House Hunting

Jacob & Lydia

Aunt Kaitlyn & Lydia

Gma Jan, Kinsey & Lydia

While Lydia found some fun at Gma Jan & Gpa Bruce's house,

Ben, Abigail, and I found a new home for us:

It was slim pickings for houses in the southern area of Milwaukee County due to people being skittish about putting their house on the market and many people moving to the area with CAT. But that's okay because there just had to be one good house, and we found it! Now builders haven't been building spec houses since the banks won't give them loans anymore, but it's like a spec house to us. This house was being built for someone else, but recently their financing fell through, and then the builders put it up for sale. How fortunate for us since we won't have to wait nine months for it, yet we are coming in at a point where we can make lots of selections (but not as many as if we were building a new house for us--I've always thought that would be too stressful), and it's new! Excellent lot, new elementary school in the subdivision, 10 minute commute for Ben, 3 miles from Lake Michigan beach (Bender Beach)! Looking forward to closing September 5th!

On the Peoria side of things, we had our first successful open house (15 couples came through) and a second showing tomorrow.