This is me and Toula right after I picked her up from the vet. She was a little out of it to say the least....
Will drove up from Waco and met us in Rockwall (which is where he is from and where Toula's vet is) AND is where we began our.....HOUSE HUNTING! Yes! We are hoping to move into a real house when our lease is up in May. I am beyond excited about having a place of our own! We were originally looking in downtown Dallas because that's where our jobs and friends are but the houses are so small and so expensive, and when we realized how much more home we could get in the suburbs it just wasn't worth the convenience.
We decided on Rockwall because....
1) Will grew up there and his parents still live there
2) It's the closest commute (from a suburb) to Dallas for Will
3) There are mulitple school districts around for me to apply to
4) It's cute!
We planned on just driving around picking up flyers, maybe going into some open houses, but then we found this neighborhood and fell in love! It's brand new and we found two great builders with tons of cute affordable floorplans. So now house hunting has turned into house BUILDING! We have narrowed it down to a few floorplans so once we decide we're pretty sure we're going to dive in and purchase a lot. Builders are throwing in tons of incentives right now and the prices/interest rates/etc. are so low it just works for us. We spent all evening last night and most of today going through floor plans and all the options picking and choosing what we like.
Toula rode around with us lounging on the backseat with the windows rolled down; pretty much post-op heaven for a dog. We did drop her off at Will's parent's house so we could get lunch and that is when we spotted....
Peter Cottontail eating Will's mom's parsley! When we got back he had eaten all of it, nothing left but the stems. Nice going Petey.
Today has been a pleasantly slow day...it was 75* and sunny so went spent the day outside tossing around the old pigskin -- afterwards Will told me I was a pretty good catcher "for a girl." Thanks hun. We also took Toula for a walk down to the 7-11 and got slurpees. Now we're
Hope everyone had their 3-D glasses on during halftime!
xo, Lynds
YAY! so exciting! Jonathan and I are doing the same thing/ went through the same thing. We wanted an older house in the city but it cost too much and you get way too little. PLUS since the housing market sucks our builder gave us great deals! It is so much fun. Do you get to go to a design meeting? Those are so much fun! Good luck!
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