We are closing on a lot in, of all places, Saraland, on Saturday. My entire life I swore I would never live there. It is amazing how your needs/ wants change once you have a baby and another one on the way. The idea of having my parents and Ryan's so close is actually one I like to think about!
We love the house we are in now, but we knew when we bought it we wouldn't be here forever Once our house in mid town sold we had two weeks to find a new house to move into- before we lost the contract and before Garrison decided to arrive. So we found our West Mobile house and liked it, but always new we would look back and think of 208 Pinehill Drive as our home.
Our mid town house was our newly wed house. When we were dating we would always drive around Mid Town and I would beg Ryan to buy us a house there. (My grandparents lived in the Springhill area growing up and I had always wanted to live close to their old neighborhood). Ryan, of course, hated it- small yards, houses close together. But he always told me that one day he would buy me a house in midtown. And somehow I finally talked him into it!
Pinehill was were we spent all of our first holidays, had friends engagement parties and showers, had many fights, found out we were having a baby, proudly displayed our brand new wedding photos, and had a lot of laughs. Our entire family thought we were nuts for buying it. The Pinehill house is by no means anything fancy, is on the outskirts of what is considered the "nice" part of midtown, was built right beside a lovely drainage ditch which the city tried to mask by putting up an even lovelier chain length fence, and stood proudly at 850 square feet- counting the front porch. But we LOVED IT! We loved to talk about the other families that called 208 Pinehill home before us. What their lives had been like, the holidays they spent there, and the memories they made. In just the short time we lived there we have so many fun times in that house! Mainly ones made while trying to fix it up! Like me and Ryan stuffing ourselves, a garbage can of cement, and needless tiling tools into a bathroom the size of a shoebox, to try to lay tile ourselves to save money- needless to say we called a professional. Another HILARIOUS memory was Ryan loosing his mind on the dogs that kept us up all night next door! I still do not know why he thought hollering at them at midnight would make them stop barking. "they are just dogs sir, dogs will bark" haha ryan.
It will be sad to see our West Mobile house go, we have had a lot of wonderful times here also. I don't even want to think about leaving Garrison's and the new baby's nursery. But we knew we would be moving from here the day we moved in. Still, it will be some time before the move actually happens and we look forward to our adventures still to come in West Mobile.
