Upstairs...
Starting at the top, left to right:
1. View looking down the stairs into foyer
2. Looking upstairs
3. Full bath -- with tub & shower, cabinet sink
4-5. Master bedroom
6. Bedroom 2 -- this will probably be Josiah's room
7. Bedroom 3 -- It's larger, but it will be the baby's room
since it's right next to the master bedroom.

Downstairs...
Starting at the top, from left to right:
1. Stairwell -- I love the open banister that goes all the way up!
2. Dining room
3. Full bath -- stand up shower, cabinet sink
4. Office area
5. Kitchen looking through the dining room door
6. Alternate kitchen view
7-8. Living room views
9. Laundry area is 7x14.
10. Other side of laundry area.

Here are some pictures to help you get a little taste of what it looks like. They don't do it justice at all, but hopefully it will help.

Some of the details that the property features: High Speed Internet lines, Cable Available, Dishwasher, Electric flat top range, Microwave, Refrigerator, 2 year old carpet and vinyl floors, 2-zone heat pump, central air as well as forced warm air gas. There's main floor laundry room with washer and dryer connections, vinyl siding, vinyl tilt windows, huge storage building, on and off street parking. Inside features 3 bedrooms upstairs, 2 full baths (one upstairs, one downstairs, foyer, living room, kitchen, separate dining room, and office area. :)

Long Time...No Post...

Well, as I am writing this we are in the process of getting a new home. No, it's not the one with all the pictures that were posted before. We looked at many more houses since then and even put an offer on another before finding the one that God had just for us. I'll tell you more about that in a minute.

We are all doing well despite our hectic lives the last few weeks. Jay is loving his job at Bridges, I'm finding little pockets of time to continue servicing my Mary Kay customers and meet lots of new women, and Josiah is learning and growing everyday and is just so much fun!

Pregnancy is going great -- I'm 24 weeks along... feeling much bigger than I appear. (This picture was taken almost 5 weeks ago -- I'll have to post a new one soon.) Several friends had been teasing me, asking when I was going to start looking pregnant. :) Every doctor's visit brings good reports though -- "baby sister" as we call her, has a strong heartbeat and is moving around a lot. She especially seems to like any kind of music -- but the louder the better! We were at a praise and worship concert last week and she was about to jump out of my belly! :)

Okay, so on to the house. Before I say anything more though, I want to give all praise and glory to our Father in Heaven who is so faithful and true not only make promises to us, but to also keep them. He is our provider and sustainer and the giver of all good things. His hand has been so evident in our house hunting adventure and I am so thankful for all the lessons I have learned in this incredible journey of faith. Jay and I, being the non-fixer-upper-type, had thought from the very beginning that our ideal house would be one that would only require painting the rooms and changing the fixtures to fit our design tastes. As we started looking, we began to see that a house like that would most likely have to be a new house, and all of those were out of our price range. So, we resolved that our wishful thinking would be just that. Also, it was seeming like the houses that had all of the updates that we wanted were also out of our price range and we would have to increase our ideal purchase price to get what we wanted. Well, God knew all along that if we were patient and trusted in Him, he had the perfect house just for us. I don't know how many houses we ended up looking at, but after putting offers on 3 different houses and none of them working out, I was starting to feel as though we may have to continue living in our apartment until next Spring when the market starts to get going again. God had better plans in mind than that for us. On Monday, we found out that the house we looked at on Friday didn't accept our offer. I really fell in love with that house and hearing that news was probably the most disappointing news of this entire search. Our realtor had a couple more houses for us to see though and was able to get us in them on Monday afternoon. That's when we found it. The perfect house for us. EVERYTHING has been updated -- from the heating/cooling system down to the outlet covers. It's unbelievable. And here's the best news yet. We put an offer on it for our ideal purchase price --- and they accepted it!!! They didn't even counter offer! God is soooo good. Blessed be the name of the Lord! He is greatly to be praised.

We've been searching for houses for a little over a month and this is one of our favorites. We thought we'd share the pictures with you. It's really cute, has a nice deck, off-street parking, and a large fenced back yard.

The basement...

The finished side -- 30x11 -- would be used as a den/Mary Kay studio. The stairs connect up the to kitchen.

As you walk through the door, you enter the unfinshed side. It's painted with cement paint, it is where the washer/dryer connections are, has a utility sink, and LOTS and LOTS of storage room. This side is also where the exterior entrance is.

Here's upstairs...

Josiah's room would be the one pictured on the left. It's 10x12.

The bathroom is so cute. The sink is low enough to the floor that Josiah wouldn't even have to use a stool to brush his teeth or wash his hands.

The second room is really too small for a bedroom (8x12). Jay has plans to use it as the library/bonus room.

There's a little cove at the top of the stairs where Josiah's standing. And you can see that the stairs go down to the dining area.

Here's the kitchen. The dishwasher and refrigerator would stay with the house. The dining area is where Josiah's standing in the 3rd picture. You'll notice the large standing cabinet in the fourth picture -- I'm guessing the previous owners used it as a pantry. (I think I'd do something a little different for food storage though. I takes up too much room.) Right around the corner past the refrigerator are the stairs that go up to the second floor bedrooms and bathroom.

The bathroom is currently painted orange and white. Of course that would be one of the first things that we would change. It has a pedestal sink -- so there is no cabinet under the sink, but there is a nice size linen/storage closet with room enough for even a laundry basket in the bottom.

The Master bedroom is 11x12. (Pictured on top.)

The other bedroom is what we would use for the baby. It's 9x11 and right beside the Master bedroom. (Pictured on the bottom.)

The living room is smaller, but really cute. The fireplace adds warmth to the room -- figuratively and literally :) I love the arched doorway.

"What are you lookin' at?"

Josiah's personality comes out at our friend Caroline's wedding reception (October 2005).

It's so fun to have a reason to get dolled up!

Here's a picture of me (Jamie) and Jay posing after my Mary Kay "Black and White Ball" in January.

We were checking out Jonathan and Adrian's blog, and in order to send a post to them we had to first register a site for ourselves. With that said, here's to any and all future blogs that flow from the collective experiences of the family "Wrenn". May this be a place where we can share some of our "going's on" in hopes of making the world seem a tad bit smaller. Enjoy!

Above: Jonathan, Adrian & Josiah (March 2004)