I was considering that in light of the fact that we are still living my parents and have an offer on one house for 3 weeks, I would share some of our more...memorable experiences with all of my faithful blog readers.
Our top 5 worst homes:
1. The home with the Taliban caves littering the basement... seriously, this basement had more nooks and crannies than we knew possible. I think at some point we walked underneath the neighbors home. Less than $85,000
2. The house with the rat feces all over the basement floor and the "conservatory" off the back of the basement. Perhaps the rats entered the basement through some sort of hole in the conservatory. $99,000
3. The home in Old Colorado City that you needed several clean breaths of air in order to view... seriously, who allows the cats just urinate everywhere and never clean it up. $119,000
4. Our first love... from the outside at least. Beautiful 2 story Victorian that was a feral cat den and where upon walking into the kitchen, it was also possible to view the basement. $62,000
5. Townhome with ceiling from upstairs on the floor, all carpet gone and a sneaking suspicion of mold.
We hope that you enjoyed your tour of the worst homes in Colorado Springs, visit us again for the house that we actually buy (trust us, much better than all of these)
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Hope for Africa
Plans for our trip to Africa in June are falling into place and I can completely see that this is where God intended for us to be in June. We have numerous fundraisers coming up for local folks and if you want more information on those just let me know.
For those of you who do not know, part of the reason that Ben and I fell in love is because we realized that God had placed the continent of Africa on each of our hearts before we had even met. What a gift it would be for us to take this trip together. Please visit our trip blog here to find out more info about where we are going and what we are doing. I will continue to post here about what God is doing in our hearts and where we know he means for us to be.
For those of you who do not know, part of the reason that Ben and I fell in love is because we realized that God had placed the continent of Africa on each of our hearts before we had even met. What a gift it would be for us to take this trip together. Please visit our trip blog here to find out more info about where we are going and what we are doing. I will continue to post here about what God is doing in our hearts and where we know he means for us to be.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Moving
We moved today, into my parents house.
We are living here in the interim while we keep looking for a house and saving some money. I realized as we carried everything down 3 flights of stairs today, that in nearly 2 years of marriage we have accumulated a lot of stuff. Not necessarily junk or stuff we don't use but just stuff.
How much of our lives are consumed by junk? This short time in my old bedroom will certainly teach us to be thankful for space but also for the things that we need and do not need in our lives.
Our realtor mentioned that we should go as high as we are approved to go with the lender in our price range (we are looking about $80k below our approval) but why? Why do we need as $200k home when really our lives are not the house we live in, or the things that we own but the life that we lead and the love that we give. The offer we have out now is for a 1008 sq. ft. house (our apartment was 775) and I am excited, not because we will have so much more room but because we will have a place to call our own. We will have a place where I can paint the walls weird colors and have my children in the bedroom. We will have a place to love each other, grow a family, and work for our future. The dream is that after this house we will live in Africa. This is our first house and perhaps our only house.
I am excited to create memories in a place where other families have done the same. I am excited to make something our own and accept and love its imperfections. I am excited to make a stance against the materialism of America by not buying the dream house but buying a characteristic house, a house that we can call our own.
We are living here in the interim while we keep looking for a house and saving some money. I realized as we carried everything down 3 flights of stairs today, that in nearly 2 years of marriage we have accumulated a lot of stuff. Not necessarily junk or stuff we don't use but just stuff.
How much of our lives are consumed by junk? This short time in my old bedroom will certainly teach us to be thankful for space but also for the things that we need and do not need in our lives.
Our realtor mentioned that we should go as high as we are approved to go with the lender in our price range (we are looking about $80k below our approval) but why? Why do we need as $200k home when really our lives are not the house we live in, or the things that we own but the life that we lead and the love that we give. The offer we have out now is for a 1008 sq. ft. house (our apartment was 775) and I am excited, not because we will have so much more room but because we will have a place to call our own. We will have a place where I can paint the walls weird colors and have my children in the bedroom. We will have a place to love each other, grow a family, and work for our future. The dream is that after this house we will live in Africa. This is our first house and perhaps our only house.
I am excited to create memories in a place where other families have done the same. I am excited to make something our own and accept and love its imperfections. I am excited to make a stance against the materialism of America by not buying the dream house but buying a characteristic house, a house that we can call our own.
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