We didn't come by this house without much grief and anguish, in fact, we came to this house by pure grace! After a GRUELING time dealing with builders, moving, sickness...and house!
We first started having the desire and push to move to Houston in 2008 so Kenny set out to find a job in the around February. He found one quickly...REALLY quickly - and although we questioned the timing, we figured that it was perfect timing for us.
In short - we were wrong!
Amazing things happened during this time, 2 hurricanes, an illness, and MANY lonely nights later Kenny moved back to Alexandria 9 months after moving to Houston to pursue a career there!
This was one of our homes...
It was custom built for us....WAY out of our price range...but SO cute and right where we wanted it! It was in our S-T-R-E-T-C-H budget - but we could make it work! So we signed the contract in April....2 weeks later (supposedly) groundbreaking was to occur....but late August we were told that the company was going out of business and our home was no longer ours......BUMMED, MAD, UPSET...many emotions flooded this time in our life! At the time I was still living in Louisiana and Kenny was in Houston...only he was sick and having to take treatments...which made it HARD on everything else. This was devastating...so the realtor found us another house and we looked at it the same day....
But we just didn't feel right about the entire plan....why should be pay more for less...and we shouldn't be pushed into something that wasn't us.
So we moved back to Louisiana, not that our whole family had moved...but it was still a process!
Finally, last summer we decided to move again. It was going to be the final time we tried and we couldn't look back - so we didn't take ANY chances....we rented a cute little place on Melham Lane! Since that point we have grown so much, we have worked harder than EVER, and now we're finally starting to see something from our hard work! But we wouldn't change what has happened, because it's only made us realize that we can ONLY count on what we do and NOTHING is handed to you. Not that we thought it was, it just seems that sometimes you find yourself in a place where things DON'T happen as quickly and you thought and you realize that it's LIFE. So, finally after a YEAR of renting we purchased our first home! Although you have probably heard about it....you haven't seen the ACTUAL house! So here is the front shot....
Every day this week I will be posting different rooms in our house, what we've done to the room & what it looks like now! I hope you'll follow our house tour, we can't wait to share it with you!
The Schedule:
Sunday - Different posting (not house related)
Monday - Kitchen
Tuesday - Living Room/Dining Room
Wednesday - Office
Thursday - Bathrooms
Friday - Master Bedroom
Saturday - His & Hers Rooms
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