Inside

Welcome!
Photos: The Inside of the House

Outside

Pretty much we love this house cuz it's got a big pool!
Photos: The Outside of our House

Garage and Basement

2 car garage--Room for both of our cars. Pro: no more cleaning off our cars in the winter. Con: now we get to buy a snowblower and clear the driveway ourselves.

 

Workshop ready for all of the household renovations.

Plenty of storage space in the basement for all of the "stuff"...we would like to eventually convert this into a rec room complete with a bar and billiards table....or a treadmill, TV and sofa....there's a lot of potential!

Painting the Master Bedroom

Before and After.
Check out the pictures from before we moved in and then the pictures of the wonderful paint job we did!
Photos: Painting the Master Bedroom
Before:

After we moved in:  painting

After:

New Laundry Room appliances installed

Before: Old machines with poorly built shelves above them.


After:  Our wonderful new machines.
The LG front load washer is amazing.
Allison's mom gave us her old dryer--awesome!
We love the laundry room now.

Empty condo! June 24, 2009

We left the condo on Wednesday the 24th and stayed over at Brian's mom's house in Niskayuna until Friday--the day of the closings. For Wednesday thru Friday, the truck got to sit in the driveway at the Hemphills new house....only a couple miles down the road from our NEW house in Clifton Park!

Moving out of the condo

The weekend before closing on the sale of the condo and the purchase of the new house, we packed up a 26 foot Penske truck! It sat on the street full of our stuff until we officially moved out a few days later. We had lots of help from family and friends. Thank goodness, cuz we actually had a lot of junk stuffed away in the 900 square foot condo!

In the market for a house!

We went to see 5 houses the day before Mother's Day.  Loved this one!

The "pink room" which contained a doll collection was really what sold us on this house.

How can you say no to a pink living room?
Photos: Checking out houses with our realtor--here's our fave

So, the story goes:  we decided to put a bid on this house Monday morning.  Called our realtor and she told us the house went under contract Sunday night!  Ahhh....we were bummed.  Went househunting the next weekend and continued to hunt for the right home for us.  We found another great house and put in a bid only to find out that someone else also bid on the house.  48 hours later, we found out the owners flipped a coin to decide which bid they preferred and we LOST the coin toss.  At first we were bummed, but then another 48 hours later, as Allison scoured the real estate listings online, she discovered that the first house was BACK on the market.  It was literally listed as "Back on the Market".  Awesome.  So, we contacted our realtor to put an offer on the house and by 7pm our offer was accepted! We were so happy.

For Sale!

Here is the condo....we put it on the market on 5/3/09

Photos: Condo on the Market

The good news is that we had about 6 people interested immediately and then it sold after 5 days.
We never even had an open house.  Crazy!  Bailey hung out in his crate for most of the showings and we're still trying to find out what he heard people say.

Married November 9, 2008

Photos: Wedding Album
Photos: Guests and Family