The Hunt

After a nice, relaxing, wonderful cruise, we hit life full speed as we headed to AZ to begin looking for our new home. We got to Thatcher at about 5:30am and took the day to wash clothes, rest, research more, etc. and then went to Tucson early Tuesday morning. Our Realtors tried to warn us that there wasn't a lot available in our price range, but we had high hopes and were ready to find our house of dreams. We had the kids with us the first day and they were fantastic. It was funny seeing what was "important" in their little lives. One yard had a basketball hoop, another house had stairs, one yard had a rock pile. Carter was sold by a mailbox one minute and a chimney for Santa the next. Isaac diligently kept a notebook itemizing what he liked best about each house. Unfortunately, our "dreams" were not exactly coming true. We spent a couple of disappointing days looking at one house after another. We'd find one that we liked and then our realtor would call and it would be sold. Commute, size, price, school districts, weren't even close to matching up. We finally put an offer in on a house in West Tucson. We're actually pretty excited about it and hope that it works out. It's a short sale, so we won't know if our offer is accepted for 2-6 weeks - being optimistic. We feel like we did all that we could do and so now we just wait. We keep looking up listings, but nothing better has presented itself. It is only a 10 min drive to work for Eric and the schools are decent (not what I had hoped, but will do). We love the neighborhood. It's up on a hill and has gorgeous views of the mountains all around us. It's severely lacking in back yard space which is a big bummer and it is also severely lacking in appliances, light fixtures, thermostats, kitchen faucets, etc. The boys haven't seen it yet, but I think they will love it and I think that we'll be really happy there. I'd post pictures, but our camera decided to quit somewhere between Texas and Arizona. The mls # is 20901732 if anyone feels like looking it up. Exciting times!