Channeling Our Inner Iowans

Exhausted!

Our New Town and House

Here is the Shellsburg Welcome Sign

This is a building in the very small downtown area.

This is the pavilion downtown

The playground downtown

Our New House

This is the back of our house.

This is looking down one of the streets in our neighborhood.

If you look very closely you can see a bunch of teeny houses and pine trees. This is our neighborhood from one of the back roads. There are fields and a golf course surrounding it.

This is the Shellsburg Elevator.

This is what our area outside of downtown mostly looks like.

More House Stuff

So, a lot has happened in the past week. We accepted the offer we received and are closing on May 1st. I flew out to Waterloo on Tuesday night and Dave and I have been looking at houses for the bast 3 days. We put an offer on a house yesterday afternoon and it was accepted this morning. We are closing on the new house on May 4th. It's a little surreal how well things are working out. I totally believe things happen for a reason, so maybe this move was meant to be. I'm trying really hard not to resist, but it's not easy.

The new house is fantastic and we are really excited. It's a little bit further away from Dave's work than what we had planned and it is definitely country living, but we will be about 20 minutes away from a larger city (even larger than Waterloo and Cedar Falls put together) where we can do our shopping and eat at chain restaurants. The kids will go to a Lutheran school that has excellent test scores. The house is on a little over 1/2 an acre and on a cul-de-sac and backs up to a golf course, so there will be plenty of room to play. We are heading over there in a little while and then Dave is taking me to the airport, so I will post some pictures tomorrow.

Gabe likes the birdies!

Our realtor just called...

an offer is coming in either tonight or tomorrow morning.

Maddie Can Whistle!

This is from a while ago, but it's so cute I had to post it.