Home Sweet Jacksonville!

Well it's officially green around here.  And yellow... aaaah... ahhh... aaahhh-CHOO!!!!  whew.  excuse me.  And while we've got the lovely (and not so lovely if you include the pollen...) parts of spring blooming all around us, it seems that winter invited the wrong successor to come take it's place.  And believe it or not, the I am welcoming warm summer temperatures.  I like to think of it as practice for what's to come.

Speaking of which, Aaron and I made our way to Jacksonville this week to "house hunt" (aka find a suitable home to rent).  And wouldn't ya know we found the PERFECT house!  We were getting a little nervous when our favorite homes on our anal-retentive excel spreadsheet were dropping like flies the week before our weekend trip.  Fortunately, one of our favorite houses remained and its all ours come May 19th.  Which - may I say - is 23 days away.  One score and three days.  Holy macaroni.

Here are a few pics of our new place.  Disclaimer: I didn't take them.  I yanked them from the website of the listing because I felt bad taking pictures of the interior of someone's home while they were still living there.  Also, be warned...it's quite colorful...and we LOVE it.  We literally said, "Where do we sign?" after being in the house for a grand total of 90 seconds.  Don't worry, mom, we looked around some more before actually signing.

It's a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom single family house with a 2 car garage and a deck and a fenced in backyard and an extra sunroom-type space for...we don't exactly know yet.  Check it out!  Can you tell we're excited?  (warning: please forgive the awkward spacing and the order of the pics...)

Outside, from the side.  Only picture I took myself.

Living room. (Currently used as a "sitting" room.)

I. Love. This. Kitchen.

Dining room.  Orange like my old Tallahassee townhouse dining room!

Guest bedroom. 

Master bath.

The room that will likely serve as Aaron's office.

The master bedroom.  I think they just liked these colors.    That or someone in their family  came down with a severe case of liking the Gators.  Needless to say, we won't be borrowing their bedroom decor.

The extra room that they currently use as the living room.

I cannot wait to cook in here!

Finding a great place like this certainly helps in making the move something to look forward to.  I'm starting to get a little sad to leave DC/NoVa, but this weekend confirmed that we are making the right choice, and got us really excited about heading back to the homeland ;)  where sunshine, Publix, Sonny's and Pollo Tropical are right around the corner.

Oh, and, did I mention that this was our 2nd appointment on the first day we had reserved for house-hunting?  We didn't have any problems filling our extra time...

Jax Beach! 10 minutes from our new digs.

And of course we were reminded of the other bonuses: FAMILY!  Because we got to see AJ, Lianne +1, and Julie in Orlando before flying back to DC.

The girls on the Wilson side...all 3 of them :) :) :)

That's all folks.  Thanks for getting excited with us about the move, even if you're on the Virginia side of the equation...we're so thankful for our wonderful friends and family!

Much love XOXOXO