The House...

Househunting in Dayton was a totally alien experience compared to house hunting in San Antonio. The markets are just SOOOO different!

However, we survived and we are getting ready to close on a house! Yay! For those of you who were enough in the loop to hear about the historic, but didn't get the memo that we are going for a different one, uh, sorry! I've been really bad about getting information out this time!

So, without further adieu and in apparently completely random order (sorry)...

Side yard

Around the other side

Small deck off our bedroom

Maybe the part we are all three most excited about (I'm not even all the way to our fence line when I took this picture; you can see Michael's red shirt down on the grass). Awesome trees and totally fenced. The treehouse/fort ideas are flying around here every evening. :)

Again, random order - one of the four bedrooms

Laundry upstairs

Study for Michael off the master bedroom

Additional woodburning fireplace in basement

Half bath off kitchen

Coat closet

A two car garage that will actually fit two cars and still leave room for you to get out of them - bye bye San Antonio.

Totally psyched about a double oven! :) Michael had already said that we could put one in whatever house we ended up with, but this one had one installed new this year! Yay!

The blue countertops were replaced last week with this:

Wood burning fireplace

And for some perspective:
Entry, living room (will probably be a reading room for us) to the left (the dining room sits behind that with doors to both the living room and kitchen), hall to the kitchen you can see in the back, stairs up, door to the garage to the right (which you can see in the picture above) and also to the right is the family room with the tile floors and fireplace.