The big move...

Well it was bitter sweet that is for sure, Bradshaw and I were ready for a long while to get a  house with more storage , a backyard with access, a garage , and more space .. we were sad though that we had to leave our beautiful new Kitchen that we JUST refinished .. and it really did feel just like yesterday that we made our first purchase on our little green house that we loved .. Its hard to believe that Hayden was just a tiny baby when we moved there , that we moved into a home with a green stove and yellow fridge .. We painted ALOT .. added a bst suite , pulled out bushes and planted flowers beds, I think of all the things we did as a family , we built the deck one summer , added the raised flower beds to build our first garden.. the hours we played in our tiny yard , or the many walks down to the park as a family.  I remember painting Abbigiales room before we new what she was going to be bright green .. I hated it from the second it was on . I don't know what i was thinking .. Im surprised she slept so good in that room to be honest it was so bright !  we moved more things around in that house trying to make thing work , Haydens little bedroom , a up stairs tv/ toy room , then we moved him to the big room and made the tiny 3rd room upstairs a toy / craft room , then just a toy tv room , then a guest room with a closet craft room. Then Grayson came along and the tiny 3rd room was his room and then we moved then together to sleep in the big room and back to the 3rd room a toy room .. then we bought bunks and they slept in them in the big room , then Abbi came along with the 3rd room being a nursery again , and down we moved the boys to the basement with the bunk beds and the 3rd upper room back to a spare room... why I have NO idea .. im guessing for all the time Michaela slept at our house .. we also put a tv in there .. The only single room that stayed the same in that house as our room .. though it was painted and moved around at least 20 times .. haha  We were always trying to figure out something that would work for us .. but what it came down to was it was our home and we loved it , the kids loved it, and I was so sad to say good bye ...well particle  good bye we still see it monthly when we go collect our rent from out renters.. but it does not feel like the same house anymore. Its hard to even really remember there was a time we lived there to be honest cause i feel like we have lived at our new house forever ...  When we started looking for a new house in Jan , there was not much on the market and by this time we new what we really wanted .. we did not LOVE our house we bought but something about us kept coming back , we came back and looked at it 6 times before we decided we really did like it .. we were so sad to leave the ward we had lived in the past 4 almost 5 years. It was a awesome ward with some great people , my kids had Great teacher and we loved our callings. But we soon fell in love with our new ward also as we got to know the people. The kids were so excited to move into a bigger new house. We did lots of Drive bys to check it out , in the months that we waited to take possession... we moved in March 1 2013 ..and its hard to believe we have been here almost 1 year already... These were the photos that sold us when it came on the market and i dont know how mnay times we looked at these pictures on mls before we decided to go see in person ....