May 2nd this will be our new home and the best part about it is we are moving back to Bloomington!! YAY!! I guess I better go back to January when everything started. I have worked as a loan officer for Busey Bank in Pekin for 6 yrs and on Jan. 15th we were told the office would be closing in 90 days. We were all shocked by the news and with it being a small office we are all like family. It was such an emotional day/weeks, I was the only one in the office that was going to keep their job and I felt extremely guilty for that. I would have to relocate and they gave me the option that I could either transfer over to one of the Peoria or Bloomington offices. At first I thought well thats an easy choice I will just drive back and forth to Peoria and maybe work from home a couple days a week. Then we sort of threw around the idea of how nice would it be if we could move back to Bloomington-we could be back closer to our family and friends.
That brings us to the beginning of February when Ryan happened to mention that he ran into an old co-worker the end of Dec. when they were out looking at the house listed for sale across the street. I guess they jokingly told him if we put our house on the market we needed to let them know b/c they loved the subdivision and loved the outside look of our house. So we just thought to ourselves maybe we should give them a call and see if they want to come by and see it-you never know, right?!? We called them and they were beyond excited especially b/c they had just got an offer on their house and hadn't found anything yet. We really went into the showing with pretty low expectations-they have a pretty large family and they lived in a huge farm house so I didn't think our house would be big enough for their needs. Boy were we wrong they LOVED it and made us an offer we couldn't refuse! I think the next couple of days we were just in shock we couldn't believe that we really sold our house! We really weren't sure what we wanted to do, we also own a lot in Groveland and we were planning to start building in the Fall of 2013 so we were torn on what was the best decision for our family. We finally agreed that it only made sense for us to try and find something in Bloomington/Normal or build there. So the search begins and FINALLY after 4 LONG weeks we found and fell in love with this home. We have never felt so blessed, I have always been a true believer that everything happens for a reason and you have to trust in God that he will lead you down the right path. I just never thought in a MILLION years that in 1 year we would go thru so many changes. We are very excited to start the next "chapter" in our story!!
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