Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Moving???

Well, we may be entering a new chapter in our lives soon. Things are shaping up so far for moving to a new subdivision in the northern part of Niceville. Seth's commute to work will go from a very stressful and often frustrating 50 mins down to less than 10 mins. My commute should stay about the same for days when I drive to Pensacola and should go from 35 mins down to less than 5 mins on days when I work in Niceville (right now that is about once/week). We would be much closer to Seth's parents and also closer to the kids' sporting events. And walking distance from our house would be the north part of Turkey Creek park with very nice walkways, picnic areas and a canoe and kayak launch. Yes, that means we wouldn't have to lug our inflatable rafts those 1.5 miles and our float trips would be twice as long. We would just need to arrange for a car to be parked at the southern part of Turkey Creek to bring us back home. And our drive to church would only increase about another 10 minutes, so no issues there. Here are a few exterior pictures of a house that will be similar to ours. Same floor plan, but our house will have a different exterior design (= elevation) and the colors will be different too.

It will have an unfinished walk-out basement with room for a large bedroom, walk-in closet, full size bathroom, storage/pantry area, small kitchen, large game room, and then accessible only from the outside is a built-in storage area for lawnmower and yard toys or tools.

The backyard won't be fully cleared, it is partially wooded, and then behind that is a protected area that will remain wooded - so we won't ever have to worry about new construction blocking or destroying the natural view.

We'll only have to worry about our kids wandering off and "exploring" and getting lost in the woods or bitten by snakes and such...eeks.
Here are a few pictures of the park that will be right in our neighborhood, in fact you have to come into our subdivision in order to turn into the park that is on the right. We could have the kids' birthday parties right there!