So last week I only ended up doing 4 days of Insanity. I didn't exercise on Friday or Saturday, but for a very good reason.

Friday morning Steve and I got the girls up at 4:30 and got in the car and drove to Spokane. We only went for 24 hours.

The reason for our trip? To sign papers on our HOUSE. That's right, OUR frickin' HOUSE!!! See, Steve and I decided a while ago that we wanted to move to Spokane to be closer to family. We're all alone here on our little (gray, wet, and dreary) peninsula since Steve's father died, and we're sick of it. We want our girls to grow up with a close relationship to their grandparents and cousins, etc, I want to be closer to my folks, and Steve wants to live in a town where his summer weekends won't be spent cleaning moss off the roof before fall comes and the moss starts growing again.

Our plan was to transition over there withing the next 3 to 5 years, after we finished our house in Kingston and found jobs in Spokane and whatnot. But our situation changed in various ways, and we found ourselves in a poisition to be able to buy a house now, even though we aren't ready to move just yet. So Mother's Day weekend we drove over to Spokane (for 24 hours) to look at a couple houses that we had found online and were interested in. The one we specifically wanted to see turned out to be a crap bag, but that's totally okay. Because it got us over there, and it led to us looking at our 2nd choice house which turned out to be PERFECT. Litereally... the moment we got out of the car and walked towards to front door we knew we'd found The One. The day after we got back from Spokane we put in an offer, after a little haggling we came to an agreement with the sellers and the house was on it's way to becoming ours. An inspection, an appraisal and a down payment later, I now have a key on my keyring that unlocks the front door of my dream house!!

Why yes, that would be my car in the driveway next to the SOLD sign.

The front of our new house.

Front side yard.

A peak into the GORGEOUS backyard.

View of the side. The top is our formal dining room and the bottom is the daylight basement window of the downstairs family room/play room.

Ahhh yeahhh...

This is our back yard.

This is also our back yard.

This is my kitchen with a hardwood floor and granite counter tops.

The formal living room.

The formal dining room.

The giant back deck.

Pretty sweet, yes?
Our plan at this point is to rent it out for a year. That will give us time to finish our house here in Kingston while the mortgage is being paid on our dream house. After a year we will move over there and start living the life that we want to live. Maron will turn 5 in August of next year, and I fully intend to enroll her in Kindergarden at Woodridge elementary (which is about a half mile from where we'll live). So get ready Spokane - Team Haag is coming your way!