PA...our new home!

So, I just want to start out by saying this past week or so has been full of twists and turns. The three of us are healthy and doing well, but we have some friends and family that are going through some struggles recently. So, if you have a job, a home, your health, love and faith (or any combination of those things) consider yourself blessed, and take a moment to be thankful for them!

With that being said, we are feeling so blessed that we may have found our new home. Last weekend Chris and I took our first trip without Brady to go check out houses and different areas in Pennsylvania. B-Man stayed with my mom because we knew it would be a quick and hectic trip and hard to pull off with an 11 month old. We missed him like crazy, but it definitely made house hunting easier to be kid free. We spent most of our time in Lancaster County at the recommendation of several people who were from the area. Let's just say it is a totally different world from what we are used to. I think my exact text to Jill was, "Cornfields, and fireflies, and Amish, oh my!"

Taken from the car window. AMISH! I was freaking out. :)

For real. Buggy crossing.

A backyard of one of the houses we checked out. A wee bit too country for me, but pretty!

So, as you can see, Lancaster County has many "rural" areas, but it also has many small cities and townships throughout it with new construction and the all important malls and Targets. Whew! We ended up looking at some houses in a town called Lititz and absolutely fell in love with the area. It was the first time that we actually felt like we couldn't wait to move! The town had an adorable downtown, a beautiful park with springs that ran through it, a CHOCOLATE FACTORY!, a rec center, community pool, library, Target, mall within 20 minutes, minor league baseball team within 20 minutes, and a great little house that we could see ourselves living in.

Chris playing in the springs that run through the park. There were a lot of little kids wading in it at the end. So cute!

Us in the park, getting super excited about finding this town!!

Chocolate factory! Free tours and SAMPLES!

Home, sweet home! *Fingers Crossed!*

So in total we looked at 17 houses in two days. It was exhausting, but worth it! We put an offer on the house above in Lititz and it was accepted. Now we are just hoping all goes well with the inspection so we can close at the end of the month and move sometime in early/mid July.

In addition to finding a new home and exploring a new area, this quick trip was a fun grown-up get away for Chris and me. We stayed at this cute "Inn" where they had beautiful gardens, an old barn, a spa, putting green, and a great restaurant (with cheap wine!) Here's a few pics from our mini-"vaca".

Embracing the non-Florida grass. PA grass is SO soft!

Walking around the grounds of the inn...I wanted a pic of this barn star. They're everywhere up there!

Wish the lightning bugs showed up in this pic!

I realize I look ridiculous here, but check out the piggy bench! M.F.E.O.!