Moving Into Our Home

The first road we went down as newly weds was moving into our first home. Now, finding our first home wasn't as hard as we had imagined. We had it in our heads what we wanted. More importantly we had figured out what we could afford and now it was just finding the perfect house that we could make a home.

We spent many Saturdays in houses we knew would never be our home. There was always something we didn't like. To small, wrong neighborhood or we just couldn't afford it. Until one Saturday we visited the Kessler Walk subdivision. It was the third model home we looked at that day. We knew as soon as we walked in the door that this one was for us.

The first floor was perfect. The kitchen had plenty of cabinet space for all of kitchen equipment that a chef brings to a home. There was a three sided fireplace between the living room and the dining room, for little stockings to hang on at Christmas time. The dinning room was big enough for a family size table...that would be where we would have dinner every night and talk about how our days were. We were sold.

The second floor had a loft, a master bedroom with a huge bathtub and two other bedrooms. Perfect for us and the two children that we had been dreaming about...this was the house. As we walked around the model we began to dream. We asked each other so many question like...How would it look and feel when people came into our home? Where would we put the furniture? What pictures would look good on the walls? We even picked which room would be the nursery. We were ready to move in. So we got to work on making this dream come true.


Soon we were moving in. We started making the house a home right away. First we unpacked boxes and then we found a place for all the things we had accumulated as a couple. Okay, I will be honest. Mostly when I say we unpacked boxes and we found places for things that means it was me throwing out his bachelor things like the orange and white pheasant couch. I mean seriously do we really need that!

Then we started grooming the lawn. We planted trees that we would watch grow for the next 50 years and tulips that would reminded us of our wedding day every spring. We were planting roots literally. Then the most amazing thing happened we found PAINT! Isn't it amazing how paint changes a room. We painted every room. We started in the loft and hit all the rooms in the house. We changed every look of every room in that first year except for one....we kept the nursery white. We were waiting until I got pregnant before we choose a theme....little did we know how long that room would stay white.