Moving On

It is with mixed emotions that we say good-bye to our first house - the house we moved into after we got married, the house we brought both our girls home from the hospital in, and the house we created tons of memories in.  When we first bought the house, we knew we would probably be in it for 5-7 years before outgrowing it, and sure enough, 6 years later, we are moving on.  We (well, mostly Cody) has put a lot of hard work into this house updating, painting (and re-painting thanks to my ever changing taste) and making it our own since we moved in.  I'm mostly sad about leaving our wonderful Issaquah/Sammamish community and lots of friends in the area, but we are only going about 30 minutes north to Bothell.  Ironically, our new house is about 2 miles from where I grew up.  We are excited to be moving into a great kid-friendly neighborhood in a new community.  And we're very excited that we'll actually have room for friends and family to stay with us while visiting and that we have plenty of room to grow into our new house.  We are so thankful for answered prayers that our house sold quickly (sold on the first day of showings!!) and that our new house came on the market at the right time so we didn't have to live in temporary housing - God was certainly in control of this whole situation!  I wanted to include the pictures of our first home (taken by our real estate agent's photographer) so we'll always remember it.