We have a house!!

We have been looking for a place to live almost every weekend since Christmas. We searched the papers, internet and drove around all over looking at places, calling people and hoping we would at least find something to rent. One weekend we must have called 10 people but no one answered and no one called us back. We looked at several places and were hopeful, but every time we got our hopes up, something went wrong. We were starting to get a little frustrated. Then one day the last week of January, Jim got a call out of the blue from one of the people we had called from a for sale by owner sign we saw on a house. The guy was the builder and he said he would meet us to look at it and he seemed very willing to help us out any way he could to make a deal happen. And it did! We met with him and his brother on Saturday, talked a little while, and we gave him some money. We will have to close later in the month because he is going on a week long fishing trip. :) So we will be moving at the end of the month. Yeah! We are so excited to actually own a house again and not pay someone else's mortgage. :) It feels great to have a great place to put down roots and raise our girls in a home.

Kitchen - they are putting in a stove and fridge

Master Bath - you can see the garden tub and big tile shower in mirror

Front Door - We are going to paint the trim, door and add some shutters to make it more appealing, but I like the glass in the door.

The girl's bathroom - I love the tile

The deck - It is bigger than this, you can't see it all in this picture.


The house is brand new built in 2007, but we will be the first owners. The builders did such a nice job and we love it. It is a 3 bedroom, 2 bath with a nice open floor plan. It has plenty of room for the girls to play and roam around. The baths have 18' tile on the floors, beautiful tile in the showers, the cabinets are the big oak cabinets and it has a great covered deck off the back. It is on 1.24 acres on a corner lot. The yard will need some work to get grass to grow because they brought some dirt in to level the yard, but Jim needs a good project to work on. The front needs some color and some curb appeal added to it, but we will work on making it ours and it is going to be a great place to raise our girls. It is in Callahan, FL just northwest of Jacksonville. We chose to live there because we like more of a country living feel. We also love the church family we have there. We lived in that area before and loved it there. It is still close to Jim's family. We are so excited to get moved and settled in. I'll add some more pics later, these I just took real quick while we were looking at it.