Big news!

Yep, our first home is officially on the market.

Austin, here we come.

We have both loved the town of Austin, especially David. He has not only mentioned how much he would love to live there one day, but he is a big UT sports fan too. When my parents moved there last fall, I recall David jumping up and down and fist pumping over the new potential chance that we, too, could consider moving there. It just made sense.

After my parents left, we still put off the idea for a while for a few reasons. 1) We had to stay in our home 3 years, which put us through April of this year, in order to keep our pricey tax refund that we received when we bought the home. 2) David was committed to a baseball team through July. 3) Our home is here with us both growing up here so there is quite a bit of attachment there. My inlaws are there, and I know that is an adjustment being 4 hours away from their grandson instead of 30 min. (But Cindy, 4 hours still isn't tooooo bad! :) )

Well, we started thinking more and more seriously about it all last month, and two things really got the ball rollin. The first was that our realtor highly suggested that we put the house on the market in the summer (as opposed to waiting for the fall like we maybe thought), since that is the best time for buyers due to school starting in August. Secondly, I mentioned to my boss that we were thinking of moving there sometime in the next handful of months. Coincidentally, the PT position for south Austin opened up 3 days later.

Needless to say, we have taken that as an omen and are running with it. We are looking forward to a new chapter!