The Ballard Bunch

We found a house! On Saturday, Beau and I spent the day looking and stumbled upon this one with our realtor, Megan. We had scheduled time to go and look at it, but found out there were offers already being made (it was on the market since Friday afternoon). Even though we knew it was a long shot, we decided to go and take a look (everything else was coming up short of our expectations).

Tatum had a great time playing with the owner’s daughter that was just a few months older than her. We talked a little and got the grand tour of the house and said our thanks and goodbyes. Because final offers were being made that afternoon, we had to make a quick decision. We gave it a shot and put in our offer, not knowing what the other bids would be. Apparently we weren’t the highest offer, but the owner chose ours because of the good report our family had with theirs. It was nice to hear – we loved the house!

Anyway, it’s older but so perfect for our little family! We were so happy to find something this spacious and clean in our price range. Now we’re in the process of the funding and all the fun stuff (ugh!), but if all goes as planned we’ll be in November 1st! Wish us luck – it’s going to be a busy couple of weeks. I’ll be sure to update. Here are a few pictures from the online listing (keep in mind, we’ll be doing some painting, etc.)…

This is the front view of the house. Not much to describe – it pretty much says it all.


This is the living room (both pictures). It’s a great big room that also connects to the dining room, giving us lots of open space. Something we REALLY lack right now.


This is the dining room and kitchen. The biggest downfall for me with this house is the size and color of the kitchen. It’s actually bigger than it looks in this picture because off to the right is the fridge and pantry (cut off). Before we move in, we’ll be painting these rooms. Who thought this color was pretty? Scary.


Here is the master bedroom. Again, it’s nice and big, but needs a tiny bit of work (mainly, new window treatments!). Our new big bed and dresser will fit in this room so much better than they do in ours now.


This will be Tatum’s room.


And this will be Hayden’s room. We’ll need to paint her room as well (it’s blue right now), but no huge rush on that – we’ll do that after we move in.


There is a huge finished basement with a full bathroom, two more bedrooms, a large living room and an office area. Lots of room for the Ballards to grow into!

It's always hard to get a real feel for a house when other people's stuff is still in there. I'll post more pictures when we have ours moved in!