Who wants to go house hunting?

As promised, here's some pictures from todays house hunting adventure.  The only rule with this post is that you have to leave me a comment and give me your opinion.  Deal?  Click on each thumbnail to enlarge the pictures.

First up... Birch St.
  

  

  

Likes:  Very open, big windows, love the floorplan, huge backyard, basement is open and big
Dislikes:  White cabinets, No masterbath

Next... Oak Crest
  

  

  

Likes: Open floorplan, very clean & tidy, love the kitchen cabinets, all rooms are good size
Dislikes: No hardwood (linoleum in kitchen), no fenced back yard, basement is fairly small

Next... Cottage Creek Dr.
  

  

  

Likes: great curb appeal (love the style of house), open floorplan, huge backyard, downstairs is great, master bed/bath are huge!
Dislikes: "wear and tear" of house is obvious, landscaping needs lots of work, smaller bedrooms

Lastly... Meadowbrook
  

  

   

Likes: very open, new, beautiful (BIG) kitchen, big bedrooms, vaulted ceilings, big basement, 4 bed/3 full bath
Dislikes: no fenced backyard, not much landscaping

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So.. that's it!  Those are our top contenders, as of today anyways. ;)
What do you think?  Likes/dislikes?

Happy weekend!!

I love weekends.  Growing up I never used to like them because A.) Saturdays were work days, and at the Carmichael house, a work day was never fun... and B.) I liked school and being with friends, so being away for 2 days was pure torture.  (notice I said torture because anytime anything didn't go my way, of course I was tortured.) hehe. ;)

Now that I'm an adult I love weekends because A.) I get to work on my house and catch up on things I was too lazy to do during the week, B.) I get to spend QT with my husband, and C.) I'm away from work...well, sometimes.

It was MAX this weekend in Olathe, which only means one thing... lots of nazarenes running around.  It's always fun because I'm able to catch up with the Osky Naz youth group and see all the kids grown up.  Spaghetti supper last night at the Birch's was fabulous, and then somehow I was tricked in to spend the rest of the evening at Nazarene Night at Worlds of Fun.  I say I was tricked into it because it was 40 degrees out and rainy, so I obviously had no intentions of going.  However, all of my sisters friends bailed on her, so I went and we had a great time despite the hypothermia that took place in both of our bodies.  We spent the evening with Andy, Linz and Ashley and it seemed like we were laughing the entire night.  We had a great time!

Today Ty & I slept in, I kicked my own butt at the gym, and now we're off to go house hunting.  I will be back tonight with an update and hopefully some pictures!  Hope you're all having a fabulous weekend!

Confession.

• I wish it was still snowy and cold outside. I'm dreading the summer!


• A lot of people like Anthropologie... I don't.


• I didn't like the movie Juno.


• I had a handful of chili cheese fries as a "snack" yesterday.

I feel better now. :)

A few things that have made me smile.

1. Playing baseball with Mason
2. Mason in general :)
3. My hubby, he's amazing.
4. Tyler trying to teach Mason how to blow a bubble.
5. Landen in high heels and underwear. :)
6. Alivia Grace.  She's adorable!

House hunting nightmare, take 1.

I hope this is the one and only post I ever have to make about nightmares with house hunting, but I guess we wouldn't be normal if we didn't have at least one bad experience.

So today we went out (beautiful, perfect day by the way) with our realtor and had a task set before us... we had 17 houses to look at in one afternoon.  Holy Buckets!  We knew it was going to be a long rest of the day.  Instead of looking at 17 houses, we only looked at 9 houses, and here's why.

We came across a home that was perfect in every way.  The things that we didn't like about it were so minor that it wasn't even anything to blink over.  It had the most beautiful kitchen I have EVER seen in my entire life... perfect granite countertops, custom-made oak cabinets, and a huge bay window to look out while I would be cooking.  Also the floor plan was very open and spacious, and everything in the house was so high quality and new.  Not only that, but it had a 3 car garage, security system, and was decorated and painted so well that I would hardly make any changes.  Tyler even said while we were there "okay, where do I sign?"  We knew this was the house for us.  So, our realtor grabbed us by the hands and we prayed over the house.  We thanked the Lord for bringing us to this house, and prayed for the closing process to go smoothly.  This was only the 9th house we had seen, but we were done.  We headed back to Olathe to write up an offer, and we were on our merry way when I got the phone call.  It was my Dad, calling from Chad's house, as they had just looked up the house on the internet and had a reservation about it. 

The city just approved an interchange to be built in the next couple years... an interchange that will host 40 train tracks.  Not only did the city approve it, but it will be built within 1.5 miles of our home.  Can you even imagine?  They forsee anywhere from 2-5,000 trains going in and out of town PER DAY!  Complete nightmare.

Needless to say, we are continuing our house hunt effective tomorrow. 

The end.