For sale.

Today is an exciting day!  Today is also kind of a sad day.  Today our house is officially on the market, for sale!

It's amazing- the process where, all at once, a house becomes a home.  I'm not sure when in the past four years it happened, but at some point, it happened.  I know that it definitely didn't feel like my home at the beginning.  It was in ROUGH shape!  With its brown, scuffed linoleum floors in the kitchen, a Pepto Bismol explosion guest bathroom, and scraggly, dead Hollies planted in the front yard, the "homey" factor was definitely missing from this house.  Thankfully, Todd had a plan and saw vision where mine was lacking.  And so we got to work.

One kitchen remodel,

Two bathroom remodels,

{How do I not have a picture of the master bathroom before?  It was old & dirty and had BLACK wallpaper.}

Todd would come home and paint on his lunch breaks.

One re-landscaping job, 

And a dozen gallons of paint later, it feels infinitely more homey than it did four years ago.

We have shared so many special memories in this house.

Todd asked me to be his wife in the living room.

All of our Christmases as a married couple have been here.

We have celebrated three and a half years of marriage here.  

I learned how to bake apple pies in this kitchen.

Todd learned how to take care of a yard.

We've had our biggest arguments here.  We've had powerful moments of reconciliation.

We found out that we were pregnant here.  I was incredibly sick with bronchitis and Todd was sleeping in the guest room so that he wouldn't get sick.  

This is the house that we brought sweet Cooper home to when we came home from the hospital.

And its the only house that he's known.  All of his milestones have happened here- first baths, first smiles, first words, crawling, walking...

We have been SO blessed by this house, by our neighbors, by the ways that the Lord has visited us here.  Although I know that it could be months and months and months before we get a buyer, it does feel strange to think that this chapter could be coming to a close.  Still, we are so excited for the things that lay before us, in terms of housing.  Maybe I will take Cooper's "First Day of Kindergarten" picture on the front porch of the next house that we move into!  That's exciting to think about!

So... if you know anyone who is looking to buy a great house that has been filled with a lot of love (that's so corny, I know...), send them our way!  We are on the market!