Exciting things happening!

Soooo... Ryan and I have been looking at houses. We really want and need a 4 bedroom house. We are starting to talk about Baby #2 in the near future and don't feel like this house fits us. It is 2700 square feet, 3 bedroom, 2.5 baths. The playroom is upstairs which I love but the bedrooms are all around the playroom. So it will be next to impossible for baby 2 to be sleeping with Raegan playing and making a ton of noise.

We decided we want to stay in our neighborhood. We love this neighborhood. Love the people. Love the parks, walking trails, pool and playground. We love the schools. Love the location. Love everything. We got with our realator Deanna who also lives in the neighborhood and she showed us a house for sale that we have loved since the day we moved in here.


It has been on the market for a couple of months now. We aren't wanting to move until Fall but we went and looked at this house anyways. Ryan loved it. I liked it. It has BEAUTIFUL curb appeal and a great kitchen and master suite. The rest of the house isn't as functional as I would like with kids. Ryan is crazy about toys downstairs. The toys that are downstairs have to be put away when he walks in the door or he gets instantly grumpy. Thats why the playroom is upstairs in the loft. This house just down the street from us which is great since we love our street! It had a loft upstairs but much smaller one than what we have now. We decided not to make an offer on it. Deanna tooks us to another house on another street with a basement but the rest of the house was a definite no! We got to talking and decided to go to the Centex model home and talk to a new home consultant about building a new house here in the neighborhood! Eeks!

We met with Lauren the new homes consultant the next day. We walked through 2 models and instantly fell in love with the first one. And the model home name is Carson, which was a top contender of boys names! We need a fourth bedroom with bonus room so our house would be bigger than the model and a little different curb appeal. The Carson is a little over 2900 square feet but has a formal office, formal dining room, super open amazing kitchen, great room, and half bath downstairs, and then 3 bedrooms a bonus room, bathroom, laundry and master suite upstairs. The garage is 2 car with a tandem!




That is what the model home looks like. Our house will have two windows over the garage where the "in-law" suite would be aka bedroom #4.

We've had a lot of fun going through the list of optional upgrades and picking out everything, EVERYTHING! From the lot we want to build on, the counters, cabinets, carpet, hardwood,trey ceilings, french doors on Ryan's office, fireplace, everything for the bathrooms, lights, everything we want in our house!

We go back in 2 weeks to meet with Lauren again and "build" our house to see where we are on the final price! And see if there is anything else we want to add or remove from the upgrades we have been deciding on.


Picking out upgraded cabinets!



Picking out upgraded countertops. Either Corian or Granite!


Looking at exterior siding and brick options!



Carpet, hardwoods, and marble bath upgrade options




Upgraded fireplace options



A picture of another Carson home in our neighborhood with the in law suite over the garage! Beautiful! Love the house, love the porch, love everything!



Building makes perfect sense for us! We know exactly what we want and we agree on everything. We have almost all the same likes and dislikes when it comes to a house. The new section of homes are in "pre-sale" right now. The roads aren't in yet so Centex is waiting for the roads to be finished before they can start the construction of the new home. Lauren said it will be late summer when construction will start which is perfect for the timeline we want!