We bought a house...

We've lived in Surprise for 6 years. We moved here 6 years ago thinking we'd be here until Jeremiah graduated the academy. Our house would sell, then we would move to Peoria. After our house didn't sell and we got into that whole mess we decided to just rent in Surprise for a year or two. So we rented our first house in Surprise.

After 2 years in that house we figured we would be in Surprise a little longer and need to a little bit bigger space with a yard to play in. We we found a new rental. It all worked out because our current landlords were trying to figure out how to get us out because they needed the house back for one of their kids. When I called and told her we wanted to leave she cried. She said it was an answer to her prayer. On to our next rental.

We lived in the second rental for about two more years. We like it there. Nice neighbors, good yard and more space for kids to play. We figured we would live there until we bought a house. After about 2 years out landlord called us and wanted to move into the house. Her husband was going to be living abroad in a place they didn't want to bring their children so they needed a house for about a year. At the same time friends of ours were getting ready to leave and asked us if we wanted to rent their house. So it worked out for our landlord to move back into her house and for us to move into our friend's house. On to the next rental.

We were in the last rental for just under 2 years. The market had changed a bit and we were able to buy. We put in an offer on a house in Peoria. Everything was going well until there was a snag in paperwork regarding our old house. We had to stop plans and push back buying a house until 10 months later. After waiting we decided to look again. We looked in Peoria and house prices were higher than we wanted to pay so we started looking in Surprise. We found our house and everything went pretty smooth and we closed on it in the early spring. Hopefully we will be here more than 2 years....