Why not add more to our plate!?

So quite a while back while Oren was away in Seattle, I was watching the show "House Hunters" and browsing the housing market on redfin.com for fun (which we would do on occasion just to see what was out there) and I came across my dream house!! Beautiful full front porch, PLENTY of space, AMAZING kitchen....well, everything about it was perfect! I sent the listing to Oren just for fun and said.... "my dream house.... maybe someday" :) He commented on how beautiful it was and we left it at that. Of course when Oren arrived home he said "ok let's go" and to my surprise we were off to go look at the new community in Poolesville, which we fell in love with... but none of the lots we wanted were available yet. None the less, it threw us into our on going house hunt. We were on again off again with the hunting process (boy does it get tiring!), trying to decide where our ideal area was we wanted to be. We fell in love with the Poolesville area. It is a small town country west coast feel.... it felt like a relaxing, friendly place to raise a family and come home to at the end of the day. The only draw back being that it is a little bit further commute for Oren. He tried it out a few times and realized it really isn't much further from where we are now and there is an alternate route that cuts out one of the worst freeways during traffic! So we kept our eyes on that area. To our surprise, right before our trip to St. John, 3 great lots opened up in the new community we had looked at previously. So we put a lot hold on one, mulled it over while we were away.... and made an offer when we returned. After much back and forth, changes to how we wanted the house....WE GOT IT!!! :D OUR DREAM HOUSE :D So in a few weeks they will break ground and start building our home where we will raise our family...very exciting times! The expected move-in date is April. So we will be busy busy busy getting our place on the market, over seeing the building process, having a baby, moving, Passover shortly after!! Phew!

Front of our lot taken from our new neighbors deck, the entire neighborhood is already so nice and welcoming! We met most everyone at a meet and greet put on by the builder right before our deal was made.

Back of our lot. The tree line is protected area, so there will be no building ever to take place behind us... Hello privacy! Another thing we love is the spacing between the homes, unlike most neighborhoods in the DC area, where the homes are on top of each other...they might as well be town homes!

If you want to check out the model, click below....
It is the "montgomery" model and will look most like the last home model picture shown in photos. Although we are not doing a side load garage and brick as the picture shows, we decided on a front load garage and a stone base. (Although the pictures show a TON of upgrades/additions we are not getting, if you click on the interactive floor plan you can get more of an idea of how it will really be) :)


 http://www.brightwellcrossing.com/modeldetail.php?mod=3

It will certainly be a nice change from our small condo we are already growing out of! We can hardly wait for all of the exciting changes to come :D