Musical Houses

My wife Jacinda and I are about to buy our first home! In fact, we drew up the contract this evening and are elated. What's even cooler is that we are purchasing our home from her parents! You may ask, "how is that cool?" This is how:

1. Jacinda has the coolest parents. Her parents are as loving, honest, and understanding as possible.
2. We know that we can trust the buyer in the contract.
3. We have already moved half of our belongings over.
4. Jacinda's dad is an Ag professor and both yards look immaculate!

Here's the funny situation. When Jacinda and I moved to Abilene in May 2007, Jacinda's parents sold their house of 22+ years in Snyder, Texas and bought property about 10-15 miles outside of Abilene with the intention of building on the land. In the meantime, they began to rent a property and wound up purchasing the home she and I wanted (kind of to hold it for us for until we could afford it!) last summer. Obviously, as Jacinda and I got closer and closer to buying the house Jim and Deborah were beginning to feel obligated to go somewhere. Without having decided whether they are going to build on the land outside of Abilene and - being the kind and considerate people they are - they began looking at other options for the time being, while they begin to build, decide to buy somewhere else, etc.

While I was in Chicago for a conference, I got a voice message from Jacinda at 7:35 pm saying that her parents were going to look at a house. I received another voice message from Jacinda around 9:00 pm declaring that her parents were on their way to draw up the contract on the house! The best part: the house is only three doors down from the house we are buying from them!! So as Jacinda and I are moving all of our belongings into our new house (my in-laws old house) at the end of this week, we will begin painting her parents' house on Saturday. Then as the house begins to be painted, we can forget all about trucks and simply carry everything down the street!

I am thoroughly excited about our first home and cannot wait for the hilarious adventures that are sure to come in the days and weeks to follow! Pictures of the new house are coming soon!