knew I liked her!  The next day at work, i told my manager that we were buying a house and selling ours. She told me that one of the managers there was looking for a house in our current neighborhood. to tell him we were putting ours up for sale. so I went to talk to him and he said he would be interested in coming to see the house.  the week after christmas him and his fiancee came over to see the house (we had to take the tree down on dec 26 and i was devastated). when they left, philip and I both looked at each other and said 'they don't like it'. I felt pretty deflated. but not too discouraged, it would have been too easy to have him buy it.  well he texted that night telling us that they loved the house and would talk to bank on monday and see what they could do. We were beyond excited. He has now signed a contract and we will close late February. God is so good. and answered our prayers in amazing ways. I told the guy who is buying our house that God had just worked this out perfectly and he said he agreed. And when I told Gloria that we sold our house without a realtor she said 'God is so good'.  We are so amazed at how much God cares for every aspect of our lives. at how if we just give decisions to Him, He will take care of them far better than anything we could have ever done on our own. in bible study last week, it was the parable of the mustard seed.  faith that small, moving mountains. 

keys to the new house! 

soooo- we are moving! we have some boxes packed and need to pack so many more. we have furniture and rugs ordered. We don't have to be out of this house until end of February, so we have time. which is soo nice. especially because ainsley is a sick little babe right now. she has bronchiolitis and bilateral ear infections. she had to get a breathing treatment and is just pitiful. :( 

“I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible." matthew 17:20