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Our week of excitement continued with news the night before Thanksgiving of something more to be thankful for.  We submitted and had our offer accepted on a 3-bedroom starter house in a great old neighborhood in New Lenox, IL.  It’s in a fantastic school district and has a great library and park district with tons of programs for all ages.  We’re two blocks from the church we’ll attend and three blocks from the Old Plank Road Trail, a 20 mile biking, walking and running trail.  

We talked for a long time about what we wanted in a home and our highest priorities included good schools and outdoor playspace.  We chose a house accordingly, deciding in the end (after looking at many, many houses) to trade a bit of indoor space for an excellent school system and a great yard- a trade truly worth making.  It’s a simple little house with three bedrooms, a good kitchen, a combined family room/ dining room, a laundry room, a cute bathroom, an attached garage and a fenced-in backyard.  The house has been updated with a new roof, new furnace, new appliances, new carpet and wood laminate floors.  We have an attached garage which has good storage space and is great for shuffling kids into the car in the winter, and a great yard with lots of trees (as you can see from the photos).  Fortunately I have two sons (and a daughter) to help rake all the leaves from the seven maple trees!  Most importantly, it has a short driveway – helpful as I learn to shovel snow for the first time.  

We had the home inspection yesterday and all went well with everything checking out.  Everything is on track for us to close on the house in the middle of December and we should be moved in with plenty of time to spend Christmas in our new home.  We have lots of pictures up here if you’re curious and below is a video tour I took when we were there for the home inspection.  I’ll send our address and phone number once we’ve moved in (don’t want to get too ahead of ourselves).

Note:  The photos above are panoramas that I put together from a composite of 5-10 photos for each picture.  It was a fun little project and a good way to really give a sense of the house which is sometimes hard in smaller photos.  As always full size images are available over at the photo galleries.