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Home Sweet Home

Praise the Lord! Today we received our keys to our new house...Well, technically we don't own the house. We probably won't even own a house until we are way older. We are renting a new house, and the lease ends in 3 years so it will be our home for a while!

The way we even got chosen to be the tenants of this home was God's blessing upon us as well. We had someone really help us out and he was very beneficial on our behalf. I'm so excited to move into this new place because it will be our first "home home." We are already blessed to be living in the house that we live in (it belongs to Kev's parents) because this house is super huge and beautiful. But it never really felt like our home. We came into the house and everything was already decorated. We weren't living by ourselves as a married couple. Kevin grew up in this house as a teenager. This is the same house I'd visit Kev in as a 15 year-old. We used to dance on the streets as teenagers and ride bikes at the country club across the street.

Now it's time for a new beginning! This house that we're moving into is 5 minutes away from my mom's house and close to the divinity school Kevin wants to go to for his graduate degree.  We really could not choose a better house and location! We are excited to decorate the house and to fix up the backyard. I personally can't wait to put up pictures of our baby girl when she's finally born in 3-4 months! Time really flies. The timing of our move is also very convenient because I just stopped working at the preschool and while my tummy is big, it's not too big where moving would be a huge problem.

What a beautiful season of life! Pregnancy and a new house..Oh, this baby is going to have some really wonderful memories in this new home!
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