Luke and I made it -- 17 hour moving truck ride and all! When we first pulled out of our subdivision and started on our journey from Houston at 4:00 a.m., the truck cab was pretty uncomfortable and I was thinking "Oh man, this is going to be the longest day of my life..." But, it did get better and we actually had a pretty decent day. We got to our apartment in Illinois at about 9:00 p.m., and just crashed. Monday morning, the missionaries came by and helped us move most our stuff into the back bedroom of our little apartment. It is stuffed pretty much to the ceiling! (see picture below). We figured if we were going to buy a house soon, there was no point unpacking anything!
We had been looking around the area and a few areas up north for houses that we liked and we were really struggling with the decision of where to live. We weren't sure we were going to find something that we really liked in the town that Luke works, so we were exploring all the surrounding towns and wards and trying to figure out what we felt like we should do.
After we got somewhat settled, we went on another house-hunting trip with our realtor and we found the perfect house! We put an offer on it a few days later and it was accepted! So we have a house! Well, not officially until the end of the month, but pretty close. We are super excited and Luke is ecstatic that his commute is about 5 minutes. (I don't think we can call that a commute....). It is definitely an improvement from his previous commute, which was 50 minutes one way.
The house definitely needs some updates because the couple who owned the home are retiring to Florida and their taste in wallpaper and paint colors are definitely "from another time...," but we are really looking forward to the projects and making it "ours."
Our "storage unit":
July
8 years ago
