We have a house!!

Ok, so it's not ours yet officially, but still..very close! Everyone probably knows now that we WERE moving to the Baton Rouge area for Darryl's air traffic control job, and that it got changed to Jackson, MS a couple of weeks ago. (Long story short, he had the job there but wasn't going to be able to start working there until January or later because they overhired. Darryl asked if there was anything else available soon and lo & behold Jackson was, so we took it.) So anyway, we started frantically looking for houses online and narrowing them down. We found a great realtor in Jackson who has been such an amazing help. Anyway, Friday morning we headed over to Jackson which is about a 2.5 hour drive from here and looked at all the surrounding areas. We had never been there so all of the little cities around it were new to us. Anyway we looked for hours that day and couldn't find anything in our price range that we loved. Most of the time the issue we were having was that we just couldn't find a big enough living area or backyard. We were searching for 4 bedroom homes and just coming up short. So that night we decided to look at 3 bedrooms and found a few, wrote them down, hoping to find something in the morning. We stayed with an AWESOME friend of mine, Melinda and her family, and had a great time. (Even though my monsters spilled popcorn everywhere! LOL) So the next morning we head out and end up looking at 3 houses. The first one was just too tiny, so we go on to the 2nd one. On the outside it just looked like an ordinary home, but when we walked in we fell in love. Especially when we saw the backyard! It's nice and big for the boys to run around in and comes with a shed AND a wooden swingset!! Score! It's amazing and we loved the couple that lives there. They were so nice to us and the boys. We went to another house, but just had to go back to the 2nd because we wanted to take pictures, which in turn is a whole other story because my camera battery died the night before so we had to get a crappy disposable one and then the flash wasn't working. It was a total mess!! But nonetheless, we decided we loved it, went to the real estate agent's office and started working on our offer! It was so exciting, and the boys did so well sitting there for hours looking at all those houses and while we were working on all tha paperwork. Of course McDonalds and a portable DVD player helped with that. ;) Anyway, we didn't hear anything until almost 24 hours later, but we got the house! There was a counter offer involved, but it hardly changed anything and we are just so excited. We are actually living in the city of Brandon, MS, SO close to tons of shopping and I just love it! We close on my dad's birthday, August 31, and it will be an amazing feeling to purchase our first home! God is good to work all of these details out and we are so stoked!