The Kenner Family: February 2010

We had a baby it's a...HOUSE!

What a long journey buying a house has been!! Last November we took the first step and met with a mortgage loan officer and were approved to buy a home! Then we called up my mom's friend Craig Binks and he set us up with is AMAZING son Austin Binks, who became our realator. (I hope you are reading this Austin) We let him know we didn't want to start looking seriously until after Christmas, but to keep his eye open for anything special that might come about. January. Austin sent us a list of homes in our price range and...I pretty much hated all of them, we were beginning to become discouraged and thought maybe this whole, "buying a house thing" wasn't for us. THEN, a few weeks later we became more serious about the whole ordeal and started going to look at houses in person. We had a list of about 10 or so that we wanted to see, but about half of them were short sales, or already in contract. :( that narrowed us down to 5, we looked at four of them and the 4th one we looked at we just KNEW it was OUR house. HAHA I laugh because it was probably the house in the worst shape out of them all. I could see the potential though, and was sooo excited to see where everything went from there. We negotiated, came to an agreement on the offer, and the owner accepted! (The owner happens to be the BINKS family, they own about a hundred homes in the valley and fix them up and sale them, they are awesome I HIGHLY recommend them to anybody and everybody.) We wanted new windows and a new sliding glass door, and about a dozen other improvements, so the detailing began in early February. Wess Binks, one of Craig's other sons was incharge of all the improvement and labor. There was a ton of good workers who have helped make the house our HOME and it looks AWESOME! Thanks Wess! Now...all the documents are into the underwriter and closing is now set for the 24th!!! I can NOT WAIT!!! I go over there like twice a day just to look at the house and imagine where I will put all of our furniture. This is so exciting for us and we feel soooooo-blessed! Maddie will have a BIG fully fenced back yard to romp around in, I will have my own craft room, and large spacey kithchen to cook in, and Chris will have a huge family room to have friends over in, and a man room that doesn't have a day bed stuck in the center of the room! Our house is a Rambler with 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room, family room, kitchen, Finished Basement,and storage room with washer and dryer hook-ups. We are sooo lucky! Now here are the BEFORE and AFTER photos for your shock and enjoyment! Love, Brittany & Christopher Kenner :)

BEFORE