Bye Bye House..

So we still have not closed on our (old) house. Technicalities with the buyer's lender.. yada, yada, yada.. taking a little longer than expected but we'll supposedly close soon.. yada, yada. The really cool thing about this whole situation is that we busted our butts to get out of our house in time for the scheduled closing date, and have now been in my mom's house going on three weeks that we could have still been living in and/or taking time to pack up our house (which.. ahem.. we just made another mortgage payment on even though we are NOT IN IT). Anyhoo, I digress..

We moved in to this 1575 sq. ft. house less than a year after we were married, in February of 2004. We were so excited! About a month after we moved in, we brought home our first baby, our dog Mattie. Three years later, we brought Nate and Lilly home here. I will miss it, but due to my incessant picture taking, luckily I will never forget it.

Bye Bye living room!!

We did a lot of living in this room..

In our living room a month after the babies were born..

We watched the Vikings on Sunday afternoons in the fall..

We played in the floor on Friday nights..

And Saturday mornings..

We tried our very first "food" in this living room..

We had the babies' first Christmas in this living room.
Bye Bye Kitchen!

There wasn't a lot of cooking done in here, but..

This is where we gave Nate and Lilly their first baths..

Bye Bye Babies' Room!

I used to stare at this room when it was our office/catch all/Vikings memorabilia/ extra room and pray that one day it would have a crib in it.

And then we had two!

Where they learned to pull up and stand..

.. And had fun playing in the floor!

We had our first swimming pool fun in this back yard!

Bye Bye to our first home. Although we lived here four years without kids, it became so much more of a home when our babies joined us, and those are the memories that mean the most to me and that I will always hold dear. There were many milestones here that will never be forgotten. This house was filled with craziness and love, just asI know our next home will be.

"Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule." ~Frederick W. Robertson