A House Hunting Miracle

It's been a full week of change for us, and we are so excited for all the new positive change we will experience in the next few months.  Since we knew that we would be moving soon after I graduated we opted for my mom to take the sofa that my grandparents had so graciously lent us.  We didn't plan on buying any new furniture until we were moved into a new place so we didn't have to move furniture, BUT we found out there are no Sofa Marts on the west side of the state and we LOVED a chair at Sofa Mart.  So last Thursday Oley and I made our third largest purchase (over $1000) as a married couple.  We are so excited for our new couch and chair. 

Needless to say we are pretty excited.  The chair matches the couch and ottoman much better in person, here it looks horrible. 

Friday we planned to make a trip to the west side to find a place to rent while I work and Oley hopefully gets into the program over at UW next January.  We had a whole list of places we were going to look at starting on Friday so when we finally got there we met with a property manager who showed us 3 houses and none of them were going to work.  We then drove to Oley's Aunt's house where we would be staying for the night and I had received a fairly random email that was about an open house the next day.  When I looked at the house it looked much like one of the houses we looked at earlier that night, but becuase there was no lawn we weren't going to be able to pursue it.  So I wasn't even going to keep looking but I noticed there was a picture of Christ above their fireplace, and it was definitely one sold in an LDS bookstore so I told Oley if we had time we should probably go see this place. 

Well we had pretty well packed out schedule at the time of the open house so I didn't think we would be able to make it.  Gratefully the appointment we had scheduled at 11 to go to 1 only lasted till 12:15.  The open house was to last until 12:30, coincidentally enough the last house we were looking at was only 3 minutes from this home and so we decided we would hurry over and see if we could make it in time.  Long story short we got there in time and when we met the property manager we got talking and found out he too was LDS as well as the owners of the house and the entire company that manages this property.  The house was perfect 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and a HUGE walk in closet! And it's nice to know we will be dealing with honest people. 

The backyard is perfect for the little monsters.

The front of the house

The kitchen is great and it has a dining room right off of it.

 We are super excited to be making this big change in our lives and for what the future will hold.  Since we will be so close to the Sea-Tac airport we are expecting a lot of visitors!