Lucas and I have been talking about what our "dream house" would be like forever.  Back right after Mari was born we had started thinking about looking around to move, since our house was seeming smaller with two girls and we were looking for something with a bit more land.  We looked around a little and didn't see much that interested us in our price range, and we had a realtor come look at our house and were disappointed in how much she thought we could get for our house.  So, we decided to put moving on hold for a bit.  

Well, to make a long story short, we went driving around one day and came across this really cool looking brown house.  We figured it would be way outside of our price range, but decided to go take a look anyways.  Well as soon as we walked up to the house, I kept thinking to myself, "this was a bad idea!" because I loved pretty much everything about the house!  Ha!  

As you can see below, we decided to bite the bullet and go for it.  We got the old house rented out in a week and it was a long, painful process to make the house ours (as there were several other offers on the house at the same time), but HERE we are in front of our brand new wonderful house sitting on about 3.5 acres!  It needs some love but we couldn't be more excited!! :-)