Who's Buying a House? US!!!!

We found a beautiful, awesome, amazing home. And we are buying it! YAY!!!!!! Our trip to Columbus was fantastic. We saw some AMAZING homes. Truly, it was an embarrassment of riches. To be able to choose from that many great properties was a blessing. But when we walked into this home, the last one we saw, we knew it was the place we wanted to be. We decided to go ahead and live in the village of Granville where Denison University is located. The whole place is out of a storybook. Treelined streets, a beautiful little downtown, farmers market, bike and running paths, parks, hills, just amazing.

More photos to come of the area, but first - here is our house!!!!!

So much to do...

Here's the short of it - tomorrow we are going to Columbus. It's house hunting madness, neighborhood wandering, sightseeing, and on Monday morning - it's interviewing. It will be one crazy weekend. A full update will be provided once we get back.

In the meantime, something cool! A friend of ours, King, is an up and coming artist. We had always wanted to buy one of King's paintings, but not being in the "art market", we didn't really have that kind of budget. But thankfully for us, King was selling off a few pieces, and we were actually able to afford one.

This piece will hang in our home in Ohio!

"Baltimore Blues" by King Kenney

The blurry photo is from Francesca's in Durham. I didn't want to creep the ladies out by taking photos of them. But this is our painting. We already have it at home now, but we are waiting to put it on the wall of our new home!

Oh, the rollercoaster of life...

Yin and yang. Everything has to balance out, right? We have had a lot of wonderful, cool and awesome things happen in the past couple of weeks. Mike succesfully completed and defended his dissertation. I had an amazing birthday. I found out I won dinner for two at Il Palio through a drawing at the Farmers Market. I also found out I got a third round final interview with the cool company in Columbus I mentioned a few posts back. We're headed to Columbus next weekend to do a marathon round of house hunting over the weekend, then I have my interview Monday morning. Everything was coming up roses.

Then we got the call. Mike's mom's breast cancer is back. We went from the top of the mountain down into the lowest reaches of the valley. We are still getting information on what the treatment will be. We will all work together and do everything we can. But, wow, that was a bit unexpected.

Damn - life sure is interesting, isn't it?