I am so excited to say that Hal and I put a contract in on a home at The Farm at Carolina Forest and they have ACCEPTED OUR OFFER!!!  AAAHHH!  I am so excited just writing this.  The Lord’s hand has certainly been at work in this process and we are thrilled at how everything has turned out.

So the home is new construction with a completion date of October 31, 2008…which means it might carry over to mid-November depending on the weather.  The home is a DR Horton built home, and in the Myrtle Beach area, they are great builders! This is the Eaton model, our home will be different.  The entry way will still have that brick on the front, however the rest of the house is going to have vinyl siding in Victorian Silver which I assume is a gray.  Our door and shutters will be Bordeaux, so a rich red.  It’s going to be beautiful!  Here is the best part…we get to design our house.  We get to pick our flooring, countertops, style of cabinets, ceiling fans, lighting, where our cable/phone/outlets are going to be, etc.

The house is 1634 square feet. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a huge open floor plan, and a finished 2-car garage.  The kitchen will have maple cabinets with the crown at the top (how pretty), stainless appliances, a pantry closet (I’m so excited), tons of cabinets and space and it’s huge!  The living room has high vaulted ceilings with ceiling fans and great lighting, a fire place, crown molding.  The master bedroom has tray ceilings, with a ceiling fan, huge walk-in-closet, huge bathroom, and linen closet.  The other bedrooms are large rooms with ceiling fans and nice closets (all doors not those awful sliding ones).  The front foyer has a tray ceiling and is huge!  We will also have a 8×16, 10″ high screened in porch with ceiling fans, as well as a 8×16 patio slab as well.  This house is simply awesome!  As long as our financing and everything comes through we are set!!!

Here is the floorplan of the Eaton.

Virtual Tour of Model Home, this is a virtual tour of a model Eaton to give you an idea of what our house will look like on the inside!  Prepare to be blown away!

Our community, here is where you can see the amenities.

We are so blessed by this house, and this neighborhood.  It is a very family-friendly neighborhood with walking paths, bike paths, sidewalks, a 8,000 square foot pool (yes, I know!!!), a fitness center, a playground and kiddie pool for the kids.  I could go on and on. This house is literally what we thought we could afford as a second house, but the Lord has worked things out so that we can be there now and we are so thankful.

Please continue to pray with us that this process would go smoothly, that Hal and I would be patient to wait until the house is complete for our closing date.  This feels like such a long wait already, and we are so ready to be in our own home.  Thank you to those of you who have been praying already for this, please continue to do so.

Miss you and love you.