Goodbye House....

Adam and I were lucky enough to buy a house when we first got married. We had decided to move to Fishers when we got married. Adam had been living with friends in Broad Ripple and I was graduating from Purdue when we began looking for a house. We searched for a few months and found a perfect home for us in Fishers. It was close to my parents but yet not too close. It was only 7 miles from them so it allowed us to be close for when we/I needed them and yet far enough away for us to feel like we were on our own.

We had chosen Fishers because lets face it I'm a north side girl forever, and I wanted a little separation from Carmel and the place I grew up. We had originally planned to start a family after just a year of marriage and we didn't want to live somewhere for only a year or so and then have to move because of the school system. So we chose Fishers because of the great school system.

When we began our house search I quickly fell in love with the balcony off master bedroom and Adam liked the fact that it had a garage and a fenced in backyard for the dogs he wanted. It had 3 bedrooms with the potential to be 4 with just needing to add a closet.

We quickly put in an offer and after a little back and forth we agreed on a price. Unfortunately due to the person we had originally chosen to do our mortgage being incompetent we almost lost out on the house, but luckily my dad was able to buy it for us while we got approved for our loan. So Adam moved in about 2 weeks before our wedding. I moved a majority of my things in before the wedding but didn't officially move in until after we got married.






About 3 weeks after we got married we were finally able to close on OUR house. We owned a house! Here is a picture of us outside the place where we closed! HOLY COW we are HOMEOWNERS!

Over the years this house really became a home. It was a place of great comfort to me. We brought home all 5 of our babies to this house. We raised our sweet puppies in this house. It held so many parties, birthdays and christmases. It was a place where Adam and I found our footing as a married couple who lived in the same city for the first time and lived together for the first time! 

It was also the place where Adam and I grieved our biggest loss. It was the place where we both fell completely apart as we adjusted to the news that our twins were likely not going to survive and when one didn't its where we were able to comfort each other as we grieved. 

This house holds so many memories for us. It was a tough decision but after doing the drive from fishes to carmel multiple times a day we decided it was time to make the move. After the girls we had decided to put Lincoln into Catholic school at our church. It was 20-25 minutes from our house with obviously no bussing. There are 17...yes 17 stop lights between our house and church. It was a haul. With 4 kids I just couldn't do it. I spent so much time in the car!! So we made the decision to move. In April of 2018 we moved all of our stuff out, into storage and moved in with my parents. 

Over the next 6 weeks we updated the house, got new flooring throughout the house, new countertops in the kitchen and got a backsplash and the bathrooms got new countertops and tile floors. We finally put it on the market in early July and got an offer about 30 days later with a closing date of September 17. 

Before our closing we of course had to go back to the house one last time and get some pictures of all of us. My favorite is of the kids on the front step. It makes me sad to think that I'll never get to have any pictures of them there anymore, its the place that I always turned to to take 'that' picture. It also makes me sad that Sadie is not in the picture, since we lost her about 3 weeks before this. This girl who HATES change of any sort is really struggling with leaving the only real house she has known for the last 10 years and then on top of that not having my puppy anymore.

Overall this house is a good one...it taught me so much of what to look for when it come to a house...number one being A SILVERWARE DRAWER!!! There were many many frustrations of being inexperienced homeowners (thank.you.GOD.for.my.dad.and.all.his.help) but overall I can look back on this house with so many fond memories with our family and our neighbors. Its been a good ride!! but now to find our forever home!!! (hopefully we won't be living with my parents for too long)

Here we are after closing on our house. We are officially homeless...well minus the fact that we are now living with my parents in the house I grew up in!!!