Wednesday, May 30, 2012

We bought a house!

About a month and a half ago, Matt accepted a job back up in Midland, where he did residency.  If you’d have told me 7 years ago, when I was just planning to move to Hawaii for a year that I’d be living in Michigan, married, with 3 kids, I’d have laughed in your face.  But, here we are and staying in Michigan for at least the next few years.  Matt is getting to help start up a sports medicine clinic along with one of his former residency faculty.  He will also be doing some urgent care while the sports picks up business, but hopefully that will be short term. 

We went up house hunting one weekend and after seeing pretty much every possible house in our price range, ended up making an offer on the first one we had seen.  It had been on the market for quite awhile (had several offers where financing fell through) and we ended up getting a fantastic deal! (the pictures aren’t great, we are kicking ourselves for not taking our own).house

Great kitchen—I am loving all that counter space!

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The basement is partially finished, and they did it really nicely!341237_16_r

The boys are going to love the yard!  Especially since we haven’t had one at all in the last year.

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It does need some minor updating, mostly paint and ripping down wallpaper.

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I’m a little nervous that the master is on the main floor and the kids will all be upstairs, but I think once we get used to it, it will be fine.

We’re excited to get back to somewhere familiar, where we have great friends and a wonderful place for kids!

1 comment:

Beth said...

looks like a great find! so many wonderful features, eh what's a little repainting?
happy for you all to have a place, and happy matt is doing what he always wanted.
sure is crazy the turns life takes- but good ones and glad i got to know you guys along one of them!