House Hunting

Well Seth and I have begun the process of house hunting... well sort of. In the last month we've looked at several houses, but nothing to serious yet. The word has gotten out in the Mennonite curcuit that we have started looking for our first house and we keep getting emails and phone calls from area Mennonites who know someone who is selling their house. It is amazing. These people don't even need to advertise or go through a realator, they just make an announcement at church or in the Goshen College weekly newsletter and BOOM word spreads. We have found one house that we liked a lot, but someone else made an offer the day after we looked at it and we didn't feel ready to make an offer ourselves. It felt too rushed. This house was awesome though. It had a huge living room with a fireplace, and a basement room we could put a ping pong table in, and best of all a tree house with a zip cord that ran to the basketball hoop! I guess it wasn't meant to be though.
Some days I am really ready to have a house, and than other days I am completely content in our apartment. We don't have any responsibilities with renting and that is very nice. But we are also feeling ready for a little more room, especially with the new addition to our family...the elliptical machine! It is also nice to have Joel just down the stairs from us now, but there are times that I get so sick of having to hear the people living around us. Renting and owning both have their own perks. At this point we are just keeping our eyes open! Happy Friday.