i'll start walking your way, you start walking mine...

Before we started looking for a house we created a checklist of items we would ideally like in our home. Although we understood we would probably end up compromising on some things it gave us a good jumping off point and allowed us to really visualize what was important to each of us. So, how does our new house stack up against the checklist of our ideal home....

The  new house is so much more space than we could have even imagined and although it doesn't meet every single thing on our check list we got far more than we expected. We were able to get hardwood floors on the entire main level and hope to upgrade some of the other floors along the line. Our first big purchase after moving will be to fence in the yard for our pups, Libby and Grover. What smaller concessions have you had to make in order to achieve your bigger goals?